It Takes a Village to Build a Village

I have the greatest friends in the world! I wrote a while back about an amazing group of friend who came to school to help my kids carve pumpkins. Well, this past Friday some more amazing friends came to school to help my kids build gingerbread houses. It was an experience for everybody and I think everybody really had a great time! It meant so much to know they each took time during a busy workday to spend an hour working one on one with one of my students so he or she could take home their own gingerbread house. Thank you Matt, Kaylie, Lesley, Amber, Kristin and Ryan! We couldn’t have done it without you!


Matt and Tyler worked on this house together. Matt explained that it is the first ever gingerbread house to have a retractable roof!



Kaylie and Loryn had a great time and became fast friends! After Kaylie left school, she sent me a message with the number of marshmallows Loryn ate in the building process…let’s just say I’m glad she wasn’t hanging from the ceiling on her way to the carpool line.





This was Lesley’s second time to visit our class. She and Haley carved a pumpkin together in October. This time she and Colby built our only gingerbread house with a snowman out front.



Amber also came to carve pumpkins. Haley couldn’t handle the gingerbread, so we made Rice Krispy treats in the shape of houses for her. These are Amber and Haley’s Rice Krispy house creations.




Kristin and Morgan worked hard to keep this house standing. Please notice also that Santa is already climbing onto the roof of this house. It survived all the way to the end of the day!

Ryan helped Wyatt carve a pumpkin and now he has helped him build the most structurally sound gingerbread house ever. Seriously, it could have withstood a hurricane. You may notice the lack of decoration on this house compared to the other. Wyatt had a system of a piece of candy for the house and 2 pieces for himself.

Thank you so much friends! Everybody was so proud of their gingerbread houses….best Fun Friday of December ever! Love yall!