Gingerbread Houses have been a tradition in Oyster Bay Schools for more than 25 years. On the evening of their Winter Concert, Dec. 18, 2014, seventh-graders decorated the auditorium lobby with their gingerbread creations.
The students set up a display of their houses in the lobby of the Oyster Bay High School Performing Arts Center (The PAC). This year, the houses were sold ahead of time which allowed students to custom design each house for the buyers.
This service-learning project had the goal of raising money for “Cookies for Kid’s Cancer” to support pediatric cancer research. This year’s annual event raised $1,065.
The seventh-grade class donated candies and supplies along with three busy weeks of house designing, dough making, cutting and baking, decorating and selling of the cookie houses.
A holiday tradition is now the school’s traditional service-learning project.
