Steps to making proper Gingerbread Men:
1) Mash the dough using enough flour to cover the entire counter-top.
2) Sometimes it's more fun to use a utensil to flatten the dough.
3) Maybe just hammering it with your fist is the best method.
4) Once the dough is thin enough, it's time to use the cookie cutter.
4) It's all in the wrist and elbow.
5) Pops says that to make the proper Gingerbread Man, you have to hold your mouth just right.
6) You got it.
7) Making Gingerbread Men is a family project.
8) Now to the cookie sheet.
9) And the final product...
Well, maybe that was just a little past final...
At least you didn't show us the final Final product if you know what I mean.
The kids are adorable!
Posted by: nikki | December 19, 2007 at 06:32 AM
That looked like a whole lot of fun.
Kids are adorable and the last one has the right idea, let's eat em!
Posted by: janeywan | December 19, 2007 at 06:40 AM
Absolutely off the cute meter! I myself used the beat 'em with your fist method the other day with sugar cookies!
Posted by: Sandy | December 19, 2007 at 06:59 AM
run run you can't catdhjfgdhjgh mmmmmmm
Posted by: Pamela | December 19, 2007 at 08:05 AM
ooh, we play "chew and show" at our house too! ;-)
cute. and yummy.
Posted by: janet | December 19, 2007 at 08:07 AM
Very cute -
BUT HEY! That baby is chewing on the Pam. ha ha - everyone is busy making cookies and the baby is getting into stuff. So typical! hee hee
Posted by: Karmyn R | December 19, 2007 at 12:50 PM
sooo cute!! I loved making cookies with the kids when they were younger!!
Posted by: Alison | December 19, 2007 at 08:08 PM
Don't you mean Gingerbread Persons?
Posted by: M@ | December 19, 2007 at 08:11 PM
Oh What a clever boy! Now did you leave some for me?
Posted by: karisma | December 19, 2007 at 08:42 PM
TY for the card. :D
Posted by: Debs in Flakey Patch | December 20, 2007 at 04:55 PM
Looks like the kiddo had a good time!
Posted by: Kila | December 20, 2007 at 10:54 PM
Great pictures, Swampy. My nephew went over to my mother's house last weekend, and they spent the day making gingerbread men too.
He loved it.
After she showed him how to "help" with certain things, he apparently was an expert and started "teaching" his grandfather.
Posted by: RWA | December 21, 2007 at 08:55 AM
Great photo story! I think my favorite is how you knowingly or unknowingly captured the lil one sucking on the can of Pam cooking spray!!! That is just a classic photo!!
Posted by: kaytabug | December 23, 2007 at 09:03 AM