How to Draw Ginger Cookies

Ginger cookies are a staple holiday treats. In fact, the gingerbread man has become such an integral part of the holidays that gingerbread men are used as decorations on Christmas trees, holiday coloring books and even animated movies. Drawing a gingerbread man cookie can be done with a few basic shapes. Once this image is drawn you can color it with markers and use colored pencils for highlights to give your illustration extra pizazz.

Things You'll Need

• Paper
• Pencil
• Black ink pen
• Kneaded eraser
• Marker in brown, orange, blue and beige
• Colored pencils in white and yellow

Instructions

1. 

   Draw the head of the ginger cookie man with a circle in the upper middle of the page. Add a vertical line under the head. Attach two diagonal lines, one pointing to the upper right corner of the page the other pointing to the upper left corner of the page for the arms. Add two diagonal lines to the bottom of the vertical line. One of these should point to the bottom left corner and the other should point toward the bottom right corner.

2. 

   Draw the eyes with two small circles on the face. Add the smile with a line that curves up on the left and right sides. Draw a bell shaped rectangle attached to the bottom of the head for the body. Attach curved lines around each arm and leg.

3. 

   Draw the buttons with three small circles on the vertical line of the ginger cookie man. Draw the bow tie with two triangles under the chin. These triangles should point together. Add a small circle in the middle of the the two triangles.

4. 

   Erase the guidelines and ink the picture of the gingerbread man. Let the ink dry and erase the pencil lines.

5. 

   Color the body of the gingerbread man brown. Color the buttons orange and the bow tie blue. Color the icing eyes and mouth beige. Let the ink dry and add highlights to the cookie, using colored pencils. Use beige to lightly highlight the cookie body. Add yellow highlights to the orange buttons with small circles inside the orange buttons. Add white highlights to the bow tie.

Tips & Warnings

• Make photocopies of the illustration in Step 4.

• Place a sheet of paper under your illustration to prevent the ink from bleeding through the page.

Resources

• A great ginger cookie recipe.
• A large series of crafts involving the Gingerbread Man from the Shrek movies.