We continued our Advent celebration with making and decorating gingerbread man cookies. Our good friends came over for dinner and afterwards we sat around the table and decorated our gingerbread man cookies. All the children had a wonderful time, and delighted in eating their newly decorated cookies.

This was my first time making these cookies and I wasn’t even sure what they are supposed to taste like. I got my recipe from 101cookbooks and I really like the taste of these cookies. (Note: to make rolling out the dough easier, I put a piece of dough between two sheets of wax paper and roll it out. After the kids imprint the cookies, I then peel the cookie off of the wax paper.)

Here are some photos from our advent activity:

Cutting the dough:

Freshly baked cookies:

Decorating time:

Our youngest daughter’s opinion: “Who needs decorations?!!!”