The Elf on the Shelf An Elfs Story Gingerbread House Kit by Cookies United

All I needed was a gingerbread house that showed up all in one piece. This did, and it had lots of cute decorations to use when assembling. I was satisfied.

These aren’t packaged for shipping to begin with, so the house was broken and the cookie decorations were crumbled. We did manage to piece the house together, but there’s no where near enough candy and no way the icing can come close to being enough to make it look anything like the picture on the box. The house also had a chimney on the end wall that instructions say to remove; maybe these kits are pieced together with leftovers.

This made my little grand daughter very happy and excited in difficult times.

The gingerbread arrived broken. Very heavy gingerbread. Difficult for children to build compared to other gingerbread house kits. Good variety of candy. Good icing. Would not buy again.

The roof pieces included in the kit are not perfect rectangles. Instead, they have rounded sides, so they don't too together flush. This make it impossible to glue them together at the peak of the roof with the frosting.Also, the tops of the front and back walls aren't very smooth, and this lack of smoothness makes for inconsistent sealing with the frosting. Both of these things together cause the roof pieces to want to slide off the walls.Lastly, there was a plastic bag with some little candy balls in it. When I opened the box, I found this bag was broken open and the candy balls had gone all over the box. This made them very difficult to control and they went rolling all over the place numerous times.

We had 2 kits, 1 was this one and the other was from another manufacturer. This one the icing tasted better, held better, and had a better cookie than the other kit. The house fell while decorating, but I’m fairly certain she was heavier handed trying to decorate the roof! My only minus is we could have used more candy decorations, but it worked out because the other kit fell apart and she used those candies.

Do not waste your money! I ordered 2 ginger bread houses from this seller and both were completely broken. It was so bad, the kids ended up just put icing in the pieces and ate them because they could put the house together. So disappointing!!

Had this shipped to my nephew who is a big Elf On The Shelf fan, it was a hit. Thankfully came and no pieces were broken.

An overpriced waste of money. It contains very small amount of gingerbread that does not fit together properly to make a house, a tiny amount of icing far too inadequate to stick the house together, 2 tiny, very tiny bags of cheap candy and an elf. I could have got the kit for 10 dollars at a local store. Very disappointing and a big rip off. Contrasted with the picture on the box the contents of the box are laughable or would have been if I hadn't been so upset.