Cardstock Gingerbread House Craft

 

Need a fun Kids Christmas Craft Activity?

This Cardstock Gingerbread House is so cute it looks like it’s made of real Gingerbread- except it’s much easier and neater!

Check out our other great Christmas Crafts HERE.

List of Supplies:

1. Cardstock paper – brown
2. Styrofoam balls – both colored and white
3. White poster color
4. Paint brush
5. Pencil or pen – for tracing the template
6. Scissors
7. Craft glue or glue stick

Instructions:

Step 1:

Select brown colored cardstock paper for this craft and prepare the patterns from the template by printing and cutting them out. Trace the template patterns using a pencil, on the selected cardstock paper. The template includes 2 patterns, 1 for the roof and 1 for the house.  Click HERE to print the Template.

Step 2:

Use poster color to paint borders, door and windows on the front side of the house cut out. Allow the paint to dry after the painting is done.

Step 3:

Fold the house cut out. Follow the lines inside the house template pattern for folding it. Fold along the shown lines.

Step 4:

Apply glue along the extra thin part of the house pattern and attach it with the part next to it to close all 4 sides of the house.

Step 5:

Take the roof cut out. Paint borders and tile patterns on the roof. Paint any pattern you want and once the painting is done allow it dry.

Step 6:

After the painting dries fold the roof cut out into half along the traced line shown in the template.

Step 7:

Apply glue and join the roof on the top side of the house.

Step 8:

Grab both white and colored Styrofoam balls. Cut the Styrofoam balls into half.

Step 9:

Glue the half cut Styrofoam balls on the house (and roof) to decorate it.

Step 10:

Decorate the borders of the roof and the sides of the house.

Step 11:

Keep adding until the decoration looks nice or complete.

Allow the glue to dry and done!

Be sure to pin for later!