It’s hard to tell who enjoyed the event more, kids or their parents. West Side Moravian Church, located on Third Avenue in Bethlehem, hosted the gingerbread house-making event Dec. 16. Normally, it would be the parents who would help pitch in, but this time some of the kids helped some of the parents create their masterpieces by adding the decorations to the houses.

Each purchased house kit came with printed instructions. House wall and roof panels consisted of graham crackers, and candy such as gumdrops, M & M’s, Skittles, Swedish fish, Hershey kisses and candy canes for trims and icing. Participants had the choice of making their kits at the church or picking them up and making their houses at home.

Joe Klinkhoff, volunteer of the Bethlehem Food Co-Op, organized this event and has been doing it for the past five or six years.

Rose Deifer and her older sister, Charlotte, created their own masterpieces. Pretzels became a fence, icing and gumdrops became bushes and a gumdrop on a pretzel stick became a flag.