Paper Gingerbread Patterns offers gingerbread house recipes and patterns plus tips for making simple, beginning level gingerbread houses, also known as Lebkuchen cottages or Hansel and Gretel houses.
Christmas and winter holiday activities and crafts, geared toward toddlers, preschool and kindergarten age children.
Gingerbread houses, whether decorated simply or covered with candies, icing and other treats, are popular Christmas decorations, plus they are wonderful and unique, home-made gifts and make impressive centerpieces during the holidays.
Making gingerbread houses and cookies can also be fun family activities for any holiday or special occasion.
Learn how to make a gingerbread house or castle with step-by-step instructions and trace and cut out patterns. Make your gingerbread decorating a success with these simple, printable and basic cookie, house and castle worksheet patterns.
Here are some very basic patterns to help with the construction of your gingerbread house.
These patterns are formatted to print on regular 8 1/2" x 11" paper or larger.
Print out each piece and cut around the template on the rolled out gingerbread dough to create a house design.
Did you know that gingerbread was brought to Europe by the Crusaders many centuries ago? Learn more about gingerbread at Wikipedia.
