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A gingerbread house is the most fun Christmas drawing you can make, because the candy is the whole point. This version comes from the dad-and-son team at Art for Kids Hub. You draw an A-shaped roof held up by two candy canes, drip frosting off the edges, then pile on peppermints, gumdrops and a chimney puffing popcorn smoke. Color it brown and rainbow and you are done in about fifteen minutes.
You need a black marker, a sheet of paper and colored pencils. That's it.
The house is only three shapes: a triangle roof, two candy cane hooks and a ground line. Everything else is decoration. That makes it a good drawing for kids who get stuck on straight walls and corners. The candy canes stand in for the side walls, so nothing has to line up exactly.
Once the door is in, the house is finished. The candy is up to you. Pause the video there and decorate your own way if you like. Building a real gingerbread house takes an afternoon and a lot of icing. This one takes a marker and a lot less mess.
Plain printer paper is fine for practice. For a piece you want to keep, a heavier drawing paper takes colored pencil better and won't wrinkle when you press hard on the brown. A fine point black permanent marker gives you the bold outline in the video. The coloring is done with colored pencils. Markers are faster for young kids, and crayons work too. Use a medium brown for the gingerbread and save the bright colors for the candy.
Swap the peppermints for round windows with frosting crosses. Add a gingerbread man standing by the door. Line the roof with candy canes instead of gumdrops, or draw chocolate bar shingles in a grid. A few snowflakes in the sky and snow piled on the roof turn it into a winter scene. Try a pink and white candy house for a different look.
Fold a sheet in half and draw the house on the front for a homemade Christmas card. Small ones make sweet Christmas gift tags. Teachers can have a whole class draw one and line the hallway with a gingerbread village. Cut one out and tape it to a window, or hang it on the fridge next to the homemade Christmas ornaments your kids made.
Want more Christmas drawings? Try how to draw a gingerbread man to stand by your door, how to draw a candy cane, or how to draw a house for a regular one.
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Draw a gingerbread house in 10 easy steps: candy cane posts, frosting icicles, peppermints, gumdrops and a chimney, then color it in. An easy project: about 40 minutes. You need 4 things, including colored pencils or washable markers, black fine point permanent marker and pencil and eraser. The 10 steps start with draw the A-Shaped Gingerbread House Roof, draw the Candy Cane Posts Under the Gingerbread House Roof and add Curved Stripes to the Gingerbread House Candy Canes.
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In the middle of your paper, draw a big A shape with no line across it. Go up to a point and back down the other side. Make it big. The bigger the roof, the more room you have for candy later. Leave space below it, since the candy cane posts and the ground go underneath.
Start the roof a little above the center of the page so the snow and sidewalk fit at the bottom.
Under each end of the roof, draw a candy cane hook that curls up to meet the roof and comes back down. Draw a ground line that runs across the bottom past both posts. Then draw the inside curve of each cane down to the ground and close off the hook end. Try to make both canes the same size so the house looks even.
If your ground line comes out crooked, call it a hill. It still works.
Draw stripes down each candy cane. Curve every stripe a little instead of drawing a straight line across. That curve makes the cane look round, like a real 3D candy cane. On the left cane, slant them one way. On the right cane, slant them the other way so the two posts mirror each other.
Space the stripes about a finger apart. Too close and they blur together when you color.
Start at one bottom corner of the roof. Draw a wavy line of little icicles hanging down from the roof line, all the way up to the peak and back down the other side. It looks like frosting dripping off the roof. Some icicles will come out longer than others. That's fine. It makes the icing look melted.
Keep the drips short near the peak and a little longer near the corners.
Draw two tall lines down the middle of the house to the ground and connect them at the top. Make the door big. Then draw a wobbly frosting line all the way around the outside of the door. It looks like the door is glued shut with icing. Finish with a small circle for the doorknob.
Keep the door centered under the roof peak so the house looks balanced.
Draw a circle above the door for a peppermint candy. Add lines through it like a pinwheel so it looks like a striped mint. Add another peppermint on each side of the door. Three is a good number, but you can add more if you have room. These are the first candy decorations on your house.
Draw an X and a plus sign through each circle to get even pinwheel stripes.
Draw big upside-down U shapes next to the door and along the bottom for gumdrops. Add a few dots on each one for the sugar coating. Then line the whole roof edge with smaller gumdrops, one connected to the next, from one corner over the peak to the other. These get colored in rainbow colors later, so draw plenty.
Turn your paper as you go over the roof. It is easier to draw the gumdrops upright.
On one side of the roof, draw a short line up and a longer line next to it, then connect the top. That's your chimney. Add a little frosting on top. Above it, draw puffy bumps of smoke that look like popcorn, curling up from the chimney. Connect the bottom of the smoke cloud so it is a closed shape.
Put the chimney on the roof slope, not the peak, so it does not cover your gumdrops.
Below the door, draw a few small rectangles stacked down the page. They make a candy sidewalk leading up to the house. They do not need to be straight. Then draw a wild wobbly line under the ground on each side that connects to the sidewalk. That's a pile of snow, or extra frosting, holding the house up.
Make the snow line bumpy and uneven. Snowbanks are never flat.
Color the walls and chimney a medium brown. Leave the icicles, door trim, snow and smoke white so they read as frosting. Color the candy cane stripes and peppermints red. Make the gumdrops every color of the rainbow. Give the sidewalk blocks bright colors too. The brown house with all that candy is what makes it look like gingerbread.
Color all the brown first. Then go back and add the candy colors so they stay bright.
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What shape starts the gingerbread house?
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1.What shape starts the gingerbread house?
Answer: A big A shape for the roof
The roof comes first and sets how much room the candy gets later.
2.Why curve each candy cane stripe instead of drawing it straight?
Answer: It makes the cane look round
A curved stripe wraps around the cane, which makes it look 3D.
3.Which parts stay white when you color?
Answer: The icicles, trim and snow
White areas read as frosting and snow against the brown gingerbread.
4.What does the chimney smoke look like in this drawing?
Answer: Puffy popcorn bumps
Round, puffy bumps keep the smoke in the same candy style as the house.
5.Why make the roof big at the very start?
Answer: It gives room for candy later
Icicles, gumdrops and the chimney all hang off the roof line.
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