Bake—I mean make—some super sweet 3D Gingerbread People decorated with pattern art using this template. The pattern art component is optional, this craft also works as a colour, cut-and-paste activity.
This is a fun festive season art project for kids.
Gingerbread is so yummy at Christmas! It looks and tastes even better because of all the candy decorations.
Once it gets closer to Christmas, we’ll be baking real gingerbread for sure. In the meantime, here’s a cute gingerbread art project. They turned out so well you can practically smell the ginger spice.
There is a boy and girl included in this template.
Kids can add their creative spin with pattern art, or simply colour the shapes and glue them on.
This craft is best for kids aged 7+, but younger kids could make it with adult help.
Let’s get started …
How to make 3D Gingerbread Pattern Art
You will need:
- Card stock in white, a colour of your choice and a shade of orange or brown to resemble gingerbread
- Markers – either permanent ‘sharpie’ markers or regular kids washable markers
- Scissors
- Glue stick
- The Gingerbread Pattern Art template, available from our printables store and TPT store
How to:
Print the glue-on details and support strips to white card stock and the body shape to brown or orange. To save paper, there are two sets of support strips to a page so you only need one per two students (or per two characters).
Decorate the glue-on shapes.
Cut the support strips out, then fold the dotted lines and glue them into squares.
Cut the gingerbread shape and other details out.
Glue the decorative details onto the gingerbread character.
On the back of the gingerbread character, glue the support squares.
Glue the gingerbread character onto the backing sheet.
These two are ready to eat! Oops—I mean hang on the wall. So long as you can catch them first 😉
More Christmas art ideas
- Decorate a 3D Christmas tree with doodle art
- Here’s a gorgeous silhouette handprint Christmas art project
- Batch process the prettiest hand-painted Christmas cards using our masking template
Check out more of our festive season printables
