Free Printable Gingerbread House Coloring Pages

These free printable gingerbread house coloring pages are no-prep Christmas fun! Use them to keep your littles busy while you wrap presents or use them as a fun family activity whenever you need a break from the busy holiday season. Keep scrolling to snag 11 unique (and free!) Christmas gingerbread house coloring sheets. There are also instructions showing you how to use printable coloring pages as homemade Christmas cards.

If you love Christmas, you’ve come to the right place. Make sure to stop by this page of free Christmas printables for party games, templates, additional coloring pages, and more. Turn these pages into a cut and paste activity when you add elements from these free printable snowman templates, gingerbread man templates, and star templates.

A preview of five free printable gingerbread house coloring pages for Christmas. Each page has a gingerbread house to color with candy and characters out front. Three pages have snowmen and one has a nutcracker holding a snow globe.

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Printable coloring pages can be so much better than purchasing a printed coloring book. You don’t have to worry about your color choices. If you aren’t happy with the way the page turned out, you can just print a new copy and color it again.

For professional-feeling coloring pages that are fun to color, make sure to use a nicer paper (not whatever cheap feeling paper is in the printer at work). You can see side-by-side companions of the best papers for printables in this post. It focuses on planner printables, but papers that are good for colorful printouts are also good for coloring on.

I use and recommend HP 32# paper for coloring pages. It’s thicker and brighter than “regular” copy paper, which helps keep markers from feathering. The paper also feels smoother, so pencils and crayons glide and color smoothly on it.

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For a glittery Christmas coloring experience, color these pages with gel pens. Even if you don’t want to use all your ink coloring the whole page, at least add some sparkly accents! How about some twinkle on the snow with a silver pen? Or sparkly red candy canes? Check out this post for the best gel pens for coloring, including a great budget pick. The shortversion is that the pens shown below are the best overall and best budget pick:

Best Gel Pens

Sakura Gelly Roll Pens Gift Set, Ice Cream Smooth Gel Ink with Special...

Best Budget Pick

Gel Pens, 36 Colors Gel Pens Set for Adult Coloring Books, Colored Gel Pen...

Sakura Gelly Roll Pens Gift Set, Ice Cream Smooth Gel Ink with Special...

Best Gel Pens

Sakura Gelly Roll Pens Gift Set, Ice Cream Smooth Gel Ink with Special...

Best Budget Pick

Gel Pens, 36 Colors Gel Pens Set for Adult Coloring Books, Colored Gel Pen...

In my experience, the best budget markers for coloring Crayola Supertips. They’re a bargain and fun for adults and children. The fine tip makes them better than many other markers for coloring details. Because there are dozens of shades, they’re great for colorful Christmas pages.

CYO585050 - Crayola Washable Super Tips Fine Line Markers

Manufacturer: Crayola

Some of the best colored pencils are Prismacolors. Even the more budget lines of Prismacolor colored pencils are softer and creamier than brands like Crayola. Prismacolors color easily and are great for blending. A colorless Prismacolor blending pencil is the perfect tool for the job if you want to start blending colored pencils.

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How to turn coloring pages into Christmas cards

It’s fun, easy, and practically free to print your own Christmas cards using coloring pages.

To turn these coloring pages into cards or post cards, simply print multi-up. For post cards, print 4 to a page, then cut them apart with a paper trimmer. The coloring pages are in portrait mode, so mach sure you select “portrait” when you print. The screenshot below if from Acrobat Reader, which is free to download if you don’t have it already:

A print preview box from Acrobat reader wooing printing four gingerbread house coloring pages as Christmas cards.

For a large, fold over card, print using the “booklet” feature in Acrobat Reader. Select the “print front only” option, as shown, to make sure the card folds correctly. You may also need to select the specific page you want in the “pages to print” area.

A print preview box from Acrobat reader wooing printing a gingerbread house coloring page as a Christmas card.

Free printable Christmas gingerbread house coloring pages

The coloring page printables are shown two at a time to help this page load more quickly. Each sheet has its own page in your printable PDF. Download information and license terms are located below the previews.

Two free printable Christmas gingerbread coloring pages. The page on the left has a snowman in front of the house and the page on the let has a Christmas gnome.

Two free printable Christmas gingerbread coloring pages. The page on the left has a family of four snowmen in front of the hose and the page not eh right has a jumping Christmas gnome.

Two free printable Christmas gingerbread coloring pages. The page on the left has a gingerbread man with a Santa hat and the page on the left has a snowman with a Christmas gnome.

Two free printable Christmas gingerbread coloring pages. The page on the left has a waving gingerbread and the page on the right has candy canes in front of the house

Two free printable Christmas gingerbread coloring pages. The page on the left has a nutcracker with a snow globe and the page not eh right has a Christmas owl with Christmas presents

A free printable Gingerbread house coloring page with "Merry Christmas" in bubble letters at the top.

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I hope you enjoy coloring these gingerbread house coloring pages! Be sure to check out these additional Christmas printables while you’re here:

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