How to Draw a Gingerbread Man

Today, let’s learn How to Draw a Gingerbread Man! In this post you will find step by step instructions for creating an Easy Gingerbread Man drawing in just 5 steps. This fun lesson was scanned from a vintage children’s book in my collection. At the bottom of the post you will find a printable practice worksheet that you can print out, with some blank space included, so that you can practice right on the page. Practice drawing these and then create dozens of Gingerbread Men if you like! You can print out as many of the worksheets as you want to share with your Family, Sunday School Class, Classroom, Creative friends meet up, Senior Center and more. Now let’s get drawing! For Non Commercial Use. 

Gingerbread Man Drawing Step by Step

Kids or grown ups alike can follow these simple steps with this Gingerbread Man Drawing guide! I would recommend creating your drawing with a pencil, as you can erase if you have any mistakes. But you can always draw over it with an ink Pen or marker when you are done, to define it some more. You might find our Drawing Supplies for Beginners Post HERE useful. Have fun creating some of these yummy treats!

How to Draw a Gingerbread Man Step 1

Step 1: First, let’s draw the body of the gingerbread man. Start by drawing a circle for the head and continue with sketching the arms raising upward and continue onto the legs. Notice the arms and legs are rounded.

Step 2

Step 2: Next, draw the outline of his clothing, and hat, by drawing a curved line along the head, arms, and legs.

Step 3

Step 3: Then, emphasize the gingerbread man’s clothes by sketching a few broken lines along the edges.

Step 4

Step 4: Now, it’s time to make your cute cookie man more unique by designing the face and adding a small hat on its head. You can copy the face that you see above or get creative and make a different sort of face on him. Just use simple shapes, as it should look like icing, candy or raisins.

Step 5

Step 5: And, finally, finish your sweet guy by adding additional details to his clothes. Add a little bow tie for under his chin and a some raisin buttons for his shirt. Notice that the buttons are not perfectly shaped. So cute!

The only thing left to do now is to color in your sweet confection! Go grab your markers, Crayola crayons, oil pastels or color pencils, or whatever you have on hand, and finish your artwork masterpiece! This one is colored in with brown dough and white icing and a few touches of red, but you can let your creativity go wild and use whatever colors you like! You get to decide!

How to Draw Gingerbread Man Worksheet

Click HERE to Download the Free Printable PDF of the Drawing Worksheet

Don’t forget to download the free practice sheet above so that you can print it out and hone your skills! There is plenty of space at the bottom of the sheet so that you can practice right on it. Great for Kids or Adults. I hope you enjoyed these easy steps and that you had fun with this Easy Drawing tutorial. 

Here are a few other easy Drawing Tutorials that you might like as well:

How to Draw a Pumpkin
How to Draw an Acorn
How to Draw Pears
How to Draw Dragonfly
How to Draw a Pirate
How to Draw a Peach
How to Draw Dandelion
How to Draw a Red Rose
How to Draw a Cute Mushroom

All of the lessons above also include the free Printable Practice sheets that were included with this one.

You might also like our post all about coloring with Colored Pencils HERE.