Acrylic Gingerbread House Templates
A few years back I bought some acrylic to use as a rack blanking plate, and I had a bit left over. It’s sad in the garage ever since we moved in here, as I’ve not had anything to do with it.
But when Sabriena does the gingerbread houses for Duncan’s Christmas party (sure to be even bigger this year, she uses some cardboard templates covered in clear plastic packing tape), and I thought it might be nice for her to have something more durable.
So this weekend I dragged some tools out into the sunshine and copied her templates, using what few skills I can remember from the latter side of my high school’s “metals and plastics” courses. I scribed and cut the templates out, then used two different sets of sandpaper on our orbital sander to smooth the edges. A bit of steel wool to polish, and then with the protective film removed, they look pretty nice.
They’re not food-grade by any stretch of the imagination, but they don’t have to be… and they should last quite some time.
