Reading is Sweet (in a gingerbread house)
Hi friends!
As I promised, I snapped a few photos today of our cozy reading spots for the winter holidays. Here’s what we have going.
Do you remember our reading tent? It goes with our normal camping theme for the year, and it’s been a big hit!
I added a large cardboard box, cut out so that it formed a large, inverted “V” across the top of the tent, draped brown butcher paper over the “V,” and added frosting stripes with white paint.
Can you see the box on top, giving the roof its shape? I used the huge binder clips to attach the box to the tent. I painted the frosting on the house after school, so it could dry before the next morning’s classes.
After the frosting was painted on, I glued on colorful circles to look like candy.
It’s no architectural masterpiece, but it’s a fun reading spot! (The binder clips have come undone during the course of the day, and the “peppermint” over the entry way seems to be at half mast. But gravity tends to keep the roof and paper walls in place all day.)
Another cozy little space in our library is our “fireplace” area. It looks like this.
You have such awesome ideas. I hope I can get away with doing a pvc pipe structure next year, so I can have a gingerbread house. Your fireplace area makes me envious. I’m pretty sure I can that off, next year. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for your comment, SweetP. I hope you’ll share your photos of your pvc pipe structure. That would be a fun project to work on in the summer!
Cari
Thanks for the idea! I ran with it for a gingerbread unit we were doing.
http://dammitminnie.blogspot.com/2014/12/yeaaaah-ive-been-busy.html
You’re welcome! Thanks for your comment!
Cari