These fun printable gingerbread house drawing and writing prompts will keep the kids busy decorating and colouring a gingerbread house, and writing about who lives there.
There’s no messy frosting, no roof to fall in, and no sugar rush, and you can print as many copies as you want and decorate as many gingerbread houses as you like!
This gingerbread house drawing prompt offers a starting point to spark your kids imaginations and encourage creativity. It’s a bit different to a traditional coloring page because kids need to add their own designs and ideas. There are no right or wrong ways to decorate the gingerbread house, and there is no ‘coloring in the lines’ to worry about, so it’s a great way to encourage a reluctant drawer, and a great boredom buster.
It may not be quite the same as decorating a real gingerbread house, but the kids will have lots of fun decorating this gingerbread house and colouring it in, and it’s a quick and easy Christmas activity for all ages.
Once you’ve decorated the gingerbread house, you might like to write a story about it too. The matching gingerbread house printable writing pages turns this art activity into an easy literacy activity too.
Free Printable Gingerbread House Drawing Prompt.
What will your gingerbread house look like?
Will there be candy canes sticking out the chimney?
Or how about some sprinkles over the door?
Will you draw someone who lives in the gingerbread house?
You can decorate your gingerbread house with pencils or markers, or you could use collage items to make it extra fancy!
You can download the printable gingerbread house drawing prompt here.
Gingerbread House Writing Prompt Printable
Decorating and colouring the gingerbread house is a fun Christmas art activity on it’s own, but you can extend the activity by combing it with a gingerbread house themed writing task.
Once they have decorated the gingerbread house, the kids can use these printable gingerbread house writing pages to write about it. These printable writing pages make a great ‘print and go’ literacy activity that can be adapted for lots of different ages and abilities.
There are two printable gingerbread house drawing pages. One has a writing prompt question at the top “Who lives in with the gingerbread house?” And one is simply a lined page with decorations.
These printables are A4 sized pdf files, you will need a pdf reader such as adobe acrobat to open them. If you are printing on US ‘letter sized’ paper be sure to select ‘fit’ or ‘shrink to fit’ from your printer options.
Please remember that the printables at picklebums.com are for personal use only, you may not sell, share, or link directly to these files.
We’d love to see how you use these gingerbread house writing and drawing prompts.
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If your kids loved this fun gingerbread house activity, you might also these easy, ‘print and go’, Christmas activities:
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