Gingerbread House

Room 18 made a big gingerbread house for Christmas.  First we painted the big cardboard box Mrs Bear's new dishwasher came in.  We used several coats of brown paint to cover all the signage on the box.  Mr Want loaned us a big stanley knife to cut a door that could open and shut.  Next we attached candy canes to the outside walls using wire.  We glued all kinds of lolly wrappers to the walls as well.  Then it was time to make the solar light.  We filled a water bottle with water and stuck in through the roof, so that half was on top of the roof catching the sunlight, and half was inside lighting the inside of the gingerbread house.  People who live in shanty towns with no electricity use this technology to light their homes as well.

We left our gingerbread house outside by our library so that we could share it with other children as a kind of Christmas present to the Cockle Bay.  Here are some Year 1 and 2 people taking a look at Morning Tea.