Gingerbread Train

We wanted to do a special Christmas craft with Dougie. We had bought a gingerbread house last year but never got around to building it. This year, we decided that we would try something Dougie was a bit more interested in - trains!

So, I bought this kit.



And Scott and Dougie went to town building it.

First, they had to break apart the pieces


Dougie couldn't understand why he could just eat the cookies and be done


We won't get into how many were tasted but Scott did manage to get the train assembled


Dougie was then in charge of the decorating. They started with the roof (Dougie was very serious about the entire thing).




Then we moved on to applying the "wheels"


Dougie didn't really get where the "wheels" should go - so he put them everywhere


If Scott didn't have a piece ready for Dougie, he applied more candy to the roof - we had to add more icing to hold all the candy that was put up there.


After some instruction from Dad (he did those straight ones in the front), Dougie tried a different type of candy


He even tried to apply some icing himself


Remember, this is how it's supposed to look


And here is our finished product