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This holiday season, check out the Gingerbread Village!

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Creating and decorating a Gingerbread house has been something my husband and his family have done for years. It was part of their Christmas tradition. When I started joining them for the holidays, I joined in on the fun, obsessively figuring out where to place the candy and how to make it look pretty. I quickly realized that half of the fun was eating the candy off the house a few days later.  However, the last couple of years before we had any kids, we sort of stopped making Gingerbread houses. The ingredients (aka candy) was heavy and cumbersome to carry while trekking for more than a kilometer through a foot of snow from the car to the cottage.

gingerbread house

With the birth of our oldest son Kyle, we knew we had to bring back the tradition! Our oldest boys, Kyle and Ryan, have so much fun making the Gingerbread house every year and just last week Kyle was asking when we can do it again. I know that this year, Nate, who is only 15 months old currently, will be joining them as well. Although, I presume he’ll be doing more eating than actually decorating.

gingerbread house siblings

Gingerbread Village

Making Gingerbread houses is fun for the entire family and that’s why Loblaws has created a life-sized gingerbread village at the Maple Leaf Gardens location (60 Carlton Street, Toronto). Festival holiday activities for the whole family include gingerbread cookie decorating, creating letters to Santa and the chance to try delicious holiday treats. The best part is that admission to the village is free of charge.

Loblaws Gingerbread village

The village will be open every weekend from November 28 until December 20 from 10 AM to 6 PM and on December 22nd and 23rd from 10 AM to 6 PM. For a charitable donation of just $5 to President’s Choice Children’s Charity, you can decorate a cookie and get a photo with Santa.

Loblaws MLG santa

Here are some additional details on what you can expect:

Seasonal Selfie Station

Forget those old family photos in ugly holiday sweaters.  At the Holiday Gingerbread Village, bring your family for a fun-filled seasonal selfie.  With candy-canes and holiday cheer in the background, and giant gingerbread houses all around, it’s the perfect chance for a festive photo to send to all your relatives for the holidays.  

Toasty, Tasty Treats

Hosting family for the holidays?  Now more than ever, it can be tricky to find a new and exciting dish to serve.  Why not search for festive features at the Holiday Gingerbread Village. Free samples at the Holiday Gingerbread Village will include brie with red pepper Jelly on an ACE bread crisp, and treats from the PC Insiders Collection, including the PC The Decadent Chocolate Cherry Loaf with butter.

Winter Warmers

Warm up with a DIY Hot Chocolate and Apple Cider Stand complete with marshmallows, whipped cream and cinnamon sticks.

GIVEAWAY

To help you with your holiday food and entertaining shopping, one lucky Mayahood blog reader will win a $100 President’s Choice Gift Card. Enter the giveaway via Rafflecopter (please give it a few seconds to load).  Contest is open to all residents of Canada.  Contest ends Friday December 11, 2015.

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What Others Are Saying:

  1. Erika E says

    My favourite tradition is putting up the tree with my family. We eat cookies and have hot chocolate, it’s lots of fun.

  5. Kim V says

    We also go to a restaurant on Christmas Eve with my parents and then back to my house where the kids get to open their presents from Grandma and Poppa.

  9. Melanie D says

    I like us to get a real tree, and have a night to decorate. As well every year to get in the holiday mood my gal pals have a treats exchange.

  11. Haven Williams says

    My favourite tradition would be spending that quality time together putting up the tree and decorating it. Also on chroatmas eve… We always open one gift, (the kids) that we give them and it usually has christmas pjs and a hot chocolate packet and a snack that they can enjoy before watching a christmas movie , reading the night before christmas, and going to bed. 🙂
    This year I have two step kids and a new baby so it makes it more exciting for me and my boys 🙂

  18. Christopher Luk says

    My favourite holiday tradition is decorating the tree and the rest of the house with the family while getting in the mood with a full playlist of Christmas songs 🙂

  31. Stephanie says

    We like decorating the Christmas tree together while singing and listening to Christmas music!

  32. prairiebelle says

    our favorite tradition is opening a gift on christmas eve. Usually it consists of pj’s and a dvd to watch that night

  33. Cheryl P says

    Favorite holiday tradition has to be the fresh hot out of the oven blueberry muffins EVERY Christmas morning. We were not allowed to open any gifts or see the tree till we had breakfast….It made the suspense and final reveal so exciting. I continued this tradition with my daughter so it is part of us and Christmas would not be the same without it!

  40. my villa says

    when we all gather around the tree and have the lil ones play santa, we make a big mess, sing some karaoke and then clean it all up the next morning

  43. Krista M says

    We decorate the tree having hot chocolate & listening to oldies xmas music. Then we watch Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. It’s a tradition!

  48. Alana Larcombe says

    My favorite holiday tradition is Christmas eve pajamas and watching Christmas movies. My second favorite is having my son choose 1 toy he receives at Christmas, rewrapping it and donating it at the local women’s shelter.

  49. Anita Huang says

    Our favourite holiday tradition is making sugar cookies and watching Polar Bear Express with the kids…and then it’s a Wonderful Life after the kids go to bed on Christmas Eve. In the morning, we have a cup of Starbucks Christmas blend and open toys with the kids. For every new toy they receive they must choose a gently used toy to donate.

  51. SueSueper says

    I loved going to my grandmas for Christmas Eve dinner, and while we were there, Santa would have came to our house, so we celebrated Christmas on Christmas Eve.

  53. Bailey Dexter says

    When my daughter was younger maybe twenty five years or so we started to bake together. Every year we do our Holiday baking, Last year her & her family were not able to come into town early for Christmas,so we Face-time doing the same recipes. When she came in town we shared our baking. Love that we could still carry it on!

  54. Julie D says

    Decorating the tree together while listening to Christmas music. (And if there’s a snow gently falling outside the window, all the better!)

  60. Maria says

    Christmas morning after all the presents are opened in our pj’s, everyone is snuggling/relaxing for the rest of the day enjoying each others company and the gifts

  61. andrea amy says

    I love decorating cookies and decorating the Christmas tree (and when I wrap gifts, I always watch the Christmas specials that my kids hate but I love!)

  63. Wayne Lecoy says

    It would be great to win a $100 President’s Choice Gift Card.
    In response to your question of
    What’s your favourite holiday tradition?
    My favourite holiday tradition is decorating my Christmas tree.
    Thank you for having this giveaway.

  70. Julie R. says

    My favorite tradition is putting the stockings out. My kids are teens now, but they still look forward to Santa visiting and getting surprises! I love seeing them light up with happiness.

  73. Jared S Denison says

    My favorite tradition is the annual Knox United Church X-mas concert. I was in it with my brothers and sisters, and now my nieces and nephews are in it.

  75. Pam says

    My favourite holiday tradition is taking the family on a horse drawn carriage ride to see the xmas lights in the park.

  80. SUMMER PLEWES says

    every year we make christmas morning wife saver and have a pajama party on Christmas eve. Always my favorite traditions.

  82. Bo Simms says

    My favorite holiday tradition is getting together with family, having Xmas dinner, and spending quality time together. We always pick names each year for the adults for gift giving, and keep the focus on the kids. We also have an ugly christmas sweater tradition which is a lot of fun too! Happy Holidays everyone!

  85. lyndac1968 says

    My favourite is making cinnamon rolls Christmas morning and yes the easy ones, they are great for munching on with coffee while opening gifts!!

  92. tanyab79 says

    Favourite tradition is the entire family baking xmas goodies and meat pies together. I have so many great memories.

  93. Elizabeth Matthiesen says

    What I love the most is family gathering together to enjoy the festive season. I have 7 children and 7 (soon to be 8) grandchildren scattered across 3 continents and it would be a dream come true to have all of them together for Christmas one year.

  100. Meg A says

    My community attends Christmas mass in the evenings in the Philippines after which they stroll around the town to enjoy the night market that sells pancakes on banana leaves. During this time, my family prepares for the Christmas Eve midnight feast and gives last minute gifts to people on the list. Weeks earlier, we’d have put up the the musical Christmas lights, wreaths, Christmas village and stockings we had as children (that was made for us from the USA). We also clean our home as we expect guests to come on Christmas day to visit and eat. We savour these moments as they are gone too soon before we had time to appreciate family and friends coming together to celebrate the season with us.

  109. Angela Mitchell says

    I love our tradition of all the adults stuffing each others stocking. It’s so fun!

  115. Dana Miller says

    My favorite holiday tradition is decorating the tree and house for Christmas with my daughter. I still have homemade ornaments from my childhood. We love to open the boxes of decorations and find all the surprises inside!

  119. Kelley Moore says

    We go to my aunt’s house for a family get together and my cousin dresses up as santa and gives out gifts to everyone!

  121. Amie says

    Decorating the tree , making a ginger bread house and snow men , also family dinner on christmas day

  130. Sunshine G says

    My favourite tradition is going to the local tree farm and cutting down our tree and going for brunch.

  141. Ashley says

    Happy Hanukkah, Maya!
    We’ve always done the typical Christmas-y stuff (for non-religious, traditional reasons). This year for the first time ever, we’re incorporating some Hanukkah festivities too! I asked my sister’s (Jewish) boyfriend to tell the kids about Hanukkah and share some of his family traditions with them, and he kindly obliged 🙂 Today the kids made the paper plate &clothespins menorahs that you posted on here a few days ago and they absolutely loved making them! Tomorrow we’re going to play dreidel and eat potato latkes – I’m so excited!

    • Maya Fitz says

      Awww. Love that. How amazing and good for you!!! Your kids are better for it… I promise you that. Teaching them about religions and cultures is the best thing you can do. Thanks for sharing.

  142. Journeys of The Zoo says

    Every year my extended family comes together for an evening. I love getting to see all my cousins and have all of our kids play together. I look forward to it every year.

    Thanks to the Sponsor for giving and you for hosting.

    Besos, Sarah
    Journeys of The Zoo

  152. ivy pluchinsky says

    my favorite holiday tradition is baking cookies together, and opening presents Christmas morning