Gingerbread Village SVG

About this design

Gingerbread houses look best in a group, and this design gives you two at once. A big house stands at the back with a soft, frosted roofline, a small paned window and a dotted door. In front of it, at the right, a smaller cottage has a steep roof outlined in icing, a little starburst decoration under the peak, an arched door with dotted trim and a round knob. Together they look like a corner of a snowy gingerbread village.

The design is two pieces, one for each house, with eighteen cut-outs for the windows, doors and icing dots. The shapes are bold and well spaced, so it passes our cut checks from about 2 inches wide, small enough for gift tags.

Color layers

• Backing in cream, which becomes the icing, windows and dots
• Design in gingerbread brown, both houses

Village projects

• Holiday cards with a cozy village scene.
• Mantel and shelf decorations in layered cardstock.
• Gift tags for neighbors.
• Real estate closing gifts for a December move.
• Christmas village backdrops.
• Advent calendar fronts.

Size and cutting tips

It passes our cut checks from about 2 inches wide. For cards, 4 to 5 inches wide works well. For a mantel piece, 8 to 10 inches. Because the houses are separate pieces, you can also space them apart or cut them in different colors.

Step by step: neighbor gift tags

1. Set the village to 3 inches wide and download the color SVG.
2. Cut the brown layer from kraft cardstock and the backing from white.
3. Glue them together and punch a hole in the top corner.
4. Write “From our house to yours” on the back.
5. Tie the tag to a jar of cookies or a loaf of banana bread.

Color ideas

• Brown with cream icing, the classic
• One brown house and one pink house for a candy street
• Dark brown with white for a chocolate village
• Red and green houses with white icing for a festive scene

Good to know

The big house behind has a simpler outline on purpose: it sets off the detailed cottage in front and gives the scene depth, like a house farther down the street. If you cut the two houses in different shades of brown, with the back house darker, the depth effect becomes even stronger.

Variations to try

• Mirror it in the editor so the cottage sits on the left.
• Ungroup it and space the houses apart for a wider street.

Pairs well with

The Tall Gingerbread House adds height to the street, and the Gingerbread Train Engine can pull into town.