If you're going to have a Tinkerbell Movie Night, of course you must decorate a home for your favorite fairy! These look hard, but they're really not. Just think gingerbread houses, but 3-sided. Let's do it!
Tinkerbell Fairy Houses
Ingredients:
Graham Crackers (5 per house)
Sugar Cookie dough (storebought or your favorite recipe)
Life Saver Candies (I used two small bags for 6 houses)
Royal Icing
Green Food Coloring
Ziploc freezer bags (quart size, 1 per person)
Any candies you want to decorate the houses. Clean out the pantry!
Aluminum Foil
Wax Paper
Candy Melts, optional (I used pink ones just to add some extra color but it's not necessary)
Directions (for one house):
Cut the corners off three graham crackers to make a large triangle (see picture). Use the large triange and the two corners will be extra (crush them for a pie crust or something:)). Using royal icing, glue the triangles together to form a pyramid shape. This is the roof.
Cover with melted Candy melts if desired (I used pink but it's not necessary, the kids are going to put candy on it). Let dry on wax paper. For the base of the houses, lay 2 graham crackers side by side to form a square and glue together with royal icing. Let dry on wax paper (again, you can cover them with candy melts if you want)
Roll out sugar cookie dough into 1/4" thickness and cut out 3 large rectangles. Use a whole graham cracker as a size guide. Place on a cookie sheet covered in aluminum foil & sprayed with cooking spray and cut out any shapes you want to make "windows" (see video tutorial).
Put Life Saver candies in a large ziploc bag and crush them with a mallot or rolling pin. Using a small spoon, put crushed candies into the "windows" in your cookie rectangles. Bake at 375 for abuot 9 minutes until candies are melted and cookies are barely brown. Remove from oven and let cool. Take three rectangle cookies, place them on one of the smaller sides and glue together on one of the house bases.
Pipe frosting on the top edge of your house and place a roof on top. Tint some icing green and have fun piping out vines and leaves on your house. Let dry (about an hour).
Give your child a bag of icing (ziploc bag w/ a corner snipped off), some candies, and let them make this Tinkerbell House a "Home". Enjoy!





10 comments:
OMG! How cute are those! I bet my girls would be over the moon if we made some of those houses!!! Thank you very much for the lovely tutorial. :)
Thanks sooo much for posting this. My daughter would love making (and eating) this and it doesn't look too hard eto make either.
This is such a cute idea. Thanks for posting it!
Oh my goodness, that is the best little Tinkerbell house I've ever seen :-) My oldest will love this...I might have to do it this weekend. She's read every one of the Disney Fairy books several times and is lovin' her some Tinkerbell. Thanks for sharing!
When we make it, I'll be sure to let you know so you can see pics (although they won't be nearly as pretty as yours, hehe).
Absolutely adorable!
Cute Cute! I love melting lifesavers for windows in houses! they turned out darling! It sounds liek a fun movie night!
Oh, my daughter is going to love doing this!
I think you out did yourself with these.
Lifesaver violence. I like it. =)
Now, I know what to do for our next family night. Thanks for the fun idea.
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