Students build gingerbread houses in exploration lab

Second-graders designed and built their own gingerbread houses for the holiday season.

Mrs. Diana Giardino's students built the edible homes in Marie Curie's new exploration lab, where teachers can take their classes to conduct lessons and activities related to the school's magnet theme of engineering and communications. Mrs. Flichtbeil, the school's media specialist, helped out.

To construct the gingerbread houses, students used various edible materials; icing was used as an adhesive to hold the gingerbread pieces together, pretzels were used as windows, gumdrops and m&ms  were used as doorknobs and decorations, marshmallows were used to make snowmen, and many different candies, including peppermint, were used for landscaping.

This project also connected with "The City by Design" program that the students recently attended at The Saratoga Children's Museum. Students were then allowed to take their gingerbread houses home!

This was an exciting and educational activity that not only enhanced our magnet theme, but the holiday spirit as well!

To view a photo gallery of the project, click here.