During the Christmas season, it’s fun to be busy in the kitchen baking and decorating gingerbread cookies!

While you wait for the cookies to cool enough to decorate, your kids can make their own gingerbread name craft that requires no baking! 

This festive idea will have kids working on spelling their name, scissor skills, and fine motor skills putting it all together. They can customize it to be a gingerbread boy or girl with their favorite colors and top it all off with their names.

Whether you’re spending quality time at home or having a crafting session in the classroom, this gingerbread man will be a hit with the kids!

Be sure to check out more gingerbread man activities that your kids will love to do this holiday season!

Gingerbread Man Craft

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You only need a handful of supplies and our free template. This is an editable name activity, so you can type in your child’s name on the gum drops, or leave them blank and kids can practice their handwriting by writing their names on them instead.

We also printed our template onto color paper, but feel free to use white paper and have your kiddos color it in!

Supplies

• Colored cardstock or construction paper
• Scissors
• Glue
• White acrylic paint marker or bold & bright markers (optional)
• Gingerbread man template (click the “click here to get this freebie” image at the end to open the form)

Directions

Start by downloading the gingerbread man template and printing it out. Once you have the template printed, gather the materials needed for this fun activity. Get those scissors ready, and let’s help the kids bring this gingerbread man to life!

First, guide your child to glue the hair to the top of the gingerbread’s head.

Glue both eyes just below the hair.

Place the bowtie just below the mouth and glue it in place.

Position the buttons in the middle of the gingerbread’s body and glue it down.

Draw icing decorations on the arms and legs.

Next, help your child to place the completed Gingerbread on a background piece of paper and glue it down.

Finally, encourage your child to arrange the letters below the Gingerbread men to spell out the child’s name.

Don’t forget to explore our other name crafts for your kiddos to make while they enhance their name recognition and creative thinking skills!

Christmas Ideas for Kids

This Christmas, engage your little ones with some festive DIYs and activities that promise to bring fun to learning! Get them busy with some simple Christmas projects and fun educational activities during this magical time of year.

Read on below for a selection of Christmas ideas that would be the perfect addition to your celebrations. There are captivating books, additional DIY ideas, and activities designed to make this holiday season a memorable blend of joy, learning, and festive fun!

Children’s Christmas Books

Below are some of the top Christmas books to read to your kids!

Dasher: This wonderfully illustrated Christmas book for kids gives you the back story on one of Santa’s favorite reindeer, Dasher! Girls will especially love to read this since Dasher is a girl.

Construction Site On Christmas Night: Fans of the fun characters of the construction site books have to add this Christmas-themed story to their collection. See how the trucks get ready for Christmas!

How To Catch An Elf: Kids everywhere love the silliness of this Christmas story. The rhymes and the illustrations will draw the kids in as well. This is a Christmas book kids will want to read every year!

Quick Christmas Crafts

Torn Paper Reindeer Craft – Get into the festive spirit with our reindeer project using torn paper. This fun activity makes a cute Christmas decoration and it’s a fantastic way to workout those fine motor skills. Let the creative reindeer games begin!

Santa Cup Craft – Kids can transform an ordinary paper cup into a jolly Santa decoration with this fun idea! This simple craft is a great way for kids to have some hands-on fine-motor practice and get into the holiday spirit at the same time!

Handprint Reindeer Craft for Kids – If you’re looking for a fun and easy Christmas project for kids, definitely save this one. Kids will have so much fun seeing their handprints become the reindeer’s antlers when they create this personalized DIY!

Elf Yourself Craft – Kids can become Buddy the Elf with this festive idea! Bring this holiday favorite movie to life with your kiddo’s photo. Once they complete their elf, they’ll love playing with it and posing its movable arms and legs! This would also be such a cute classroom Christmas activity!

Preschool Christmas Activities

Keep kids busy with our Christmas matching worksheets! They’ll help your kids develop their observation skills and improve their memory.

There are four different matching activities included with all your kids’ favorite Christmas illustrations from elves to snowmen. Grab this set of free printables and your kids will be matching colors, shadows, numbers, and Christmas pictures.

Grab the markers and these gingerbread man dot to dots for some festive learning this holiday season! These gingerbread activities offer three adorable worksheets featuring a gingerbread man holding a candy cane, a charming gingerbread girl, and a jolly gingerbread Santa.

These dot to dots keep it simple with numbers up to 25, so they’re perfect for kindergarten students. This holiday activity will keep them engaged and entertained!

Bring the festive fun into learning with our free printable reindeer worksheets! This educational activity is ideal for use at home or in the classroom – they’re a fun way to help kids develop handwriting, visual-spatial skills, and critical thinking!

Enhance letter identification and practice handwriting with the “R is for reindeer” page, navigate the letter R maze, and enhance vocabulary and fine motor skills by labeling the “Label a reindeer” worksheet.

These engaging printables promise a jolly blend of learning and holiday cheer, making your kids’ Christmas holiday even merrier! 

Unwrap the joy of the season with these festive Santa printables! They’re perfect when learning about the letter S or holiday lesson plans.

These activity pages are packed with educational fun, blending festive cheer with valuable learning experiences from fine motor activities to handwriting practice.

Your little ones will have fun while learning with six different worksheets featuring color by number, q-tip painting, dot-a-dots, playdough mats, connect the dots, and a finish-the-picture.

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Gingerbread Name Craft Template