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Summary: Making a gingerbread house is a good way to teach children shapes. Learn how to cut squares in gingerbread dough to make a gingerbread house in this free video.

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Cutting Squares for a Gingerbread House

The reason why this task is very good with children is because they can learn the different shapes. They can actually learn the shape of the rectangular, and now they can learn about the, I mean the square shape. So we will need two eight by eight squares, so this side is actually okay; so I'm just, this side is okay, I am just measuring the eight centimeters; which is here, and I'm measuring the eight centimeters up. Good, so I'm going to make my square, so when our square is ready, then we cut it out as we did our rectangulars. Get rid of the unnecessary bits; we have one side of the house, let's make the other one. Okay, we do the same method again. That's eight, eight; Okay, now we just put it next to the other one. Alright, now we only have one bit left that we will need to put a bottom of the house so less mixing. Okay.

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