Gingerbread coloring pages

The gingerbread coloring pages come straight from the baking season: a tray of star, heart and bell cookies, two hands piping icing onto a star, Santa and Mrs. Claus cutting out dough, and a gingerbread family holding hands in a row.

For little ones, the simple sheets are a gingerbread man sitting beside a mug of cocoa and the Gingerbread Man running away with icing footprints behind him. The house in the snow and the cottage with a candy cane fence are full of small details.

Gingerbread is one warm brown, so the fun is in the icing. Color the cookie in light brown or tan and leave the icing lines white, or trace them with a white gel pen on top. Candy canes and the candy on the houses are where the bright colors go.

Stories come into it too: the Gingerbread Man, who runs from everyone until he meets the fox, and Hansel and Gretel finding the house in the forest. A sheet can be colored while the cookies cool, and the QR code opens the tale for afterward.