Warm holiday spices, sweet icing decorations, and charming candy details come together in these 20 gingerbread family coloring pages, free for you to download and print. This whimsical collection celebrates the cozy warmth of festive baking, capturing the heart and joy of a sweet gingerbread home!
These pages bring the sweetness of the holiday season right to your fingertips, from images of adorable gingerbread parents and children decorated with gumdrops to cozy scenes of cookie families decorating their candy-coated houses, playing in sugary snow, and more!
To begin coloring, just click on any image or link below to view the free PDF. Once open, feel free to download and print to your heart's content.
All pages are designed for US Letter paper but scale flawlessly to A4. Happy coloring!
10 Craft Ideas to do With Gingerbread Family Coloring Pages
Once those finished coloring pages start piling up, don't let your little artists' hard work go to waste. These easy, budget-friendly crafts turn those colored gingerbread family members into festive, hands-on keepsakes and decorations.
1. Baking Sheet Magnet Play Set
Cut out your colored gingerbread family members and laminate them, or seal them with clear packing tape for durability. Glue a small strip magnet to the back of each family member, then let your kids arrange them on a real, cheap metal baking sheet. They can use dry-erase markers to draw kitchen scenes, ovens, and spatula slide-ways directly onto the baking sheet for hours of interactive play.
2. Mix-and-Match Family Puzzle
Glue the colored gingerbread family page onto a sturdy piece of cardboard, like an empty cereal box, before cutting the characters out. Cut each gingerbread family member horizontally into three sections: the head, the torso, and the legs. Kids can scramble the pieces to mix and match different icing styles, outfits, and sizes to create hilarious new gingerbread relatives.
3. Cozy Cookie Jar Luminary
Cut out the colored gingerbread family as a single connected unit, or cut them individually and glue them close together in a circle. Use Mod Podge to adhere the family to the outside of a clean glass mason jar, then tie a red-and-white baker's twine bow around the rim. Pop a battery-operated tea light inside to make the family glow from within, looking just like a cozy cookie jar come to life.
4. Gingerbread House Mantle Garland
Fold brown construction paper into simple, flat 3D triangle-topped houses and draw candy details on them with white chalk markers. Cut out your colored gingerbread family members and glue one character “inside” the doorway or window of each paper house. Punch holes in the rooftops, thread them onto a piece of red yarn, and hang your custom gingerbread neighborhood across the fireplace mantle.
5. Head Pastry Chef Crown
Measure and cut a thick band of brown construction paper to fit around your child's head. Glue the entire colored gingerbread family to the front center of the band, then wrap white pipe cleaners around the borders to mimic piped frosting. Secure the band with tape, and your child has a festive crown to wear while helping you bake real holiday cookies.
6. Sweet Family Recipe Board
Transform a large sheet of poster board into a giant, whimsical recipe card titled “Recipe for a Sweet Family.” Have your kids glue their cut-out colored gingerbread family to the side, then write out fun “ingredients” next to them like “3 cups of hugs, 1 pinch of giggles, and a spoonful of sharing.” It makes a heartwarming, personalized piece of kitchen wall art for the holiday season.
7. Paper Plate Cookie Delivery Pouch
Take two paper plates, cut one in half, and staple the half-plate to the whole plate to create a pocket. Glue your colored gingerbread family characters to the front pocket, and paint the rim of the plates brown to look like a pie crust or giant cookie. Fill the pouch with real, wrapped gingerbread cookies to hang on neighbors' doorknobs as a sweet holiday surprise.
8. Puff-Paint Gingerbread Pencil Cup
Wrap an empty, clean tin can in brown felt or construction paper to make the base of your “gingerbread house.” Glue the cut-out colored gingerbread family around the cup so they look like they are standing outside their home. Use white dimensional puff paint to squeeze “icing” borders around the rim of the can and around the feet of the family members for a textured, functional desk organizer.
9. Baking Carton Puppet Theater
Glue your cut-out gingerbread family members to the tops of wooden popsicle sticks. Turn a cardboard egg carton upside down, paint it silver like a baking sheet, and cut small slits into the bottom of each cup. Kids can slide the popsicle sticks into the slits to make their gingerbread family stand upright and perform sweet kitchen-themed puppet shows.
10. Cookie Growth Chart
Hang a long, vertical strip of brown butcher paper on the wall, decorated with white rick-rack ribbon to look like a giant candy cane ruler. Glue the colored gingerbread family members at different heights on the chart, matching the sizes of the paper characters to your own kids' heights. Mark your children's actual growth lines next to their gingerbread counterparts to see how much they “bake” and grow each year.