Gingerbread houses have been a Christmas tradition for years. Families and friends usually get together with a bunch of house making materials and become architects for a day. Maybe you’ve made your fair share of traditional looking gingerbread houses and want to take a different route this year – whether that be using nonconventional materials or creating a nonconventional house. Having the big extravagantly detailed house is always great but it gets old after awhile. We understand your dilemma and have already solved it for you. Take a look at some of the nontraditional gingerbread house ideas below to help get you started.
The gum sticks can make a brick wall and are perfect for a layered looking roof.
It’ll make the one little house you made look like it’s in its own world.
You can use dried bananas, raisins, goldfish, anything you can think of!
This one was also done with graham crackers.
And then decorate with walnuts and other healthy snacks.
Your work would definitely be appreciated afterwards.
Maybe sometimes they need a boat to float over all the melted ice.
It doesn’t even have to be a boot, maybe you could even recreate your favorite sneaker in gingerbread form.
This looks like it would be way less time consuming as all you really need is a small red house and then two gingerbread characters.
Show everyone what your dream house would look like by using your imagination with gingerbread and all the little decorating items you can get your hands on.
