Gingerbread Man in a Santa Hat SVG

About this design

Two Christmas classics meet in this design. A round, friendly gingerbread man wears a floppy Santa hat that tips over to one side, with a wide fur band and a fluffy pom-pom on the end. Below the hat he has round eyes, a big smile and three buttons, and wavy lines of icing decorate his arms and the tops of his legs.

He is a single connected piece with eleven cut-outs. In the layered version, the hat’s fur band, the pom-pom, the face, buttons and icing all show the cream backing, so the hat looks trimmed in white fur and the cookie looks freshly iced. The design passes our cut checks from about 5 inches tall, because the wavy icing lines are thin.

Color layers

• Backing in cream, which becomes the fur trim and icing
• Design in gingerbread brown, the cookie and the hat

Projects

• Kids’ Christmas shirts. Add the child’s name under the figure.
• Baking aprons for holiday cookie days.
• Cookie plate labels for Santa’s treats on Christmas Eve.
• Treat bag toppers.
• Wood ornaments painted brown and red.
• Holiday party invitations.
• Classroom door decorations.

Size and cutting tips

It passes our cut checks from about 5 inches tall. The icing lines on the arms and legs are the finest parts, so cut slowly on glitter cardstock and use a fresh blade. For iron-on vinyl on a child’s shirt, 6 to 8 inches tall works well.

Step by step: three-color shirt

1. Set the design to 7 inches tall and download the color SVG.
2. Cut the cream backing from white iron-on vinyl and the brown layer from brown.
3. Cut a third copy of the brown layer from red vinyl and weed away everything except the hat.
4. Press the white backing first, then the brown cookie, then the red hat on top.
5. Press from the back of the shirt to finish.

Color ideas

• Brown cookie with a red hat and white trim, the classic
• Brown cookie with a green elf hat for a playful twist
• Gold glitter cookie with a red hat for a party
• All white on a red shirt for a single-color design

Good to know

The hat is part of the same piece as the head, so the solid style cuts as one shape. That means you only need to recolor the hat if you want to; a plain brown hat with a white trim still reads clearly as a Santa hat because of the pom-pom and the fur band.

Variations to try

• Mirror it in the editor so the hat tips the other way.
• Add the editor’s offset border in white for a die-cut sticker.

Pairs well with

The Classic Santa Hat is the hat on its own, and the Gingerbread Man Ornament is another way to hang him on the tree.