The New Year Train

We were wanting to get Chloe a Ginger Bread House for Christmas to decorate, but decided to wait until they went on sale after Christmas. When we went to the store to buy them the ones that we looked at the boxes were damaged and some of the candy was missing. There was one New Year Train and we put it in our basket and continued to shop. When we got in line at the check-out I took the train out of the basket, because I thought that Chloe would rather have a Ginger Bread House instead.

The next evening Aunt Emily called and said that she had a surprise for Chloe and they were coming over with it. When they arrived (Uncle John & Aunt Emily) they let Chloe have her surprise.



Her surprise was the New Year Train, and she was so excited that she wanted to open it and make it. We explained that it was her bedtime and we would do it Saturday morning.

At 6:30 a.m. she wakes up ready to assemble the Ginger Bread Train. I could hear Grandmother tell her that it was to early, "go back to sleep and we will make it later in the morning." Well as you probably already have guessed we got ready to make the New Year Train.

We opened up the box and read the directions:



Then we separated the Ginger Bread pieces:



We put all of the candy packets together:



Then Chloe got the icing bags and squeezed it around with her hands and fingers to make the icing soft.



I got Chloe to gather up all the pieces that had a dot on them so that we could assemble the caboose. We got the base out and squeezed the green icing into the base where the caboose was going to be placed and took the icing and iced the end pieces to build the caboose.



We continued the same process and built the Engine.



We started to trim the train out with the green icing and the white icing.



After the trim was completed the Chloe added the candy to the train.



We finally finished the Train, after Chloe ate some of the icing and candy and her fingers were almost stuck together.





I have to say that it was fun to do and not to bad of a job for an old Poppy and his four and a half year old Grand Daughter.



A job well done and a finished New Year's Train.