How to Draw a Gingerbread Man for Kids

Easy How to Draw a Gingerbread Man Tutorial and Gingerbread Man Coloring Page

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Learn how to draw a Gingerbread Man and his colorful frosting decorations. Add a shadow to give him some extra dimension.

Gingerbread Man Drawing

A drawing of a Gingerbread Man, made with the help of an easy step by step tutorial.

Learning how to draw a Gingerbread Man may sound like a pretty easy task, as the cookie shape is pretty basic. But if your students are drawing from memory, they may not recall some of the little touches that make him look extra adorable. Like the squiggle of frosting for the sleeves, bow tie, and buttons. And the slightly turned out toes. And the shadow to one side so that he has a cookie-like thickness, not flat like a piece of paper.

If your students use this tutorial to help them add all those extra touches to their drawing, they are bound to have an extra charming holiday drawing.

Getting Started with Drawing Guides

The best way to get students off to a good start to any drawing lesson is to show them how to use guides as a reference point.

You may have noticed that all of the tutorials on this site have a dashed line running through the center of each step, in both horizontal and vertical directions. If students make theirown centered lines on theirown paper, before drawing, they will have an easy reference to follow.

For instance, as seen in Step 1 below, the head needs to start halfway down the paper, centered on the middle line. It's important to get that shape in a good size and place, before adding the rest of the gingerbread man body.

Drawing skills are all about getting the size and placement of lines on paper, so having some visual reference point to get started, will always help anyone learn how to be a little more accurate.

So does that mean students need to get out a ruler to draw a big fat line down the center of their paper before they start? Goodness no, please don't! That will most likely be hard to erase and distract from any finished art. No, simply fold the sheet of paper in half both ways, make a crease, and unfold. The beauty is that by the time the drawing is done and colored in, the creases will disappear.

And now, on to the poppy drawing project.

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A step by step tutorial for how to draw an easy Gingerbread Man, also available as a free download.

Gingerbread Man Coloring Page

Materials for a Gingerbread Man Drawing

Eraser. Large ones you can hold in your hand do a much better job than just the pencil tip erasers, especially when erasing leftover pencil lines after tracing.

Black Sharpie Marker. These fine point permanent marker pens make nice black outlines, have a good tip for coloring, and never bleed when they get wet. Use them with good ventilation and add extra paper underneath to protect your tables.

Prang Crayons. These are a bit softer than other crayons so they sometimes look like oil pastels. They also have a some nice brown shades that Crayola does not have unless you buy their larger boxes.

Crayola Crayons. The reliable brand that always works well. The 24 pack has some of my favorite golden orange and yellow colors that seem a bit richer and warmer than the ones Prang has.