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Not just for Christmas, these hanging decorations are so easy to make!
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Prepare your workspace. You will need natural and coloured lolly sticks, broad colour pens, a pencil, ruler, scissors, white card, glitter, sequins, glue and ribbons.
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Using a pencil, draw out a small house shape on the white card and then cut out this shape with scissors.
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Trim down some coloured lollypop sticks with scissors and use the school glue to stick these onto your card to represent a door.
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Measure the natural lollypop sticks against the base of the house and trim where necessary, stick these down with glue.
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Cut a length of ribbon to use as a hanging loop. Stick this on the top of the gingerbread house roof.
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Trim down some more coloured lollypop sticks to use for the roof, you can also add some glitter, sequins and card as windows.
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There are endless creative possibilities with these gingerbread house ornaments. Use them as tree ornaments or on door handles for a fully festive look.