Gingerbread is a baked treat that dates back to the Middle Ages. It is thought to have first appeared in the U.S. in the nineteenth century, when the Swiss monks of St. Meinrad Archabbey in Indiana baked gingerbread on holidays, and gave it to the sick.
Celebrating Christmas offers a potpourri of gingerbread house advice...
I'm trying really hard not to say "a picture is worth a thousand words," but if you are fishing for gingerbread inspiration, what better way to find it than at this collection of more than 600 gingerbread house photos?
To add a little computer fun to today's topic, this pick is an online game.
JustGingerbread.com is my pick of the week because of the simple printable patterns (in two sizes), abundance of building tips, and the illustrated step-by-step house assembly instructions.
This fourteen-page PDF from King Arthur Flour offers the most detailed gingerbread house building instructions I found online.
This week's topic bundles two holidays into one column, as I review craft sites looking for the best Christmas (December 25) and Hanukkah (December 25 - January 2) crafts. For those wanting to learn a little about these holidays, I like the one-page artic
With more than fifty original Christmas crafts, All Free Crafts is quite a find.
Amazing Moms is a mix of both free craft ideas and links to craft kits for purchase.
"These crafts projects use materials found around the house, like egg cartons, cardboard, paper, boxes, string, crayons, paint, glue, etc.
Family Fun's Christmas mini-site has a terrific selection of illustrated crafts, many of which include comments added by other readers The craft projects are sprinkled through many sections, but the main ones are in New This Year, Christmas Decorations, C
This page is a listing of over one-hundred holiday-related craft projects from the HGTV network.
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