• Grab your clean and dry milk carton ( I put mine on the top shelf of the dishwasher to clean them)
• Hot glue graham crackers to the sides of your carton
• Hot glue graham crackers to the roof.  Don't get too picky here.  The frosting will cover any of the carton showing through.
• If you are using a whipping cream carton, then you'll have a spout in your way. You'll want to break the graham cracker square in half and glue them separately. Glue one half at the base of the roof, and then you can layer the other one over the spout
• Hot glue the graham cracker house to the plate. Place it in the back, leaving room for a front sidewalk.
• To make the peaks in the roof. I saw a square graham cracker piece at a diagonal. I use these pieces for the sides of the roof. When trying to get those triangle cuts for the side of the roof, take a square and USE A SAWING MOTION on the graham cracker.  Press down VERY LIGHTLY, and pretend you saw a piece of wood with your butter knife.  I don't know how many I broke pushing down, trying to slice the square into two triangles.
• You can also use scissors to cut the graham cracker, but you'll need to go slow and use gentle pressure

Frosting

• I add about 3/4 cup up to 1 cup of powdered sugar to 16 oz. frosting to thicken it.  This keeps the candies from sliding off the roof and walls.  It also dries nice and hard.

Decorating

• I found it best to get the divider trays for each kid and portion the frosting and candy out before they sat at their house.  There is less fighting that way. Throw-away foil cupcake tins work perfectly for this.