Gingerbread Boy/ Girl craft

We made our own Gingerbread Friends.  I cut out a template to trace on cardstock then I traced the outline on white construction paper.  During centers each student painted theirs in (practicing staying inside the lines).  When they were dry My T.A. and I cut them out.  The next day we used foam shapes to add 2 eyes and 3 buttons.  I encouraged student to macth their eyes and make a pattern with their buttons (after the 3 were glued down, I would ask them what button would come next).
We decided he also needed icing but we couldn't use real icing so I made the mixture I used with "It looked like Spilt Milk". Equal parts glue and shaving cream.  I added red paint to one and green paint to another.  I put the "icing" into zip-lock bags and cut one of the bottom corners very slightly.  I then used it like a real baker's icing piping bag to "decorate the cookie".  I was able to have a few students do their own but it got pretty messy so I did the rest.  it dries puffy and looks like real icing!