Gingerbread man craft for kids

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As part of my series on Christmas activities for kids, I’m sharing this cute gingerbread man craft the kids and I did recently.

For some reason, Christmas and crafts just go together for me. So I’m always looking for fun little crafts my kids can do. Lately I’ve been a bit fascinated by gingerbread men. So I wanted to put together a simple gingerbread man craft that the kids could do. Due to QBoy’s gluten allergy, using real gingerbread men was out of the question. But I came up with this cute Christmas craft instead. And unlike cookies, these gingerbread men can be displayed on the wall when they are done. 🙂

I prepared a tray for each of my kids with the following items:

A gingerbread man template (from my Gingerbread Man Templates printable)
Glue
Markers
Buttons
Googly eyes
Colored pasta
Sequins

Both kids took their own approach to decorating their gingerbread man. XGirl did a little with the markers but was more excited about glueing on objects.

QBoy, who has a newfound love of coloring, spent most of the time drawing clothes on his gingerbread man. But eventually he added some embellishments as well.