Craft Kit Review: Gingerbread House Activity
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spiraliciousOfficial Kit Name: Gingerbread House Activity
Original Price: $2
Age Rating on Package: 3+
Description on Package: 3 paper houses, foil sticker sheet, twine (24in)
What Was Actually in the Package: 3 small paper bags cut to be house shaped with a gingerbread house design outlined on the front to be colored in (approximately 5in x 4in x 2in); a foil sticker sheet full of images of candy, gingerbread people and animals, and a tree; 24in of red & white twine; a package of 9 red pom poms; and 4in tube of white glue.
Notes: There were no instructions aside from the computer rendered image on the packaging, not that is really needed it. I am fairly certain the pom poms and the glue were not supposed to come with it. I used a different decorating approach with each house. The first one, I decorated everything that looked like it was supposed to be piped on icing with white India ink and I did the dots, hearts, and candy cane striping with a red acrylic paint pen. I filled in the windows using a silver paint pen. And I decided to glue one of the red pom poms on the door knob. It's very sudate, but looks good.
With the second house, I tried to decorate it it more like a kid would using more colors of paint pens and as many stickers as I could fit on there. I had meant to try colored pencils or crayons on this one to see how they did on the bag material the house was made of, but they were not accessible at the time. The white paint pen did not get nearly the amount of coverage the India ink did. The stickers were surprisingly perfectly sized for decorating the house. Usually with these kinds of kits, they are either way too big or too small.
On the third house, I did pretty much the same thing as on the second house, except I stuck with a red and green stripping theme.
All three house came out good. There was exactly enough twine to tie all three houses shut. I have almost all the pom poms and glue leftover and 2 of the bigger stickers. It was a lot of fun. While they are intended to be shelf sitters, they would make good goodies bags.
Original Price: $2
Age Rating on Package: 3+
Description on Package: 3 paper houses, foil sticker sheet, twine (24in)
What Was Actually in the Package: 3 small paper bags cut to be house shaped with a gingerbread house design outlined on the front to be colored in (approximately 5in x 4in x 2in); a foil sticker sheet full of images of candy, gingerbread people and animals, and a tree; 24in of red & white twine; a package of 9 red pom poms; and 4in tube of white glue.
Notes: There were no instructions aside from the computer rendered image on the packaging, not that is really needed it. I am fairly certain the pom poms and the glue were not supposed to come with it. I used a different decorating approach with each house. The first one, I decorated everything that looked like it was supposed to be piped on icing with white India ink and I did the dots, hearts, and candy cane striping with a red acrylic paint pen. I filled in the windows using a silver paint pen. And I decided to glue one of the red pom poms on the door knob. It's very sudate, but looks good.
With the second house, I tried to decorate it it more like a kid would using more colors of paint pens and as many stickers as I could fit on there. I had meant to try colored pencils or crayons on this one to see how they did on the bag material the house was made of, but they were not accessible at the time. The white paint pen did not get nearly the amount of coverage the India ink did. The stickers were surprisingly perfectly sized for decorating the house. Usually with these kinds of kits, they are either way too big or too small.
On the third house, I did pretty much the same thing as on the second house, except I stuck with a red and green stripping theme.
All three house came out good. There was exactly enough twine to tie all three houses shut. I have almost all the pom poms and glue leftover and 2 of the bigger stickers. It was a lot of fun. While they are intended to be shelf sitters, they would make good goodies bags.
