Gingerbread characters are familiar decorative pieces for the holiday season.
Christmas is a time for gathering with family members and sharing happy moments together. Share the talents of your family with others by making crafts featuring the gingerbread man to be used to decorate your home, give as gifts or sell at craft fairs. You will find that there is a gingerbread man project for every type of craft that in which your family enjoys taking part, from the typical baked cookie to painting wooden characters.
Wood Crafts
Cut gingerbread man shapes from craft wood for a variety of decorations for children and adults to work with. Keep family members busy hand painting the figures with acrylic paint. Make ornaments for your tree or for as gifts for friends. Personalize the ornaments with favored colors and the names of each person in the family. Craft a super-sized gingerbread man for a yard decoration to be displayed for the Christmas season.
Paper Crafts
Family members will enjoy making paper crafts using the gingerbread man motif. Line drawings and coloring sheets can be used for patterns to create card stock ornaments, garlands and holiday bookmarks. Gather the family around the table for a crafting session to make gingerbread man greeting cards and tags for Christmas. Stamp an inked image of a cute gingerbread man on card stock. Fill in the image with colored pencils or ink pens.
Fiber Crafts
Bring the family together to make a felt countdown to Christmas project. Cut gingerbread man felt shapes for children to decorate with puff paint and beads. Make a wall display of a gingerbread house for the men to be attached to for the countdown chart. A gingerbread man quilt will be a sweet gift for a family member or friend. Family members that crochet or knit will enjoy making stuffed gingerbread men for craft fair sales or gifts.
From the Kitchen
The scent of cinnamon will fill the kitchen when family members gather together to create gingerbread man ornaments for the tree. A family can make one ornament cookie for each person on the holiday gift list. Older children can learn to use cake decorator tools to add colorful trim to the little edible men. Wrap the finished cookies with cellophane and tie a satin ribbon bow to the tops of the packages to allow them to be hung on a tree or wreath. You can also use a recipe for a baked gingerbread man ornament that is for decorative purposes only.