My mother is kind of a recipe hoarder. From cookbooks, to handwritten recipes on 3×5 cards, scribbled notes on scraps of paper, printouts from the internet, to clipped magazine and newspaper recipes.

She sent me a clipping from the Buffalo News that was so faded I could hardly read the print. On it, I could make out a very cute log cabin made from pretzels. The date, December 1991. She thought it would be a fun project for me and my son (she is thoughtful like that). So, we gave it a shot.

My 3 year old was having a blast gluing together the cereal roof. Between mouthfuls of shredded wheat, he would loudly exclaim “I am the gluing machiner mommy!”. (Do’t worry, he didn’t eat any glue). I helped a little with the alignment when he looked away, but overall I was very impressed with his roofing skills.

When I was fixing the chimney, I had him make the yard and color some grass on a piece of paper. We glued sunflower seeds to make a door path. I used roasted seaweed pieces to assemble the trees, and glued Annies bunny grahams for some wildlife… although the next morning we were missing a bunny!

When its was finished and dry… he played with his matchbox cars, Fisher Price little people, and the cabin for days. Making a miniature house was a really fun project, maybe next year we will build with gingerbread!

* Note, this is a non-edible cabin!