Gingerbread Man Christmas Tag SVG

About this design

Tie this to a tin of cookies and the label explains itself. The whole tag is the cookie: round head, stubby arms held straight out, legs apart, and a small ring on top of the head where the string goes. No hole has been punched through the figure.

Cream icing does the decorating, with two round eyes, a wide smile, a pair of belly buttons and a short piped line on each wrist and ankle. His back is an empty brown space, big enough for a short message once he is cut at a reasonable size.

Color layers

• Base and lines in almost-black green: every part of the design, cut as the foundation
• Tag in cookie brown: the body, the hands and the hanging ring
• Picture in cream: all of the icing

Pieces and weeding

The solid file has 10 pieces and 10 cut-outs, more than the simple outline suggests. The biggest piece is the figure itself, with hands, feet and hanging ring all attached, so it dangles from its string as one cookie. The nine others are icing: the smile, two eyes, two buttons and four short lines, each floating in its own channel within the arms, legs, face or belly. Those nine channels and the opening in the ring make up the cut-outs. Because the icing parts touch nothing, they need a backing card or transfer tape to stay put. It passes our cut checks from about 2.5 inches wide.

From brown card to cookie

1. Size the figure to 3 or 4 inches wide and cut the solid file from brown cardstock.
2. Cut the outer shape only from cream or white for the backing.
3. Glue the figure down, keeping its edges level with the card beneath.
4. Set the eyes, smile, buttons and four short lines into their channels. Or leave those small parts out entirely, and the backing will show through as ready-made cream icing.
5. Clear the ring in the backing with a small punch so the twine can pass.

For an easier evening, print in color and use Print Then Cut, which also covers anything under 2.5 inches.

Size guide

A job for small helpers

Pre-cut a stack of plain brown figures and hand them over with cream paint pens, so children can pipe their own faces and buttons in place of gluing the small parts. Older kids can manage the glued icing with tweezers. The ring is a slim strip of paper, so thread it with thin twine and skip the wide ribbon.

Pairs well with

The Santa Face Christmas Tag has the same friendly look, and the gingerbread collection offers matching projects for the cookie plate itself.