Trinity Steele, fourth-grader in April Mayes’ class at Smokey Mountain Elementary School, tries her hand at icing a gingerbread house for the holidays. “This is the first gingerbread house I’ve ever made,” said Steele, daughter of Harry and Jesse Steel of Whittier. Southwestern Community College culinary technology instructor Ceretta Davis volunteered her time and that of her students, including Candace Woodard of Bryson City, left, in helping the fourth graders with the project. “We tried out Ceretta’s homemade gingerbread recipe at school, then made standard patterns and cut them out…took us four days,” said SCC student Anthony Boyd. Members of SCC’s Culinary Club purchased candy for the edible decorations. “It helped my students in our unit on measurements, plus they exercised their creativity like Hayden Neadeau who used red licorice strings for Christmas lights,” said Mayes.