Hot Glue your Gingerbread House

We buy Gingerbread house kits on sale after Christmas & save them for the next year. In my opinion, a year later, they are not a tasty treat. However, these kits make it possible for someone like me to have a lot of fun with my 5 kids. Even with the kit, the frosting "mortar" was always the challenge. So a few years ago, I decided to try a glue gun. Voila! With a hot glue gun, we've made some great gingerbread homes! It has even become a tradition for my husband to use Pez candies to make a brick chimney! We'll use Dots candy for very colorful roof shingles. Of course, we pipe the frosting on "for show", but it is really the hot glue that holds it all together!