If you are a fan of making of gingerbread houses for the Christmas holiday, then this cute little Valentine’s Day themed project is for you. This Valentine’s Day Pop Tart House is such a fun, creative and oh-so yummy Valentin’s Day activity for kids. The Frosted Strawberry Milkshake Pop Tarts work perfectly for this Valentine’s Day project! If you can’t find them in-store, you can purchase them on Amazon following the links in this guide.
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Valentine’s Day Pop-Tart House
This Valentines Day Pop-Tart House is such a fun and adorable gingerbread house style gift or project to make with your children. Instead of normal gingerbread, you will use pop-tarts to make the house. You can enjoy quality time with your loved ones making this Pop-tart house and the taste of it makes it even more worth it.
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What Can I Use to Decorate the Pop-Tart House?
For this Pop-Tart House, you can use just about anything you want to decorate it. You can use all sorts of candy, sprinkles, icing, and more. The more you add to it, the better the outcome. You can choose to use regular candies or Valentine’s Day themed things, like candy hearts, or sprinkle hearts.
What Do I Use to Hold the Pieces Together?
So, there are two options that are most effective when trying to hold your Pop-tart House together. You can go the simple route by using icing to seal the edges and wait for it to harden. The other alternative is using hot sugar. You can melt sugar in a pot with water and dip the sides of your pop-tarts inside the melted sugar and hold until it hardens. Both ways work great, but the icing will probably work the best.
Supplies Needed
- Strawberry Milkshake Pop-Tarts (will need 6 pop-tarts – or three sleeves – for each house, we like to purchase them in bulk as they are a family’s favourite!)
- White frosting (will need about half a can for each house)
- Miscellaneous Valentine’s Day candy
- Piping bag
- Knife
Pop Tart House Tutorial
On one end of a pop-tart, cut one end to create a point. Place that pop-tart over a second pop-tart. Cut the pop-tart to match the shape of the first.
Place frosting in a piping bag and snip the end.
Using the frosting, attach the cut pop-tarts to two uncut pop-tarts to create a house shape.
Then, use the frosting to attach two pop-tarts to the top of the house as a roof.
With additional frosting, attach candy to the house.
Allow the frosting to dry or nibble away!
Valentine’s Day Pop Tart House
Equipment
- piping bag
- Knife
Materials
- 6 Strawberry Milkshake Pop-tarts or three sleeves – for each house
- White frosting will need about half a can for each house
- Miscellaneous Valentine’s Day candy
Instructions
- On one end of a pop-tart, cut one end to create a point. Place that pop-tart over a second pop-tart. Cut the pop-tart to match the shape of the first.
- Place frosting in a piping bag and snip the end.
- Using the frosting, attach the cut pop-tarts to two uncut pop-tarts to create a house shape. Then, use the frosting to attach two pop-tarts to the top of the house as a roof.
- With additional frosting, attach candy to the house.
- Allow the frosting to dry or nibble away!
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