These little gingerbread houses are so much fun to make! Just like making a real gingerbread house the first thing you do is gather, or in our case make and pre-bake, all of your candy decorations.
We’ll also pre-bake liquid bakeable Sculpey in the color Pearl to resemble icicles dripping off the roof of our house.
Then it’s time to make our gingerbread “cookies” that will form the body of the house. Just a couple simple techniques will make these truly resemble baked gingerbread cookies. The fun part comes after that, the decorating!
One thing I neglected to mention in the video is that after I glued my prebaked “icicles” to my roof I went back in with some more of the liquid bakeable clay and filled in all the gaps around the edges before baking one more time. This gave a much more smooth and finished appearance.
Tools and Materials:
- Polymer clay in shades of brown for gingerbread
- Polymer clay in colors for gumdrops
- Translucent Clay, I prefer Pardo art clay
- White and red clay for peppermints and candy canes
- Liquid bakeable clay in Pearl
- Clay blade
- Acrylic roller
- pasta machine
- Needle tool (mine is from this pick/probe set)
- Toothbrush
- Chalk pastels in reddish brown and dark brown
- Sculpey cutter set
- Polybonder glue
- Battery operated tea light
Enjoy the video and happy creating!
Watch the Gingerbread House Ornaments-Polymer Clay Christmas Ornaments Series video at YouTube.
Oh, so cute and realistic gingerbread houses : they are like in children’s tales with the little details and the lights inside 🙂
Marie
Thanks, Marie! They are rather charming. 🙂
I can honestly say I’ve never made a gingerbread house as neat as either of these. Nice!
Glad you like them! The only bummer is you can’t eat the decorations while decorating. 😀
In the video, you said you would leave the measurements for the pieces of the house. I didnt see them here or in the description box. Could I get those, please? Thanks!
I love how you premade the snow coming off the roof.
Hi Elizabeth,
I’m glad you like the project, and I’m so sorry for not including the promised dimensions. I’ll have to dig those houses out of the boxes of Christmas decorations in the attic, so it might be a day or so, but I’ll get them to you. 🙂
Happy creating!
Sandy