Gingerbread House

Lay the front wall flat on the table, engraved side up. Push the door step's two end tabs into their pair of slots near the bottom of the wall and stand the two candy canes in the step's front slots. Lay the door's vellum on the wall with its bottom edge against the step, then set the door over it so its bottom tabs drop into the step's notches. Press the hood on over the door's top tabs, its own tabs into the slots above, and stand your name plaque in the hood's two front slots.

The two peppermint windows and the gingerbread man window up in the gable go on next: sill, vellum, frame, hood, then the frosting cap in the hood's front slots. Each window goes on the same way, as shown above.

Lay the floor flat, tealight opening in the middle. Stand the front wall on the floor's front edge, door facing out, and slide it in so its bottom tabs drop into the floor's notches.

The right side wall slides in from its side and meets the front wall at the corner. The corner tabs mesh like fingers: work them together a little at a time.

The back wall slides in from the back and locks into the right side wall the same way.

The left side wall slides in from its side and finishes the box. It meets two walls at once: seat one corner, then the other.

The left roof panel goes on first (the one without the chimney slots). Its slots drop over the tabs along the tops of the front and back walls.

Then the right panel. Its top edge runs on past the ridge and laps over the top of the left panel, so the ridge closes tight with no gap for the light.

Build the chimney off the house first. Start with the tall wall, then slide the two angled side walls in from the sides, striped faces out, sloped edges toward the bottom. Slide the short wall in to close the box. Then set the chimney on the roof: its tabs go into the roof slots and the sloped edges sit flat on the roof.

Push each frosting trim half's tabs up into the row of slots near the front edge of the roof. The two halves meet at the peak.