Gingerbread House Success!

We participated in "Christmas Under the Stars". Our booth was by far the cutest booth and highly popular.  The recycled cardboard, paint, lights and wood, clamps cost less than 35.00 all together. The main expense was the candycane lights that we found for 20.00, and the 2x4's.  Our free activity was allowing people to use their camera phones so kids would take pics in front of our booth, and we had free "Letters to Santa", which they would then place in the little (Valentine's recycled) Mailbox.  It was an adventure for the smaller kids to come find the mailbox.  We also sold popcorn (with 15 flavors) and small Christmas snacks.

Door Decorating Contest Ideas

 
Here are so WAY cute ideas that were at Family Services Center.  The fire on the first phone has lights hooked into it and flash off and on.

Gingerbread backdrop for a Booth

This is a 6 foot tall gingerbread house for a Christmas booth at work. Very easy... Used an overhead projector and copied the house I liked onto the cardboard. Then used acrylic paint to add color. I also found some great free clip art and printed it off to add more candy detail