Here are 32 gingerbread coloring pages, all drawn for this site, all free to print. There are 12 easy sheets for small children, 12 medium ones, and 8 detailed ones that will take an adult an evening.
Two things here are different from most coloring page collections. Every sheet has a real A4 version, laid out for A4 rather than a US Letter file that you shrink to fit. And every sheet says what it is for, because they were drawn by people who build gingerbread houses, which means a few of them are quietly useful before you bake rather than only after.
Each one prints from a PDF, one page, no sign up.
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All 32 Gingerbread Coloring Pages
12 easy sheets, for younger children
Gingerbread House Coloring Page
Easy. A classic house with a gumdrop ridge, scalloped icing and a candy path. Colour it in, or use it to plan a real build before you bake.
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Gingerbread People Coloring Page
Easy. Three gingerbread people with buttons and icing cuffs. The narrow arms and legs are exactly where a real cookie breaks.
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Roof Pattern Practice Page
Easy. The roof is deliberately blank. Try a pattern here before you commit it to icing, because a roof is the one panel everybody sees.
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A Frame Gingerbread Cabin Coloring Page
Easy. One big triangle, which makes this the easiest shape to colour and the easiest to actually build. No side walls means nothing to lean.
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Gingerbread Cookie Tray Coloring Page
Easy. A tray of cut-out cookies: a star, a heart, a tree, a little house and a gingerbread person. Good for small hands and short attention spans.
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Gingerbread House Panels Coloring Page
Easy. The six flat pieces a house is actually made of, laid out the way they come off the baking tray. Colour them, then see if you can picture the house.
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Easy Gingerbread House Coloring Page for Toddlers
Easy. Big shapes, thick lines and only five things to colour. Made for the age where staying inside the lines is the whole challenge.
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Easy Gingerbread Man Coloring Page for Toddlers
Easy. One gingerbread man, filling the whole page, with three fat buttons. Nothing here is smaller than a crayon tip.
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Snowman and Gingerbread House Coloring Page
Easy. A three ball snowman with a top hat, and a small house behind him. Two subjects on one page for anyone who gets bored halfway.
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Gingerbread Cookie Jar Coloring Page
Easy. A jar packed with cookies and one that escaped onto the table. A jar is also where these actually belong, since gingerbread goes soft in a tin.
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Gingerbread Baking Scene Coloring Page
Easy. A rolling pin, rolled dough with the shapes already cut out, and the three cutters that made them.
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Gingerbread Gift Boxes Coloring Page
Easy. Three wrapped boxes with bows and a tiny house on top of the tallest one. Good for practising ribbon patterns.
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12 medium sheets, for school age and up
Gingerbread Train Coloring Page
Medium. An engine and a carriage on a candy track. The wheels are the fiddly part in icing and the fun part in crayon.
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Haunted Gingerbread House Coloring Page
Medium. A crooked house with bats and two headstones. The lean is deliberate here, which is the only time it ever should be.
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Cocoa Mug and Mini House Coloring Page
Medium. A mug of cocoa with marshmallows and a little house perched on the rim. This is the mug-topper build, at the size a real one has to be.
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Candy Cane Lane Coloring Page
Medium. A house with a candy cane fence and a winding sweet path. The path widens as it comes toward you, which is how you fake perspective.
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Wreath and Snowflakes Coloring Page
Medium. A house with a wreath on the door, two frosted trees and falling snowflakes. The wreath is the one detail that reads as Christmas from across a room.
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Gingerbread Log Cabin Coloring Page
Medium. Horizontal log courses across the walls. In a real build those lines are piped, and they are the cheapest way to make a plain wall look finished.
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Gingerbread Barn Coloring Page
Medium. A gambrel roof with two slopes each side and big cross braced doors. The double slope is harder to cut and much harder to keep square.
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Gingerbread Lighthouse Coloring Page
Medium. A striped tower on rocks with a lantern room at the top. Colour the stripes in a spiral rather than straight bands and it reads as round.
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Gingerbread Sleigh Coloring Page
Medium. A sleigh with a curled front and two wrapped gifts. The curl is a single curve, which is exactly why it snaps when you bake it.
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Gingerbread House with Lamppost Coloring Page
Medium. A house with a stocking under the eave and a lamppost in the yard. The lamppost is the detail that makes a board look like a street.
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Gingerbread Mushroom Cottage Coloring Page
Medium. A domed cap roof with spots instead of a pitched one. A dome is the one roof shape you cannot cut from a flat sheet of gingerbread.
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Gingerbread House on a Cake Stand Coloring Page
Medium. A small house presented on a footed cake stand. Raising a build off the table is the easiest way to make it look deliberate.
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8 detailed sheets, for older children and adults
Gingerbread Village Coloring Page
Detailed. Five cottages and three trees. Give each house a different roof and the row stops looking mass produced.
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Victorian Gingerbread House Coloring Page
Detailed. Two storeys and a corner tower. Lots of small windows to fill, and a reminder that height is the thing that makes a real build wobble.
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Gingerbread Castle Coloring Page
Detailed. Two turrets, a battlement and a portcullis gate. Every tower is a cylinder in real life, which is why most castle kits cheat and use flat panels.
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Gingerbread Chapel Coloring Page
Detailed. A steeple, arched windows and a star on top. The steeple is the tallest thing on any of these sheets, and in a real build it is the first thing to topple.
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Gingerbread Bakery Shop Coloring Page
Detailed. A shopfront with a striped awning, a blank sign board to name yourself, and a window of cookies on a shelf.
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Gingerbread Windmill Coloring Page
Detailed. Four sails on a tapered tower. The sails are the one part of this that nobody manages in gingerbread without a support underneath.
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Gingerbread Townhouses Coloring Page
Detailed. Three narrow houses shoulder to shoulder at three different heights. Building them joined is far easier than building three separate ones.
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Detailed Gingerbread House Coloring Page for Adults
Detailed. Layered scallop rows on the roof, arc and dot panels on the walls, and a row of baubles along the base. This is the one that takes an evening.
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How to Print These So They Actually Fit
This is where most printable collections quietly fail, and it is worth ninety seconds.
Pick the file that matches your paper. US Letter is 8.5 by 11 inches. A4 is 8.27 by 11.69 inches, so it is narrower and taller. They are not interchangeable. A Letter file sent to an A4 printer either loses a strip off the side or gets scaled down with a white band at the bottom. Every sheet here has its own A4 layout, drawn to A4 rather than squeezed into it, which is why there are two links under each one.
Set scaling to 100 percent, not "fit to page". Fit to page shrinks the art by a few percent to clear your printer's unprintable margin. For a coloring sheet that only costs you a slightly smaller picture. It matters more if you are tracing the shapes, which is what the panels sheet is for.
Thin paper bleeds. Standard copier paper is fine for crayon and pencil. Felt tip markers will go through it and mark the table. If markers are likely, print on the heaviest paper your printer takes.
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Which Sheet for Which Age
The label on each sheet is about how much detail is in the artwork, not about how good anyone is at colouring.
Easy means large closed shapes and thick lines, with nothing narrower than a crayon tip. The two toddler sheets are the extreme version: one house, five things to colour, and the whole page filled.
Medium means the shapes are still obvious but there are more of them, and some are small enough to need a pencil rather than a crayon. This is most of the set.
Detailed means repeating pattern work: layered scallop rows, arc and dot panels, a village of five cottages. These are the ones adults actually finish, and the reason is that repetition is the point rather than an obstacle.
Three of These Are Build Tools, Not Just Pictures
Most of the set is a picture to colour. Three of them do something else, and they are the reason this collection exists on a gingerbread house site rather than a coloring site.
The roof pattern practice page has a deliberately blank roof. A roof is the one panel everybody sees, and icing is unforgiving: once a pattern is piped it is piped. Trying three patterns in pencil first costs nothing. Our royal icing page covers the consistency you need once you have chosen one.
The panels page shows the six flat pieces a house is actually made of, laid out the way they come off the baking tray. Almost every first-time builder is surprised that a gingerbread house is six flat panels and not a house-shaped thing. Colouring the pieces separately makes the assembly obvious before any dough is rolled. The real versions, sized and printable, are on our free gingerbread house templates page.
The A frame cabin is the easiest shape on this page to colour and also the easiest to build. It has no side walls, so there is nothing to lean, which is the single most common way a first house fails. The structural dough recipe is the other half of that problem.
Who Drew These and What You Can Do With Them
Every sheet on this page was drawn for this site. None of it is stock art, none of it was traced from anyone else, and there is no licence question hiding behind any of it.
You can print these for personal use, for a classroom, and for a library or community group, free, as many copies as you need. You do not need to ask and you do not need to credit us. What we ask is that you do not resell the files or republish the PDFs themselves as your own download, which is the one thing that would make it pointless to have drawn them.
That statement is on every sheet, in the footer, so a teacher who prints one without visiting this page still knows where it came from and what they may do with it.
Frequently Asked Questions
Are these really free?
Yes, and there is no email form. Every link above goes straight to a PDF.
Can I use them in my classroom?
Yes. Print as many as you need. The same goes for a library, a childminding setting, a hospital play room or a community group.
Which file do I want, Letter or A4?
If you are in the United States or Canada, US Letter. Almost everywhere else, A4. If you are not sure, look at a sheet of paper already in the printer: A4 is noticeably narrower and taller than Letter.
Why are there only 32 and not a hundred?
Because each one is drawn rather than generated, and because 32 distinct subjects is already more than most people will print. There is no point in ten near-identical houses.
Can I colour these on a tablet?
Yes. Save the PDF and open it in any drawing app that imports PDFs. The line art is vector, so it stays sharp at any zoom.
Do you have gingerbread house templates as well?
Yes, and they are a different thing: sized, printable panels for building a real house. They are on the templates page.
More Free Gingerbread Printables
Free printable gingerbread house templates are the build version of these, sized to cut and bake.
Gingerbread clipart covers the same artwork in colour, for cards and invitations.
Gingerbread house decorating ideas is where to go once the colouring is done and you want to build one.
Halloween gingerbread cookies pairs with the haunted house sheet.