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Decorate and set up your own gingerbread dwelling with these Gorgeous Gingerbread House Crafts for Kids! Lots of crafts with paper, cardboard, felt & more!

Christmas decorations are pretty classic around the world, and you’re sure to find red and white candy canes, green and red mistletoe and lots of shiny baubles. But there’s something else that’s an icon of Christmas, and that’s the elaborately constructed gingerbread house!

Legend has it that the gingerbread house has been around since medieval times and now gingerbread house making is a separate profession! It’s no wonder, if you consider the amount of painstaking detail that goes into each house!

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However, today, we’re not going to make anything that difficult. Instead, we’re going to enjoy the gorgeousness of gingerbread houses without too much trouble, with these adorable gingerbread house crafts for kids. Scratch that – these are crafts for kids and everyone else in the family too!

Gingerbread house making can get messy, but Mrs Winter’s Bliss promises us that this one is mess-free! This project is so cute and that little gingerbread girl just lights up your day!

This card from I Heart Crafty Things is sure to make the recipient smile all over her face! It’s quite a clever project, with all the main elements of gingerbread houses included without making it look cluttered.

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Set up your own little gingerbread layout with this Popsicle stick house from Fireflies and Mudpies. This is easy to make with regular craft supplies that you already have lying around at home.

We’re a huge fan of felt plushies, especially holiday-themed ones! This little felt gingerbread house is no different, and we love the details like the snow on the roof and the chimney!

Brown paper bags are just begging to be turned into gingerbread houses, aren’t they? Tikkido seems to think so, and that’s why they’ve put up a simple craft that also doubles up as a storage for treats!

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If you’ve got old pasta lying around, we highly recommend this project from Chica Circle! Take an old birdhouse and give it new life with some paint and pasta in different shapes.

Gingerbread houses can also decorate the outside of your house, as The Keeper of the Cheerios shows with this project! Love all those Christmas themed little trinkets hanging from the top!

How cute are these little clay gingerbread house ornaments? Projects with Kids shows us how easy it is to make custom ornaments for your tree with regular clay pots you can find anywhere.

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Milk cartons oddly look like town houses, don’t they? Which is probably why they work perfectly as gingerbread houses too, with a few add ons! Check out the full tutorial to make this project over at Crafts by Amanda.

Want a fully decorated gingerbread house in just a few steps? Ayelet Keshet has the solution, with printable gingerbread houses! The best part is that you can color it any way you like.

It’s past Halloween, but that doesn’t mean that it’s not the season for treats! The Craft Patch Blog gives us an easy way to make a gingerbread house treat box, that also doubles up as cute decor for the mantle.

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Do the little people in your home want to make their own gingerbread houses but all the crafts are too complicated for them? No problem, let them just try out this paper collage from Non Toy Gifts! Simple but really pretty!

This cardboard gingerbread house from Project Kid is so adorable, we wish it was livable! You can decorate this any way you like and it’ll still look pretty – don’t forget that shredded ‘snow’ around the house!

Can you see the lights inside these little gingerbread houses? Makes you wonder if there are little elves living inside! Little Red Window brings us a cute little project that would also work well as a centerpiece for your dinner table.

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Got paper? Well, that’s pretty much all you need to make this gingerbread house from Instructables! Some plain scrapbook paper and some Christmas theme patterned paper and you’re all set to make this cute craft.

Put those craft sticks to good use by making these super cute ornaments from Learning and Exploring through Play. You can hang them on your tree or make a slightly bigger version to hang on the wall.

A busy bag is always handy especially if you have a bit of traveling to do this holiday season. The Gingerbread House has a cute idea for a gingerbread house busy bag, so your little one can have fun decorating it to his heart’s content.

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If you’ve been thinking of setting up a Christmas village, try out this gingerbread house version from Hello Wonderful. This is an easy paper craft, so you should have a full set of houses ready in no time at all!

If you’d like something a little more artsy fartsy, try out this painted gingerbread house from Step by Step Painting. And don’t worry, they’ll guide you all the way through, even providing a template for download.

What’s a house whose doors don’t open? That seems to be the philosophy behind this cute house from 10 Minutes of Quality Time. Open the doors and say ‘Hi’ to two incredibly cheery little gingerbread people!

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Aren’t these just beautiful? And as you can see, they aren’t too difficult to make – you can choose a project based on the time and effort required. Get the whole family involved or gather the cousins and have a gingerbread house making competition – and keep the camera ready to capture some lovely memories!

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Is a digital art education platform that provides busy parents & hobby enthusiasts a path to creating beautiful art & craft at home with their children.Learn how to paint a Gingerbread House with acrylic paints on canvas. This was so much fun to paint! I’ve been wanting to do a gingerbread house painting for awhile now and finally put a tutorial together for it. This tutorial will guide you through the steps of how I did this painting but it’s certainly open for a lot of customization!

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This is a fun Christmas Canvas Painting you can do with your kids as well. I provide a traceable so you don’t have to worry about drawing the house. Think of all the creative possibilities and types of candies you can add to this design!

You’ll need a large wash brush (I used a 3/4″) and the colors light blue permanent and titanium white. Double load the brush and paint long up and down strokes. Let the colors blend on the canvas without blending all the way together so that it looks “icy” in the sky.

If you’re using the printable, get it ready and printed on a standard size computer paper. Place it over the graphite paper and trace with a pencil. The design will transfer to the canvas. Note: the placement of the traceable is about three fingers up from the bottom of the canvas.

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Use your 3/4″ flat brush and titanium white to “cut in” on that hill line and fill the entire area solid white.

Use raw sienna and your 3/4″ flat brush. Paint up and down strokes except for the area where you need to “cut in” on the roof and paint diagonally. Note: you can switch to a smaller #4 bright brush to get into the tighter areas.

Grab some white on your brush and lightly blend it in with the raw sienna “dry brush style”. This gives the brown in the gingerbread house some color variation.

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Use a #4 bright brush to paint the door raw umber. Leave some gaps around the door but don’t worry about getting the edging perfect because that will be painted over with white later.

Optional: you can dip your brush in a tiny bit of blue and blend it into the white a bit for some color variation and shadow in the snow.

Next use any brush to paint the red stripes on the door trim and the chimney (I used my #5). The exact color of red I used was cadmium red medium.

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The colors on my palette for the gumdrops are: cadmium red medium, cadmium yellow medium, light green permanent and primary blue. Because it’s no fun to constantlyswitch colors, I painted all the red gum drops first and then continued onto the next colors.

Optional: When painting the path, try to make the gum drops get slightly larger towards the bottom to create a sense of “depth”. I also angled my path a bit. The shape of these ground gum drops is a basic oval shape.

Next I painted the swirls coming out of the chimney with titanium white and that same #5 round brush. Also I switched to a 10/0 liner to paint tiny dots on the roof gum drops and a reflection line on the ground gum drops.Oh and also – that door knob!