Keeping with our annual holiday gingerbread tradition, we embarked on a project unlike anything we’d done before: a holiday scene fashioned after a storied college football stadium minutes from our home: Cornell University’s Schoellkopf Field! We hosted our church youth group and their leaders as they built the entire structure, from start to finish. Over the course of the afternoon, we supervised them as they
- made gingerbread dough
- rolled it out onto cookie sheets
- used tagboard templates to cut out the pieces they’d need
- assembled the structure using royal icing and steady hands
- affixed all of the seats (made from sticks of gum they cut in half!)
- affixed all of the fans to the stands
- modeled all of the “actors”, including Santa’s sleigh, the reindeer, trees, a snowman and presents
- flattened many pieces of licorice candy to make custom roof tiles (!)
