We passed out about 2,000 invites at schools to make a gingerbread house on December 23rd. There were nine houses decorated using icing, chocolates, Skittles, cereal and other stuff. Each one was different and everyone finished in under 75 minutes. They all seemed happy with their results.
This gal used strawberry pokky to make the chimney. Others used small chocolate bar pieces.
One Japanese candy is a small cookie topped with chocolate that served as trees in this endeavor (note the front of the house).