Few Christmas treats are quite as cheerful as a smiling gingerbread man covered in colorful icing and candy decorations.
These Gingerbread Man Christmas Coloring Pages bring that sweet holiday favorite to the coloring table with adorable gingerbread people, peppermint candies, candy canes, Christmas presents, festive decorations, and plenty of little details to make your own.
You can keep your gingerbread people traditional with warm brown cookies and white icing, or create an entire batch in every color imaginable.
So grab the crayons, sharpen the colored pencils, and get ready for a Christmas coloring activity that looks almost good enough to eat!
🍪 Sweet Gingerbread Men to Color
The classic gingerbread man is wonderfully simple—and that’s exactly what makes him so much fun to color.
Start with a warm cookie shade such as:
- Light brown
- Golden brown
- Cinnamon
- Caramel
- Tan
- Deep gingerbread brown
Then comes the best part: the decorations.
Give your gingerbread man bright icing, colorful buttons, a cheerful bow tie, candy decorations, or whatever else your imagination comes up with.
Traditional white icing looks adorable, but there’s no reason to stop there.
Try pink icing.
Blue buttons.
Purple bows.
Rainbow gumdrops.
At Christmas, even gingerbread cookies can have their own sense of style.
🍬 Gingerbread Men With Peppermint & Candy Canes
Peppermints and candy canes make the perfect companions for Christmas gingerbread.
Their bright red-and-white stripes immediately add festive color to the page.
Keep them classic with red and white, or experiment with other candy combinations.
Try:
- Pink and white
- Green and white
- Red and green
- Blue and white
- Rainbow stripes
- Purple and pink
A few brightly colored candies can really stand out against the warm brown of the gingerbread cookie.
If the picture includes several peppermints, you could color every one differently and create an entire candy-shop Christmas scene.
🎁 Gingerbread Men With Christmas Presents
What could make a gingerbread man happier than a pile of Christmas presents?
Gift boxes add even more opportunities for color.
Try wrapping each present differently.
One might be bright red with a gold bow.
Another could be forest green with white snowflakes.
A third could be pink with a turquoise ribbon.
You could even imagine who each present belongs to while you’re coloring.
Perhaps the gingerbread man is delivering gifts on Christmas Eve.
Maybe he’s helping Santa.
Or maybe those presents are all headed to the biggest gingerbread Christmas party of the year.
😊 Cute Gingerbread Characters
Gingerbread people have a way of looking cheerful no matter what they’re doing.
Their simple icing smiles, round buttons, and little cookie arms and legs make them perfect characters for children’s coloring pages.
Give each gingerbread person a different personality.
One could have:
- A red bow tie
- Green buttons
- Pink cheeks
- A blue scarf
- Yellow icing
- Purple candy decorations
Another might look completely different.
If several gingerbread people appear on the page, children can pretend they’re a whole gingerbread family.
There’s Mom Gingerbread.
Dad Gingerbread.
The gingerbread kids.
Perhaps even Grandma and Grandpa Gingerbread.
Suddenly, a coloring page becomes its own little Christmas story.
🍪 Rows and Rows of Gingerbread Cookies
A page filled with lots of little gingerbread men is especially fun because you don’t have to decorate any two cookies the same way.
Imagine you’ve just baked a giant Christmas batch.
Some could have white icing.
Some could have pink.
Others might have colorful candy buttons, striped scarves, little bow ties, or bright Christmas decorations.
Try creating a repeating pattern:
Red buttons.
Green buttons.
Gold buttons.
Then repeat.
Or forget about matching altogether and make every cookie completely unique.
By the time you’re finished, you’ll have the most colorful imaginary cookie tray in town.
🎨 Gingerbread Man Color Palette Ideas
Not sure which colors to use?
Start by choosing a Christmas color palette.
Traditional Gingerbread Christmas
Use:
- Gingerbread brown
- Red
- Forest green
- White
- Gold
This gives your picture a wonderfully classic Christmas look.
Candy Cane Christmas
Try:
- Red
- White
- Pink
- Peppermint green
- Pale blue
This palette works especially well for pictures filled with candies.
Pastel Gingerbread
Use:
- Blush pink
- Mint green
- Lavender
- Baby blue
- Peach
- Cream
Pastel gingerbread pages can look wonderfully sweet and whimsical.
Winter Wonderland
Try:
- Brown
- Icy blue
- White
- Silver
- Navy
- Pale lavender
Rainbow Gingerbread
Forget the rules and use everything in the crayon box.
Christmas coloring should be fun, after all.
🍭 Decorate Your Gingerbread With Candy Colors
One of the easiest ways to make a gingerbread coloring page more exciting is to imagine that every little decoration is made from candy.
Buttons might be gumdrops.
Eyes could be tiny chocolates.
A bow tie might be made from icing.
Decorative dots could be colorful candies.
Candy canes and peppermints can fill the background.
Try using especially bright colors for the candy decorations so they pop against the cookie-brown gingerbread.
Red, lime green, turquoise, pink, yellow, orange, and purple all work beautifully.
✨ Make the Icing Stand Out
Icing gives gingerbread people their distinctive look.
You can leave it white, but adding a little shading helps it stand out from the page.
Try outlining white icing very lightly with:
- Pale blue
- Light gray
- Lavender
- Cream
Or create colorful icing instead.
Red and green icing looks especially festive.
Pink and white creates a candy-shop look.
Gold or silver gel pens can add sparkle to tiny details.
You could even make rainbow icing running around the arms and legs.
🖍️ Best Coloring Supplies for Gingerbread Pages
Almost any coloring supplies can work for these cheerful Christmas pictures.
Crayons are great for younger children and larger gingerbread shapes.
Colored pencils make it easier to color small buttons, icing lines, candy canes, and facial details.
Markers give the presents, candies, and Christmas decorations bold, bright colors.
Fine-tip markers are especially useful for smaller sections.
Gel pens can add colorful details to buttons and icing.
Metallic pens are wonderful for gold gift ribbons and Christmas decorations.
Glitter pens can give candy, icing, stars, and presents a little extra holiday sparkle.
Mixing several supplies together can create an especially fun finished picture.
👧 An Easy Christmas Coloring Activity for Kids
Gingerbread man coloring pages make an easy December activity because there isn’t much preparation involved.
Print the pictures, put out some crayons or markers, and you’re ready.
They work particularly well for:
- Christmas parties
- Classroom activities
- Holiday break
- Snow days
- Christmas Eve
- Family craft nights
- Cookie decorating parties
- December quiet time
- Visits with grandparents
- Christmas movie nights
You could even pair coloring time with actual gingerbread cookies.
Color a gingerbread man on paper, then decorate a real cookie afterward.
That sounds like a pretty good Christmas afternoon.
🎄 Make a Gingerbread Coloring Station
If you’re hosting children during the holidays, create a simple gingerbread coloring station.
Set out several different gingerbread pictures along with cups or baskets containing crayons, colored pencils, and washable markers.
Add a few Christmas stickers if you have them.
Children can choose their favorite picture and decorate it however they like.
For a gingerbread-themed Christmas party, you could combine the coloring table with:
- Gingerbread cookies
- Hot chocolate
- Christmas music
- Candy canes
- Gingerbread house decorating
- Christmas movies
It doesn’t have to be complicated.
Sometimes a table covered with crayons and Christmas pictures is all kids need.
🍪 Color Before Decorating Gingerbread Cookies
If you’re planning a gingerbread cookie decorating day, coloring pages can make a perfect opening activity.
Before the frosting and candy come out, let everyone design their dream gingerbread cookie on paper.
Which colors will they use?
Where will the buttons go?
Will the gingerbread man have a bow tie?
What color will the icing be?
Children might even use their finished picture as inspiration when decorating the real cookies.
Just don’t be surprised if the actual cookie ends up with three times as much candy.
✂️ Turn Finished Pages Into Christmas Decorations
Once your gingerbread pictures are colored, don’t automatically put them away.
They can become adorable homemade Christmas decorations.
Try:
- Hanging them on the refrigerator
- Creating a children’s Christmas art wall
- Displaying them in a classroom
- Adding them to a holiday scrapbook
- Giving them to grandparents
- Framing a favorite picture
- Cutting out individual gingerbread people
- Turning them into paper ornaments
- Using them to decorate a Christmas party
- Adding them to homemade Christmas cards
A whole row of brightly colored gingerbread people can make a particularly cheerful holiday display.
🎀 Make a Gingerbread Garland
If your coloring page contains individual gingerbread characters, carefully cut them out after coloring.
Then attach them along a piece of ribbon or string.
Suddenly you’ve created a homemade gingerbread garland.
Hang it:
- Across a mantel
- On a classroom wall
- Along a bookshelf
- Across a child’s bedroom
- Around a Christmas craft area
If several children are participating, let everyone contribute one gingerbread person.
You’ll end up with a wonderfully mismatched gingerbread family.
🎁 Turn Gingerbread Art Into Homemade Cards
A finished gingerbread picture can also become part of a Christmas card.
Color your favorite gingerbread man, cut around the design, and glue it onto folded cardstock.
Then add a holiday message such as:
Have a Sweet Christmas!
Merry Christmas!
Sweet Wishes for the Holidays!
Have a Holly Jolly Christmas!
Children can make cards for grandparents, teachers, friends, neighbors, or other family members.
Homemade cards don’t have to look perfect. That’s part of their charm.
✏️ Add Your Own Gingerbread Details
The printed picture is only the beginning.
Once you’ve colored the gingerbread man, add your own Christmas details to the background.
You could draw:
- Snowflakes
- Christmas trees
- Candy canes
- Presents
- Gumdrops
- Peppermints
- Stars
- Christmas lights
- A gingerbread house
- A snowy village
You could even draw an entire kitchen around your gingerbread man and pretend he has just jumped off the cookie tray.
🏠 Create a Gingerbread Village
If you have several finished coloring pages, put them together to create one big gingerbread world.
Draw gingerbread houses on additional paper.
Add candy cane streetlights.
Make gumdrop bushes.
Create frosting-covered Christmas trees.
Then place all your colored gingerbread people throughout the village.
Children can give the characters names and invent stories about what they’re doing.
Perhaps they’re preparing for Christmas Eve.
Maybe they’re baking cookies—which raises some interesting questions when the bakers are cookies themselves.
Or maybe they’re waiting for Santa to arrive at Gingerbread Village.
🎅 Imagine a Gingerbread Christmas Adventure
Coloring can be even more fun when there’s a story behind the picture.
Ask children questions while they work.
Where is the gingerbread man going?
What’s inside the presents?
Is he friends with Santa?
Does he live in a gingerbread house?
What does a gingerbread Christmas tree look like?
What would gingerbread people leave out for Santa on Christmas Eve?
There are no wrong answers.
A simple coloring session can turn into a wonderfully silly Christmas storytelling activity.
🌟 Make Every Gingerbread Man Different
If you have more than one gingerbread character to color, challenge yourself to make every one unique.
Give each one:
- Different buttons
- Different icing
- A different facial expression
- A different bow or scarf
- Different candy decorations
You could even give each gingerbread person a name.
Before long, you may have created an entire gingerbread neighborhood.
❤️ A Sweet and Simple Christmas Activity
Christmas doesn’t always need another complicated activity.
Sometimes it’s enough to sit at the table with a box of crayons and a smiling gingerbread man waiting to be colored.
Make him traditional.
Make him rainbow-colored.
Cover him in imaginary candy.
Give him a purple bow tie and bright green buttons.
Add presents, peppermints, candy canes, and Christmas decorations until the whole page feels wonderfully festive.
The only real rule is to have fun.
So pick your favorite Gingerbread Man Christmas Coloring Page, grab your coloring supplies, and create the sweetest little Christmas character you can imagine. 🍪🎄❤️
