Use these free printable templates as coloring pages or craft patterns. Choose Black and white for detailed line art to color on paper, or Outline for a simple shape to trace onto paper, card or felt and cut out. Set your size, save a PDF, and print at 100% or Actual size.
Free for personal and commercial use, including shop decorations, classroom activities and promotional displays.
Choose from nine gingerbread characters, including a gift bearer, baker, carol singer, waving cookie, icing dress, heart hug, dancer, candy cane and seated star design. Set a size and download a PDF, SVG or transparent PNG for Christmas paper crafts.
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Width starts at 1 cm, with no fixed 100 cm limit. Height keeps the original proportions. Large designs can span up to 100 printed sheets. In free arrangement, use Fit all designs after enlarging a design; adding sheets alone does not enlarge it.
Outline: outer contour for tracing and cutting out. Black and white: detailed line art for coloring pages and craft templates. Color: ready-made decorations.
Place multiple illustrations wherever you like, at any size.
Applies when printing across multiple sheets. With no overlap, trim the blank margins and align the image edges.
Save a settings file to reuse later on this template page. Includes automatic arrangements, free layouts, paper, sizes and line thicknesses. Loading replaces the current settings; Undo restores them. Files are processed on your device.
Select an illustration to add it. Drag a design to move it. Use the top handle to rotate and the lower-right handle to resize.
Add enough sheets to fit every design at its current size.
2 across × 3 down = 6 sheets. Adding sheets keeps designs the same size.
Blue bands show where sheets overlap. Guides are not printed.
Use “Fit all designs” to adjust the canvas to fit every illustration without resizing it. To choose an exact size, open “Set width and height”.
The finished size and number of sheets appear at the top of the preview.
Blue bands show the 5 mm overlap between neighboring sheets. Trim the blank margin from one sheet, align the matching artwork, then tape or glue the sheets together.
Blue bands and sheet guides are not printed.
Making the canvas smaller does not shrink the illustrations. Anything outside the canvas is cropped when saving or printing.
Changing the paper or orientation keeps illustration sizes and positions unchanged. Up to 100 sheets are supported.
Make a gingerbread family for a classroom display, decorate handmade Christmas cards, or turn the characters into gift tags and a paper garland. The collection includes standing, dancing and seated poses with different icing details and accessories.
Choose ready-colored artwork, line art for coloring, or an outer outline to decorate yourself. Print small characters for cards or enlarge them across several sheets for a festive wall display. These are paper-craft illustrations, not edible cookie cutters or baking templates.
Select a name to open that illustration.
Choose Transparent PNG in the save menu. PNG uses the same sheets, sizes, quantities, styles and arrangement as PDF, with a transparent paper background. White areas inside the artwork stay white. One sheet downloads as a PNG; multiple sheets download together in a ZIP file.
Choose a width of at least 1 cm (about 0.4 inches). Larger sizes are supported within the 100-sheet limit. Oversized illustrations are split across pages using the overlap setting you choose. Match the ROW and COL labels and trim the blank margins. With overlap, align the repeated artwork in the 5 mm strip; with no overlap, place the image edges together without overlapping them. Tape the pages from the back. Small illustrations can fill a sheet, or you can choose a quantity.
Choose Arrange different illustrations, add the images you want, and select each placed image to change its size and style. Drag to move an image. Use the canvas controls for larger projects. Artwork outside the canvas is clipped in exported files. Expand the canvas to fit all designs when you want to include them fully. Selection borders do not appear in the downloaded PDF, SVG or transparent PNG.
Yes. You can use these illustrations in personal and commercial projects, including shop displays and classroom crafts. No sign-up is required.
Match the PDF paper size to your printer paper. Choose Actual size or 100% and turn off Fit to page and borderless enlargement. Check the 50 mm ruler after printing. SVG files include a small margin that increases with thick outlines, so the file dimensions are slightly larger than the illustration.
You can choose an illustration and save a PDF in your browser. Open the PDF in your printer app or a local print service, then check the paper size and scale. Printing options depend on that service.
Yes. Choose Transparent PNG to save the same sheets and settings as PDF with a transparent paper background. Multiple sheets are saved in one ZIP file.
Previewing and generating PDF, SVG and transparent PNG files happen in your browser. Your tool settings are not sent to our server.
There are nine designs: a gift-bearing gingerbread character in a Santa hat, a baker with a star cookie, a carol singer, a waving bow-tie cookie, a character in an icing dress, a heart-hugging cookie, a dancer with a scarf, a candy-cane holder and a seated star holder.
Yes. Choose the character you like and select line art. You can also select an outer outline for a simpler decorating activity. The white icing areas remain white in the colored designs.
Yes. The characters have broad rounded shapes for paper crafts. Younger children may need help around the candy cane and the spaces between arms or legs. An adult should supervise cutting.
No. These are printable illustrations for paper crafts, cards and decorations. They are not food-contact tools or baking instructions.
Download a printable PDF, an SVG or a transparent PNG in color, line art or outline. Print the PDF at 100% to preserve the selected size.
These are flat paper cutouts. Adults should help children with scissors or craft knives.