Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year and the busiest one when we spend most of our days decorating, experimenting with new recipes, and visiting friends and family. It is also the time when we prefer to shop online a lot for Christmas gifts and decorations. While it saves us time going back and forth to stores, it piles up a lot of waste material such as cardboard at home. If you also happen to have cardboard waste lying around, don’t worry. There are plenty of ways to recycle and upcycle trash into treasure, and this DIY cardboard gingerbread house display is the best of them all.
This tabletop décor is sustainable and doesn’t require much time to make. On top of that, this DIY Christmas craft won’t cost you much, just a bit of your time, and a few readily available materials. So follow this gingerbread house tutorial to make one yourself this holiday season.
Here is the full video tutorial:
Materials:
- Old cardboard pieces
- White pen/paint
- Craft knife
- Styrofoam
- Hot glue gun
- Fairy Lights
- Cotton
Prep Time: 5 minutes
Active Time: 25 minutes
Total Time: 30 minutes
Difficulty Level: Medium
How to Make Cardboard Gingerbread House for Christmas
We recycled an Amazon shopping box for this one. You can take any box you have at home. Now, Start by drawing gingerbread house frames on a rectangular piece of cardboard at different heights, and draw windows and doors to complete the silhouette.
Next, carefully cut out the silhouettes from the top using a cutter, ensuring the sides of the houses are connected. Then carve out the windows and doors. Be careful not to cut yourself. Make slight folds on the edges of the houses. You can use a long ruler to make things easy for you.
When the cutouts are ready, you can draw your festive patterns around the houses with any white pen. This is the most fun process, as you get to be creative with the patterns and designs.
Once done decorating the gingerbread houses, it is time to glue the cardboard pieces to Styrofoam sheets of varying heights to create a perfect Christmas tabletop gingerbread village display.
Finally, wrap your house in fairy lights and spread some cotton around to mimic snow. And that’s it, your cardboard gingerbread house display is ready to bring some holiday cheer.
Let us know what you think of this DIY gingerbread house display. Merry Christmas!
