Pine Lake Middle School student Dea Strahler, 14, sits next to a gingerbread house she help decorate in Mrs. Gail Oseran’s 8th grade homeroom class.

Each of the school’s 35 homerooms took part in the team-building exercise just before Christmas.

Strahler worked on the tasty creations along with her other classmates, focusing on the frosting lattice-work and decorating the sides.

Even better than pitching in to make the gingerbread houses, students got to take them home (for safe-keeping, of course) afterwards.