Miniature Christmas House

Materials Needed:
7 Graham Crackers
Frosting for Glue (recipe below)
Assorted small candies for decoration
Ribbon


Frosting:
1/2 pound confectioner's sugar
3 Tbs. butter/margarine
1/2 tsp. vanilla
1 1/2- 2 Tbs. milk

Mix all the ingredients together until smooth and spreadable, not runny.
Add more sugar if too runny.

If you have a pastry bag, place frosting in bag and use a small tip. If not you can use a zip lock bag cutting a small hole in the corner.

Place one graham cracker flat on the table, squeeze a little frosting around all edges. You may need an extra pair of hands. Place one cracker on each side standing up, so that it now looks like a box with no top.

Carefully squeeze more frosting on all outside corners top to bottom and around the bottom of the box.

Let stand for a short while to let frosting harden a little. This will make working with the roof a little easier.

Now squeeze frosting on two of the top edges of the box and place the last two graham crackers in a V shape on as the roof. Looks like a triangle on a box now from the side. May over hang if you can get the frosting to hold for you.

Squeeze frosting along the top of the roof where crackers join. Let stand again until frosting hardens a little.

Now comes the fun part-with left over frosting cover the roof to look like snow (two sides are left open). Then squeeze small amounts of frosting on the house as "glue" for candy pieces to decorate. You can use the frosting to add things like doors and windows.

If you'd like to make this an ornament, after project is totally dry, string a ribbon through the open side of the roof and hang on Christmas tree.

If you want to do this project with young children, you might want to make the base house ahead of time, glueing the corners from the inside-and let it harden. Then turn them loose with frosting and small candies to do the decorating.