Looking for gingerbread house clipart to spruce up any holiday presentations, documents or decor? Below are thirty nine gingerbread themed images, from plain black and white line art to candy-covered houses and full holiday sets, grouped by the kind of thing you need rather than in the order they were added. Thirty one we collected and checked. The other eight we drew ourselves, and those are the only ones on this page with no licence to read.
Two practical things before you scroll, because they decide whether any of this is usable for your project and almost no clipart page will tell you.
The thirty one collected images are JPEG files, so none of them has a transparent background. Put one on a white page and it looks fine. Put one on a colored slide, a photo or a patterned background and it arrives inside a visible rectangle. That is a property of the JPEG format, not a setting you can change. Our own eight are PNG and do have a transparent background, so those drop onto any colour cleanly.
The collected ones top out at 800 pixels, which prints cleanly to about 2.7 inches. Big enough for a spot illustration on a worksheet, a card or a slide. Not big enough to fill a sheet of paper without going soft. Our own eight were drawn as vectors, so the printable set sheet further down prints crisp at any size.
If that already tells you what you needed, skip ahead. If not, the checker below works it out for your specific job.
And if the picture was never really the point, if what you want is a house you can build, our free printable gingerbread house templates are the file to take instead.
Will These Actually Work for What You Are Making
Most clipart pages hand you a picture and wish you luck. Two things decide whether an image works: how big it has to end up, and what it is sitting on. Answer both and this tells you straight.
Sizes and formats were measured from the files on this page in August 2026. Print sizes assume 300 dpi, the normal standard for print, and 150 dpi where noted as more forgiving. This is practical guidance, not legal advice about image rights. Nothing you select is stored or sent anywhere.
How to Pick, in About Ten Seconds
Three questions get you to the right group, and they are the same three every time.
- Is anyone going to color it in? Then you want black and white line art, and you want the bold outlines rather than the detailed ones. Fine lines look impressive on screen and turn into a mess under a crayon.
- Is it one thing, or a scene? A single house works as a spot illustration next to text. A full holiday set works as a header, a border or a background, and looks cramped anywhere small.
- What is it sitting on? White page, anything here works. Anything other than white, and the rectangle problem above decides it for you.
Picture a teacher putting together a December worksheet on a Sunday evening. She wants one gingerbread house at the top of a printed page, about three inches across, on plain white paper, and the children are going to color it. That is black and white, bold outline, and three inches is just past the point where these stay perfectly crisp, so it will print slightly soft. On a classroom printer, on paper children are about to scribble on, nobody will ever notice. That is a perfectly good use of number 1.
Now picture the same teacher making a slide for the interactive whiteboard, with a red background. Same image, completely different outcome: a white box around a gingerbread house, on a red slide. Nothing is wrong with the file. It is the wrong format for the job.
Find the Right One
Thirty one images is a lot of scrolling on a phone. Filter by the kind of thing you need, or search the descriptions, then tap through to it.
Categories and pixel sizes were measured from the actual files on this page. Filtering happens entirely in your own browser and nothing you type is stored or sent anywhere.
Where These Came From
A straight answer, because clipart pages usually avoid this one. These images were collected for this page some years ago and we do not hold a documented license for them, so we are not in a position to tell you what you may and may not do with them. Use them the way you would use any image whose origin you cannot check: fine for something private, a worksheet, a party invitation, a slide for your own class. Not something to put on anything you sell, or anything that goes out under a business name.
If you need artwork you can use commercially and prove you are entitled to, look for something published under a clearly stated public domain or Creative Commons Zero license, where the license travels with the file. That is a genuinely different thing from an image that merely appeared on a page that said “free”.
A Better File, If You Need One
If any of the above rules these out for your project, what you actually want is a vector file, an SVG or an EPS. A vector is not a grid of pixels, it is a set of instructions for drawing shapes, so it scales to a postage stamp or a poster with no loss at all, and it carries a real transparent background. Line art, which is most of what clipart is, is exactly the kind of drawing that should be vector.
It also means one file covers every use, instead of you hunting for a bigger version the moment the project grows.
Our Own Gingerbread Clipart, Free and Yours to Use
Everything else on this page is clipart we found elsewhere and checked, and we tell you what we could establish about each one. This set is different: we drew it. Eight pieces, each in full colour and as a clean outline, which makes sixteen files. There is no licence to read and no attribution to chase, because there is no third party involved.
It also fixes the problem the rest of this page keeps running into. Most free gingerbread clipart is a small JPEG, and the images further down print clean to about two and a half inches before they go soft, because that is the size they exist at. These were drawn as vectors. The PNGs below are 800 pixels square, and the printable set sheet holds all sixteen as vector art, so you can scale one piece up to fill a page and the edges stay sharp.
The outline versions are the same drawings with the fills removed, so they double as colouring pages for younger children.
Children who would rather make their own can follow our step-by-step guide to how to draw a gingerbread house, which starts with a box and a triangle.
Gingerbread man. Colour PNG · Outline PNG
Gingerbread house. Colour PNG · Outline PNG
Small cottage. Colour PNG · Outline PNG
Candy cane. Colour PNG · Outline PNG
Iced tree. Colour PNG · Outline PNG
Star cookie. Colour PNG · Outline PNG
Heart cookie. Colour PNG · Outline PNG
Gumdrop. Colour PNG · Outline PNG
Download the whole set as a printable PDF, all eight pieces in colour and outline on one page.
Free for personal, classroom and library use. Please do not resell the files or redistribute them as your own set.
The Thirty One Images
Each one lists its real dimensions and the size it will print cleanly at, so you can rule it in or out without downloading it first.
Black and White Gingerbread Clipart for Coloring and Printing
If what you actually want is a sheet to print and colour rather than clipart to place in a document, we have 32 free gingerbread coloring pages, drawn for this site, in US Letter and A4.
Four printable colouring sheets, drawn by us. Everything else on this page is clipart we found and checked. These four are original line art we made, which means there is no licence question at all: print them, photocopy them, hand them round a classroom.
They also solve the problem this page keeps running into. The images below are JPEGs that print clean to about two and a half inches, because that is the resolution they exist at. These are drawn as vectors and laid out at full page size, so they print at whatever size the paper is.
- Gingerbread house. A classic house with a gumdrop ridge, scalloped icing and a chimney. US Letter PDF or A4 PDF.
- Gingerbread people. Three figures with buttons and icing cuffs. US Letter PDF or A4 PDF.
- Gingerbread village. Five cottages and three trees on one sheet. US Letter PDF or A4 PDF.
- Roof pattern practice. The roof is deliberately blank. Try a pattern on paper before you commit it to icing. US Letter PDF or A4 PDF.
Free for personal, classroom and library use. Please do not resell or redistribute the files themselves.
1. Bold outline, best for coloring
JPEG, 700 by 713 pixels. Prints clean to about 2.4 inches.
2. Detailed line drawing
JPEG, 700 by 600 pixels. Prints clean to about 2.3 inches.
3. Grayscale scene
JPEG, 700 by 660 pixels. Prints clean to about 2.3 inches.
4. Silhouette set
JPEG, 700 by 691 pixels. Prints clean to about 2.3 inches.
Gingerbread House Clipart in Color
5. Pink icing roof
JPEG, 504 by 700 pixels. Prints clean to about 2.3 inches.
6. Yellow house with red roof
JPEG, 700 by 663 pixels. Prints clean to about 2.3 inches.
7. House in a blue circle
JPEG, 750 by 750 pixels. Prints clean to about 2.5 inches.
8. Scalloped icing roof
JPEG, 700 by 718 pixels. Prints clean to about 2.4 inches.
9. Green and red trim
JPEG, 750 by 631 pixels. Prints clean to about 2.5 inches.
10. Pale blue icing
JPEG, 625 by 700 pixels. Prints clean to about 2.3 inches.
11. Blue trimmed roof
JPEG, 666 by 700 pixels. Prints clean to about 2.3 inches.
12. On a red background
JPEG, 700 by 700 pixels. Prints clean to about 2.3 inches.
13. Felices Fiestas
JPEG, 750 by 571 pixels. Prints clean to about 2.5 inches.
14. Blue outline, candy dots
JPEG, 700 by 666 pixels. Prints clean to about 2.3 inches.
Gingerbread Men, Cookies and Small Shapes
15. Desserts and sweets
JPEG, 700 by 534 pixels. Prints clean to about 2.3 inches.
16. Cookie shapes on tan
JPEG, 700 by 675 pixels. Prints clean to about 2.3 inches.
17. Cookie cutter shapes
JPEG, 800 by 640 pixels. Prints clean to about 2.7 inches.
18. Nine decorated cookies
JPEG, 700 by 651 pixels. Prints clean to about 2.3 inches.
19. Cookies and bunting
JPEG, 700 by 711 pixels. Prints clean to about 2.4 inches.
Full Holiday Clipart Sets
20. Watercolor blues
JPEG, 700 by 700 pixels. Prints clean to about 2.3 inches.
21. On a green background
JPEG, 800 by 675 pixels. Prints clean to about 2.7 inches.
22. Snow globe set
JPEG, 700 by 700 pixels. Prints clean to about 2.3 inches.
23. Cocoa and gifts
JPEG, 700 by 700 pixels. Prints clean to about 2.3 inches.
24. Houses and cakes
JPEG, 622 by 700 pixels. Prints clean to about 2.3 inches.
25. Houses and gumdrops
JPEG, 800 by 566 pixels. Prints clean to about 2.7 inches.
26. Labels and tags
JPEG, 700 by 700 pixels. Prints clean to about 2.3 inches.
Borders, Frames and Backgrounds
27. Framed border
JPEG, 800 by 610 pixels. Prints clean to about 2.7 inches.
28. Repeating pattern
JPEG, 700 by 700 pixels. Prints clean to about 2.3 inches.
29. Village scene
JPEG, 800 by 648 pixels. Prints clean to about 2.7 inches.
People Building Gingerbread Houses
30. Family in a kitchen
JPEG, 800 by 533 pixels. Prints clean to about 2.7 inches.
31. Chefs on ladders
JPEG, 800 by 653 pixels. Prints clean to about 2.7 inches.
Make the Real Thing Instead
Clipart is usually a stand-in for the thing itself. If you landed here putting together something festive and the picture was only ever half of it, the rest of this site is the other half.
- Printable house templates, if what you actually needed was a shape to cut around rather than a picture to paste in.
- Decorating ideas, for when the clipart was research for a real house.
- Thirty one gingerbread house kits, compared, if the plan is to buy rather than bake.
- The house recipe and the tips guide, if you are building from scratch.
- The dough and royal icing recipes, because the icing is what actually holds a house up.
- Which candy actually holds on a house, if you have got as far as decorating it.
And if you got here for a classroom or a party, thirty gingerbread recipes covers the edible version of the same afternoon.