{"id":339,"date":"2023-12-15T15:26:44","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T15:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/?p=339"},"modified":"2023-12-15T17:24:54","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T17:24:54","slug":"advent-day-15-make-a-gingerbread-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/15\/advent-day-15-make-a-gingerbread-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Advent Day 15 &#8211; Make a Gingerbread House"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s Gingerbread Day!  I&#8217;ve been looking forward to this one.  My daughter has been talking about making a gingerbread house since the start of December.  We will make our real gingerbread house tonight after school, but to help get us in the gingerbread mood (in a less messy way), I had a special surprise for the kids this morning.  I made some handmade gingerbread blocks.  I think they turned out so adorable, so I was really excited for the kids to discover them this morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9358-scaled-e1702652020154-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-327\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9358-scaled-e1702652020154-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9358-scaled-e1702652020154-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9358-scaled-e1702652020154-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9358-scaled-e1702652020154-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9358-scaled-e1702652020154-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested in how I made them, you can read about it <a href=\"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/15\/diy-gingerbread-blocks\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The elf was hanging out with the new blocks, plus a few other handmade goodies (not by me) that I just received from the second-hand toy store <a href=\"http:\/\/wonderandkind.ca\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"http:\/\/wonderandkind.ca\">Wonder + Kind<\/a> (Little Step Co. stackers and Island Peg Doll pegs and houses).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/DSC05930-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/DSC05930-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/DSC05930-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/DSC05930-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/DSC05930-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/DSC05930-1-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/DSC05924-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/DSC05924-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/DSC05924-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/DSC05924-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/DSC05924-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/DSC05924-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/DSC05924-scaled.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Let the building begin!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Gingerbread Day! I&#8217;ve been looking forward to this one. My daughter has been talking about making a gingerbread house since the start of December. We will make our real gingerbread house tonight after school, but to help get us in the gingerbread mood (in a less messy way), I had a special surprise for &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/15\/advent-day-15-make-a-gingerbread-house\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Advent Day 15 &#8211; Make a Gingerbread House&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18,33,36,37,35,34,6],"class_list":["post-339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-activityadvent","tag-gingerbread","tag-gingerbreadblocks","tag-gingerbreadblocksdiy","tag-gingerbreaddiy","tag-gingerbreadtoys","tag-kidsadvent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":355,"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions\/355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}