SATURDAY ART ADVENTURES

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FREE. ART. FUN. FAMILY!

> 2nd Saturday of every month 
> 1-3pm
> FREE
> No registration (adult supervision required)
Join us every second Saturday of the month at the Dahl Arts Center for an adventure in art! FREE family-oriented art activities and tours of the galleries are fun and educational.

December Saturday Art Adventures - Home Sweet Home Virtual Gingerbread House Building Event!

We are all out of our Gingerbread House Building Kits! But if you have the supplies, you can still follow along!

How do you make your house?
We'll show you! You will receive step by step instructions inside your kit (we also have them on this page) and can follow along with our instructional video (see below).

Send us your pictures!
We'd love to see your amazing creations! E-mail us a picture at education@thedahl.org!

​Instructional Video:
Step by Step Gingerbread House Building Instructions

THIS GINGERBREAD HOUSE KIT WAS NOT ASSEMBLED IN A COMMERCIAL KITCHEN. IT HAS BEEN BEEN ASSEMBLED IN A KITCHEN THAT MAY ALSO PROCESS COMMON FOOD ALLERGENS SUCH AS TREE NUTS, PEANUTS, EGGS, SOY, WHEAT, FISH, AND CRUSTACEAN SHELLFISH. THIS GINGERBREAD HOUSE KIT CONTAINS POTENTIAL CHOKING HAZARDS. PLEASE SUPERVISE CHILDREN WHEN ASSEMBLING. 

  1. Let’s make our very own gingerbread house using graham crackers. We need to use a knife to cut our gingerbread houses- so grab an adult to help you!
  2. We have to be very gentle with our graham crackers! We don’t want them to break!
  3. Let’s prepare our stations. We need:
    • To wash our hands and make a clean working station!
    • A plate to make our gingerbread house on!
    • A serrated knife to cut our graham crackers! (grab your adult now!)
    • A napkin to keep our hands and station clean!
    • A good attitude and holiday cheer!
  4. Next, carefully take out your graham crackers and place them  on their plastic baggie next to your plate.
  5. Take out your piping bag of frosting. This will be the “glue that holds our house together!
  6. You have 5 graham crackers. We need 4 to make the house, but we have an extra incase something happens. If nothing breaks- then enjoy your snack. 
  7. Break two of the graham cracker rectangles in half to create four squares.
  8. Now you should have 4 squares, and two rectangles. 
  9. Have an adult use a serrated knife, in a slow sawing motion to cut the big rectangle graham crackers. You will cut in a straight line from the middle of the short side to the middle of the long side. Do this on both sides of the same end of the graham cracker. This will be a side of your house. It will look like a triangle on 
  10. top of a square. Do this to both big rectangles. 
  11. Now you will assemble the structure of your house!. 
  12. Cut off the tip of the piping bag.
  13. First, pipe frosting onto a side of your square graham cracker, lay the frosting side down on the plate so the cracker  is standing up.
  14. Now we will attach the side of the house. 
  15. Keep holding your graham cracker upright.
  16. With the graham cracker that we cut, pipe frosting onto the short side, opposite the point we made.
  17. Stand it up touching perpendicular our first wall, use the frosting as “glue” to attach the two sides together.
  18. Once you have assembled and piped together the base structure of the house (two squares opposite each other, and two pointed crackers opposite each other) We will attach our roof of the house. 
  19. Using the remaining two squares, frost them on top of the open spaces where our roof should go.
  20. Now, we can attach the candy and decorate the house with our frosting.
  21. Keep this in a cool place so the frosting doest melt.
  22. Have fun decorating and have a great holiday!


THANK YOU SPONSORS!

Saturday Art Adventures is FREE due to the support of US Bancorp Foundation,
​Security First Bank, Gwendolyn Stearns Foundation, and contributions made by people like you.