Royal Icing

I had to enlist the help of my 9 year old to pick which page to destroy today. There were many options. We made a gingerbread house this afternoon. It was more like a shack or derelict cabin, a gingerbread house architect I am not. 

We made a huge mess of royal icing all over the kitchen, which is really the purpose of gingerbread houses. So we could have used the "Make a Mess and clean it up" page. 

But we debated about between the "Cover this page with sticky things" page or the "Cover this page with white things." 

My son found this page this disturbing because the page is already white. It makes for a very boring page, regardless of how messy it is. 

My son squished the royal icing on, but I smeared it around and sprinkled the dry icing on as well. (more white things) 

Family bonding moment achieved! 




Meanwhile, my son has returned to decorating our gingerbread shack while I write this...

He's making little piles of poo outside the shack with chocolate chips. 

Christmas with a 9 year old boy rocks. 

Even messy and kind wrecked, it's a pretty boring page.
Kid was right!