🍪🎄❤️ North Buncombe Middle School seventh graders found a home for creativity in Sherry Peek’s Family and Consumer Science classroom in the week before Winter Break.
Students built gingerbread houses from scratch, starting with making the gingerbread themselves. They planned their designs and cut out the needed pieces from the dough, baked the pieces, and assembled them with icing as glue. Ms. Peek provided edible ornamentations, but the students also brought candy and other goodies from home to make their gingerbread houses stand out.
“It’s fun to do something creative using our imagination,” said Vanna, a seventh grade student. “We’re just working together to make it cool.”
“I’ve never made gingerbread from scratch,” added Mason, another student. “This is a whole new experience.”
Ms. Peek said the project provided real world applications for measurement, cooking, and design concepts.
“This makes them slow down, plan, and carry out skills they learned in class,” she said. “And it’s a way to apply teamwork and imagination to something they decide to do.”