How to draw a gingerbread house?

Food is difficult to draw because, as a rule, it does not have its own recognizable appearance, and looks like a person will decorate it. ( If you have never seen ice cream in a tube, then you will not guess what kind of cone filled with balls). On the other hand, food is often decorated very elegantly and richly. That is, there is a lot of room for the development of visual skills. How we drew cakes, I will tell you on occasion, but today we will talk about gingerbread houses. Or rather, of course, about the benefits of drawing a gingerbread house for the development of the hands and eye of children.

What is a gingerbread house anyway?

I once read a fairy tale about the children of a poor lumberjack, who, out of desperation, were taken by their parents to the forest to get rid of extra mouths. Wandering more often, the brother and sister came to the gingerbread house and began to eat it greedily. But then the hostess of the house, a witch, appeared. According to the law of the genre, the witch, although she was going to eat her prey, postponed the meal until tomorrow, and at night the children ran away. In addition, they had a dog with them, with its help the children managed to get to their home, and their parents had to take them back after an unsuccessful attempt to kill unnecessary eaters. So this story is about food. The content is very tragic, but somehow it happened that making gingerbread houses is even fashionable - especially before the New Year. I don’t see the connection here - in the fairy tale, the children were taken to the forest in the summer.

If you look on the Internet, then your eyes run wide - such delicious pictures of different houses!

Well, our goal is to decorate, not to eat, nevertheless, the children really like the theme.

Starter coloring-a simple frame of the house:

Coloring page for drawing - Gingerbread house

Cut out and pasted into an album. Here, in addition to careful cutting, the teaching goal is to accurately find the middle of the album sheet, circle the house with a pencil, like a template, and accurately glue it exactly into the outlined outline. It's not that simple, really.

Now let's do the construction work - draw the frames and jambs of the window. The goal is to accurately and consciously draw segments of straight lines parallel to the given ones. On the sides we will draw stylized saw cuts of logs. We fix the roof.

The base of the house is ready. Now we need to decorate. I did this: I drew a symmetrical pattern on the board, and left the students to either copy it or compose their own, but certainly complex and symmetrical.

Gingerbread house - drawing

I note that if such a condition is not set, then the children draw ... guess what?

Lines! Lines of squares, lines of triangles and ovals ... hearts ... five-pointed stars, emoticons.

We have to return them to fairy-tale reality and explain that we are not in an arithmetic or writing lesson and that it is not fashionable to decorate gingerbread houses with letter elements.

We think it's time for a new lesson on what kids (including site admins) love to do during the holidays right after the New Year. We will find out with you how to draw a gingerbread house step by step to immediately eat it! You will be able to decorate your gingerbread house not only with gingerbread, but with all your favorite sweets and your favorite candies in various shapes and sizes. The ones we used are our favorites - Skittles, lollipops and candy sticks. Traditional types of sweets for any occasion are chewing gum and ice cream. You can stuff your sweet gingerbread house with whatever you want this winter Christmas time! let's start draw a delicious gingerbread house right now.

Step 1.

The first thing you will draw is the shape of a simple round house. Draw the slopes for the roof and then also add a circle for the big lollipop.

Step 2

Start drawing the roof with icicle glaze details. The icing drips onto the ends of the roof in the same way that regular icicles do. Add a little candy to the roof.

Step 3

Now draw a pipe like ours, and add sweet striped candy sticks to it. A few more candies will come in handy on the pipe and roof.

Step 4

Now let's finish the roof of the gingerbread house. Add some Skittles or Bubbles to cover your roof and complete the sweet round window.

Step 5

Step 6

Draw yummy balls along the base of the house, then draw the door and frosting on it at the very top. Add more candies above the door, and draw stripes on the supporting pillars of the house.

Step 7

All that's left to do is draw the curved path that leads to the front door, and then draw the whirlpool shape of the lollipop on the lawn of our sweet holiday dream home. Erase the mistakes and extra guide lines.

Step 8

Depending on how your gingerbread house was decorated, your drawing should turn out sweet and beautiful to the envy of all friends and girlfriends. You definitely know and are able how to draw a sweet gingerbread house step by step. And we just have to paint it in colorful, juicy, bright and mouth-watering colors of sweets and lollipops!

Kitty sculpt a gingerbread house. Look how hard she tries - she even hung her pink tongue from zeal. And her apron is so neat, Christmas, red.

Girl catches gingerbread men playing poker in a gingerbread house! But the girl, judging by the expression of her cute face, is still that rascal herself!

A very dark gingerbread house. And the branches hang over it in an ominous purple color. And gingerbread, probably not tasty.

And this gingerbread house has little cupcakes like mushrooms. And also covered with sweet multi-colored glaze. And a candy track.

And in this gingerbread house live either Teletubbies or Pikachu. Or maybe both together. In any case, it is they who are sitting in the clearing.

That's how to build gingerbread houses - on gingerbread clouds! And then no kids are afraid of delicacy. And ice cream trees don't melt at the same time.

Probably the most natural magic gingerbread house. He squinted from old age and the window fell out. And the witch is also a gingerbread old woman ... I even feel sorry for her a little.

Along the marshmallow street, past the gingerbread houses for marmalade sweets. Like an illustration for some new fairy tale about curious kids and a whole village of witches.

This is a penguin gingerbread house. From such a picture you will get a wonderful New Year's card if you make an application. All lines are clear, the colors are juicy - it will turn out great.

Another picture about curious boys and girls. These do not burst sweets, but carefully look into the windows. Let such children deceive the witch, they are not greedy gluttons!

A small gingerbread house covered in snow. Gnomes live there and make snowmen. Rather, one gnome and her name is Pandora.

The most magical and fabulous time is, of course, the New Year and Christmas, which not only children, but also adults believe in! This is the time when magic can be created with your own hands. Do not believe it, then look at 12 New Year's gingerbread houses that personify this fabulous holiday. In addition, you can involve the whole family in cooking a gingerbread house and have fun.

the site offers you to stock up on a huge portion of spices (this is a gingerbread house), delicious decorations and a good mood!

Photos of gingerbread houses

1. Big gingerbread house

2. Gingerbread house in the form of London bridge

3. Gingerbread house from a cupcake

4. Charming gingerbread village

5. Creative Gingerbread Bread Shop

6. New Year's gingerbread house for a large family

7. Simple but very tasty house

8. Gingerbread yurt

9. New Year's gingerbread house with lighting

10. Two-story gingerbread house

11. The biggest and most delicious house

12. gingerbread house with gummies

Gingerbread house recipe:

Dough Ingredients:

• flour (1 kg);
• egg (3 pcs);
• sugar (200 g);
• honey (250 g);
• butter (200 g);
• soda (1/2 teaspoon);
• and exactly ¼ teaspoon of each spice (cinnamon, ginger, cloves, allspice and cardamom).

The first step is to mix all the spices into a spicy mix, beating them in a mortar. Mix flour and soda separately! Then, in a separate container, you need to combine chopped spices, honey, sugar, eggs and butter. Add flour mixed with soda to this container. Knead the dough and refrigerate it for 3 hours.
And you will have time to choose the shape of the house and make templates!

For the first test, it is best to stop at a simple option - two side parts of the house with windows, a back part, a front part with a doorway and two identical parts of the roof. By the way, it’s worth drawing them on paper, so that later you can simply attach them to the dough and cut them off on it.

And if you coped with this task, then it's time to take the dough out of the refrigerator, give it a couple of minutes to adapt in the heat and don't forget to knead it again! But the gingerbread house can’t wait to give a holiday to your family, so start rolling out the dough on parchment paper with a thickness of about 0.5 cm, apply the prepared stencils of details to it and cut out parts of the house.

The final stage is to bake spicy parts for 10-15 minutes at a temperature of 170-180 degrees.

Caramel icing for gluing the gingerbread house

Are you already dreaming about the moment when you decorate the gingerbread house? But first you need to glue it. And caramel icing is the best. Combine in a metal bowl 100 g of sugar and 2 tbsp. spoons of water. Bring syrup to a boil, reduce heat and simmer until light brown and viscous.

Well, that's it, if the baked parts have already cooled down, you can start the magic - collect your gingerbread house!

Decorations for the gingerbread house

The main component of the magic of all gingerbread houses is the patterns of sweet protein glaze. And to prepare it is very simple - just beat one egg white, 2 drops of lemon juice and 180 g of powdered sugar until soft but thick foam. You can apply it with a confectionery syringe or bag.

And most importantly - to decorate the house, do not forget to stock up on chocolates, nuts, M&M's, marshmallows, Oreo cookies, coconut flakes, confectionery powder and gummies!

Watch the video: How to make a gingerbread house with your own hands!

So, let's start the first stage of making gingerbread houses ...
That is, we simply choose the one that we liked the most or that we can master. ;))
There are an unimaginable number of schemes and houses.
A savvy person can draw the house of his dreams himself. :)
Well, here I will collect what I found on this topic on the internet.
Links, recipes, pictures and diagrams.
If you also have something interesting, please share!
I will update the post with your links. :))

There are a lot of gingerbread houses.
Recipes, decorations, patterns.
First, I'll show pictures from the Internet. :)

This is the house I really like. Should be cooked. ;))
Pictures for the preparation of such houses.

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Now with regard to the design of such houses.
There are many schemes.
Here's what I found... :)

This template is easy to print and cut out.
Very comfortably.

Lots and lots of recipes, ideas, great topic and interesting tips. .

In the same topic, I found a recipe from the magazine "Lisa", which I shared fifochka.

For 1 house:

100 g honey
50 g granulated sugar
60 g butter
1 sachet of vanilla sugar
1 tsp spice mixes for baking
1 egg
280 g flour
1 tbsp baking powder
3 tbsp milk
Icing
sweets and marmalade for decoration

Mix honey in a small saucepan with granulated sugar, vanilla sugar and butter. Heat over low heat and stir to get a homogeneous mass. Remove from heat and let cool slightly. Add spices and eggs. Sift flour with baking powder and half mix with the resulting mass. Then add the rest of the flour. Knead the dough, give it the shape of a ball and put it in the refrigerator for 2 hours. Cut out templates from thick paper (I cut it out of cardboard) 11x12 cm for the roof, 6.5x7 cm for the side walls, 14x10 for the facade, while making the bevels so that the height of the walls is 6.5 cm.
heat the oven to 180. Roll out the dough on a floured table and cut out 2 parts for each template. Put them on a baking sheet lined with baking paper, brush with milk and bake for 15 minutes. From the remaining dough, cut out a 20x20 cm square for the stand and the fence. Brush with milk and bake for 15 minutes. Let the finished parts of the house cool for 30 minutes.
Prepare icing sugar. Use it to assemble and decorate the house.

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In general, any recipe for gingerbread dough is suitable for making a gingerbread house.
Here are recipes from friends. :))

In parallel, another flash mob is taking place to prepare gingerbread houses. :)
http://opiume.livejournal.com/58485.html
This magazine has a very useful post about making mastic.

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Recipe for Finnish gingerbread houses piparit from Ira-kaunisira

200 g butter or margarine
200 ml. Sahara
1 egg
1/2 dl dark syrup or molasses or dark honey
2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp carnations
1 tsp ginger
1 tsp soda
500 ml flour

Beat sugar with butter until firm foam. Add syrup (molasses, honey) and egg, whisking constantly. Add dry ingredients mixed together, mix. Divide the dough into 2 parts and roll them into long sausages with a diameter of about 4 cm on a table richly powdered with flour. Let the dough rest in the refrigerator for about half an hour. Remove the dough from the refrigerator, let it warm up and roll it out to a thickness of 2-3mm. Cut out cookies with cookie cutters and bake at 175C for 8-10 minutes.

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Interesting recipe from Natapit

Gingerbread house with oatmeal

1000 gr. oatmeal Quaker/qvick cooking/
2 tsp baking powder
1 tbsp lemon or orange zest/dry/
500 gr. water
250 gr brown sugar
125 gr melted butter

Place all ingredients in a mixer bowl and knead the dough.
put in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
Roll out thinly on baking paper and cut out the pieces of the house according to the pattern.
bake on baking paper in a preheated oven at 160" for 30 minutes.
glaze:
550 g of powdered sugar beat with 3 egg whites / medium-sized eggs / Decorate the house with this icing.

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Look what a wonderful house turned out Wiki - vi_delight Last year. :))
http://vi-delight.livejournal.com/6075.html

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And also watch the video. And there are also many links to interesting videos on this topic. :)