Primary Classroom Shortcut
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We HIGHLY recommend using empty cereal boxes, milk cartons, and other small cardboard as the structures for your buildings. Then use a hot glue gun or royal icing to glue the graham crackers to the boxes for a gingerbread appearance. For example, check out this Target store created by 2nd grade students. There is a cardboard box as the base structure, and then students used colored royal icing to adhere the graham crackers.
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Makerspace Challenges
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For classes who want to make the construction a little more challenging, check out this Allrecipes.com video showing how to build graham cracker gingerbread houses.
Code a Sphero and drive it through your town
Design and construct the community with MinecraftEDU
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Light up your community using Makey Makey
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WEBLINK - Makey Makey Simple Circuits Challenge
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Try adding paper circuits to your Gingerbread community
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WEBLINK - Holiday Paper Circuits
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Or create circuits with littleBits
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WEBLINK - Gingerbread Hack: a littleBits invention
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You could even use Squishy Circuits for Gingerbread people in your community.
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WEBLINK - Squishy Circuit People Instructions
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A great coding challenge for your Gingerbread Community would be to create an Ozobot touring path. Challenge students to create a "walking tour" of the community using the Ozobots as the robot tour guide.
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WEBLINK - Drawing with Ozobot
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Another twist on the gingerbread community idea would be to create everything out of cardboard and use art skills to create the gingerbread appearance.
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WEBLINK - Tiny Cardboard Houses
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For High School students, a REAL challenge would be to design and program an Arduino Musical Christmas Light Program
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Or consider make your community virtual using CoSpacesEDU or Scratch!
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