On our 9th day of twenty-one days of Yule we are going to be creating something magickal. My youngest son Rowan has really been looking forward to this day we are building gingerbread houses. This tradition of the gingerbread sculpture goes back to an Armenian monk who brought it to Europe in 992. It wasnt made specifically for the holiday season till the 17th century though. This is our first year making them at home we have made it in their school and at a cooking class. For our gingerbread house we actually had a gingerbread house kit that we had purchased the year before but didn't get a chance to build. Each kid got to glue on a wall while I held it to make sure it's straight is an once the frame of the house was completed and dry it was time to get started on the roof which I got to say was a little hard. Now it's time for the fun part to put the decorations and stuff on the outside of the house. It was actually a lot harder then I thought, but I think that is because the kit is a year old. I would hope next year when we make it fresh it will be easier. For next year we are definitely going to make each of us a gingerbread house from scratch.
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As a mom of three boys who go to public school I started to notice that some things were not being taught in detail so I decided to create lessons for them. Many of these lessons cover science, history and of information about Paganism. I share crafts for the all different holidays and cultures as ways that they can learn and have fun at the same time.
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