The World’s Best Gingerbread Houses

In many families, making a gingerbread house together is one of the best ways to celebrate the season. Whether you choose to make one huge creation together or face off in an epic battle to see whose gingerbread house wins the top prize, all that matters is that you’re having fun with your family and loved ones while spending intentional time together.

This year, we’ve gathered some incredibly inspiring gingerbread houses to help give you some ideas for how to decorate your own edible abode. While most of these gingerbread houses have already been consumed, there are always a new crop of amazing gingerbread houses that are created each holiday season – maybe yours will take the top honors this year!

Great Wolf Lodge’s Snowland Gingerbread House

If you’ve ever visited Niagara Falls, you’ll know that everything is bigger and better at the Falls! Great Wolf Lodge, a resort and theme park, is located on the Canadian side and it’s a gigantic water park with an attached hotel that’s decorated in a woodland theme. If you’ve ever been there, you won’t be able to forget the giant talking animatronic animals that populate their lobby.

Every year, they build a life-sized gingerbread house in the lobby, and you can even make a reservation to eat dinner inside! The only caveat is that you can’t eat the house itself – you have to order off the menu.

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