Building the structure took the most time. Megan and I used a glue gun to hold the pretzels together and a serrated knife to cut the pretzels.
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We made the four sides, each the length of one rod.
The roof was made in 2 pieces,
then extra rods were added underneath the roof to help hold it up.
I wish I had taken a photo of this.
Then we just glued all the sides and the roof together.
It is rather crude, but we impressed ourselves anyway.
We used red, green, and white frosting.
I recommend the Betty Crocker cake icing with the tips included
and I would get 2 cans of white and one each of red and green.
We also used gumdrops, m&m's, red hots, and various sprinkles.
The small gingerbread house (dog house) and Santa are from
Dollar Tree.