Digital Gingerbread House Art Project
Christmas activities for elementary are easy with my engaging, digital art project to build a gingerbread house on Google Slides™. Students will practice technology skills with my gingerbread house template and step by step art lesson. Then, pick a writing prompt to draft a creative story about their gingerbread home.
Need fun, fast finisher activities for 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders? Digital art projects are paperless, take up no space, and don’t use art materials. Simply assign the gingerbread project using your LMS, and stop worrying about early finishers!
Overview of How to Build a Gingerbread House on Google Slides
First, your students will pick a background. Then, they’ll choose a house. From there, they’ll add windows, a door, snow, chimney, trees, a wreath, etc. Lastly, your students will add candy to their gingerbread house.
NOTE
This digital resource was intentionally designed to work for all students, whether they celebrate Christmas or not. For those that don’t, you can copy the entire slide deck, rename it, and remove any graphics your student’s parents might find off-putting.
Technology Skills
- Copy & paste
- Drag & drop
- Rotating
- Ordering
- Resizing
What’s Included
- 11 Student Direction Slides, with step by step tutorial so kids can create their digital ugly sweater project independently
- Digital Moveable Pieces, so kids can either copy and paste or drag and drop to create their ugly Christmas sweater from the templates
- 7 Background Slides, where students will paste or drag their project pieces onto
- 2 Christmas Writing Prompts, for kids to complete after making their ugly sweater
- 4 Teacher Examples, fully completed, which you can use to demonstrate
You Will Receive
- 1 Non-Editable PDF (with access link & teacher directions)
- 1 Google Slides Doc (Digital Gingerbread House Activity & Writing Prompts)
Why You’ll Love It
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If I could give this more stars, I would! My students and I LOVED this! They had such a blast creating their gingerbread home. We turned it into a virtual class project and made a digital “book” of everyone’s creations – plus a small write up for each one. Thank you so much! I will be buying more!
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My students loved this activity. I used it just before winter break & it was a hit! As a matter of fact, this was one of the most enjoyed class activities that the students recalled at the end of the school year. I can’t wait to use it again next year!
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My class loved this resource! I had them build their gingerbread houses and write about it the day before leaving for the holiday break. They were engaged the whole time and I was amazed at the descriptive language they used to write about their gingerbread house. Thank you!
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marybelle E. –
Great way to get students to write descriptively!
Judith G. –
My students absolutely loved this resource. We used it along with a persuasive writing unit to convince readers to buy their gingerbread houses. It was amazing.. thank you!
Kathryn S. –
My 8th graders loved this activity and then we voted on our favorite house.
Stephanie R. –
My students love to do these! Such a fun way to work on Google Slides!
Stefany C. –
Super cute. Kids loved it! They loved making it a competition!
Mersedes S. –
This was a really fun activity that my kids loved to do! It definitely kept them busy for a long time haha
Caffeinated in Third (Teacher-Author) –
This was a perfect project to pair with some gingerbread read alouds before winter break! Thank you!
Courtney B. –
My students had SO MUCH FUN with this! They asked to work on their houses for weeks (I teach a specials class) to make several different houses. We turned them into a Christmas cards for their family to show off their work!
Pam L. –
This was a great, interactive resource. We designed a gingerbread unit for 5th grade, and this was a great addition. Thanks!
Stephanie S. –
An engaging way for the students to review important skills!
Angela A. –
I really enjoyed this resource for my students! A great pick!
Brittany Stuart –
This was a great resource to use before break. It kept my students engaged.
Danielle P. –
This resource was so fun for the holidays! My students loved creating the gingerbread houses and found the premade templates with drag and drop options on the side the most helpful!
My Growing Garden (Teacher-Author) –
Perfect just what I was looking for! My class had a lot of fun!
5th Grade is a BLAST (Teacher-Author) –
What a great way to engage students in the days before break.
Sara T. –
Graphics are amazing! I manipulated this resource for use in my music classroom.
Sunde Horton –
They liked it – it was just a large presentation to go through
Jessie Arnold –
Thank you!
The Cozy Classroom (Teacher-Author) –
This was a cute activity! It was fun to build our own gingerbread house.
Barbara Anne L. –
My students absolutely loved this!
Jessica H. –
This was the best activity I have used on TPT yet! My students loved that they were able to make their own unique house. It was easy to have them complete a descriptive writing prompt with it as well. I made this into a contest for my students by seeing how could describe their house the best.
Kaitlyn Hodges –
I actually used this as a station at our Winter Party day. My students were obsessed and went all in and created a Google Slides to showcase their class houses complete with a Google form to vote for their favorites! Such a fun activity!
Roberta T. –
Great actiovity for early finishers
Auburn S. –
The week before winter break we did a gingerbread house descriptive writing unit and this was a fun component!
Knox Your Ordinary Teacher by Jeanna Knox (Teacher-Author) –
This was a fun project!
Suzanne T. –
Fun winter activity! A very motivating way to practice Google slides skills in our homeschool. 🙂
Jada S. –
Love it! Works for all students and they have fun!
Markers and Magnolias (Teacher-Author) –
We did a whole gingerbread man unit and this was such a fun culminating activity! Thank you!
Katie C. –
No prep and very engaging! Great activity to do before the holidays.
christine S. –
My students loved using this activity during before we left for the winter break. It was a creative way for them to get in the holiday spirit while also practicing computer skills on their chromebooks. It was considerably less messy and cheaper than assembling real gingerbread houses!
Anne Marie M. –
My students had fun with this activity
Teach It with Tech (Teacher-Author) –
I teach virtually and this was a perfect activity for my class before winter break. They loved it and created the cutest houses!
Dana S. –
My students loved this! This kept the students engaged right before the holiday break!
Ariel G. –
Love it
Brielle Caldera (verified owner) –
This was the most fun activity for my students to complete on the last half day of school before Winter Break! Our district went full Red the week before break, so I really wanted something fun and creative for the kids to do from home on the last day since we would not get to do our usual holiday craft.. This was amazing and my kiddos absolutely loved it!
Diane’s Teacher Shop (Teacher-Author) –
Oh my gosh – this was so much fun!!! Students had a wonderful time with this. Thank you!
Mary Anderson –
Great resource!
Sandy B. –
I used this for my remote Winter Party. The students loved getting to be creative. The houses turned out super cute!
Elizabeth L. –
good resource
Iced Coffee Fueled Classroom (Teacher-Author) –
This was a fun way to keep students engaged during the holidays. We used this while we were learning virtually as an early finisher activity. Very fun, the kids loved it!
Sarah F. –
My class loved this resource! I had them build their gingerbread houses and write about it the day before leaving for the holiday break. They were engaged the whole time and I was amazed at the descriptive language they used to write about their gingerbread house. Thank you!
Shabnam Yaqubie –
This was a really cute product to use during the holidays to engage my students. Could be appropriate for a variety of ages. Interest is definitely there!
Lauren K. –
My students loved this activity. I used it just before winter break & it was a hit! As a matter of fact, this was one of the most enjoyed class activities that the students recalled at the end of the school year. I can’t wait to use it again next year!
Maribel D. –
So much fun!
Elizabeth J. –
I loved this activity and so did my students! It easy engaging, fun and easy for older students to use!
ALD Creations (Teacher-Author) –
This was a great resource to add to our station rotations! My students enjoyed it!
Karen F. –
We had a digital gingerbread house building contest using this resource. My class loved it!
lauren mckeown –
They LOVED it. Students made more than one and were so excited to show it off to the class. Was a great remote learning project and right before the holiday to keep them engaged
Beeing Artsy (Teacher-Author) –
Thank You! This was a great holiday activity for my students who were virtual, they became more familiar with layering and organizing on google slides.
ASHLEY M. –
This was a fun and engaging activity. The kiddos couldnÕt wait to share their creations with each other virtually.
Kathryn R. –
The kids had so much fun with this!
ALWAYS AHEAD (Teacher-Author) –
Thanks
Colleen Carroll –
My students loved this and it was very easy for them to use while distance learning! Thank you!
Maggie K. –
I used this activity for an after school program and the students absolutely loved it! They were highly engaged and kept asking for more time to perfect their houses. They loved it so much that I purchased another similar activity. It worked perfectly for distance learning.
Natalie I. –
Great Resource! Thank you!
Leslie C. –
This was a great addition to our virtual holiday party during Distance Learning.
Katie H. –
Not being able to have real holiday parties, this was a fun way to engage my students at the holidays. We were able to “make” our gingerbread and share with the class virtually! Thanks for making learning fun!
Teryl S. –
We make gingerbread houses together each year, so this was a way to still share an experience (though different) through remote learning. The students enjoyed using these slides.
Kara Will –
Fun experience during holidays over distance learning. Inspired some kids to create real gingerbread houses with their families!
Catherine S. –
Thank you for providing such a helpful resource.
Jennifer P. –
A fun activity. It took some patience from my students to be able to manipulate all of the items on an iPad. It ended up working well after some time though.
A Unique Little Teacher (Teacher-Author) –
This is an amazing resource! Every image in this product looks beautiful and the possibilities of ways to use this with students are endless. I used this with students in grades K-8 in various ways and they all loved it! Thank you so much!
Brandi E. –
Easy to use and fun.
Megan Shea –
This was great, thank you!
Miss D and Me (Teacher-Author) –
Very fun!
Courtney S. –
We have been fully online since the beginning of this year, so I am constantly looking for ways to keep my students engaged, especially during the holidays. I used this resource the day before we went on Winter break as a fun alternative to “real” Gingerbread houses I had completed with my students in the past. They really enjoyed it and it helped us all get in the holiday spirit!
Schooling Supplements (Teacher-Author) –
This was so much fun!
Fanatics in Fourth (Teacher-Author) –
This was the most fun activity for my students to complete on the last half day of school before Winter Break! Our district went full Red the week before break, so I really wanted something fun and creative for the kids to do from home on the last day since we would not get to do our usual holiday craft.. This was amazing and my kiddos absolutely loved it!
Jennifer Miley –
My class loved this!!! It was a great opportunity for them to be creative!!
Irma H. –
My students enjoyed this!
Kari P. –
This was such a fun activity with many different options for personalization!
Jenah M. –
Excellent resource. Thank you!
Hope Corizzo –
I used this as extension work/digital skills development over winter break. I left it in the google classroom for anyone who wanted to work on it over break – to keep them from being bored. The kids LOVE these. They promote practicing the CTL +V, CTL + C, and resizing skills. Great resource, very professional as well as fun!
Emily Kohl –
This was so great! A nice way to add in some easy digital art.
Apples for Primary (Teacher-Author) –
Great resource
Elena V. –
My Students loved this!!
Lisa R. –
If I could give this more stars, I would! My students and I LOVED this! They had such a blast creating their gingerbread home. We turned it into a virtual class project and made a digital “book” of everyone’s creations – plus a small write up for each one. Thank you so much! I will be buying more!
Alexandria B. –
fun activity before break
MrsTteachres3 (Teacher-Author) –
the kids loved it!!!
laura M. –
I used this the class before Christmas break. My classes loved it they thought it was so much fun. When everyone was finished they were able to share their houses. Great resource
The Primary Pink Chef (Teacher-Author) –
I am extremely happy with this resource, and would highly recommend.
Kelly P. –
I love this resource!
Ms Smith Is Finding Her Way (Teacher-Author) –
My students had SO MUCH FUN making these houses. I had just returned from being sick and did not want to stand and talk in front of a class all day. This was perfect!
Michelle V. –
I used this resource to bring my family closer together. We always are together on Christmas and we always make gingerbread houses. This is how we did that this year. I thank you so much for such a wonderful product. It really made our Christmas just a little less strange, and a lot more merry.
Buyer –
My students enjoyed building this digital gingerbread house! They had so much fun with the various decorating / personalizing options. Thank you for this awesome digital resource!
anthe P. –
Nice activity to use on the last day before winter break!
Diane Burke –
My students loved this activity
Tiffany B. –
My class loved doing this. A great alternative to actually building one.
Lori Smith –
This was a fun activity for my students! They loved it! Thanks!
Linda Garcia –
Students had a great time creating their gingerbread house.
The Scattered SLP (Teacher-Author) –
I usually read “The Gingerbread Baby” and “Gingerbread Friends” by Jan Brett in December and we try different kinds of cookies and color gingerbread houses (and work on directions, WH-questions, story retell, adjectives, verbs, recalling details from text, you name it!). Since I can’t do that from home, this was a LIFE SAVER as well as SO MUCH FUN! (Emphasis because I can’t stop smiling) I’ve used this now with 2nd-8th graders and either they manipulate the pieces OR they tell me what to move and where to put it. They’ve had SO much fun, I’ve enjoyed it, and I’ve heard positives from parents. <3 I paired it with a youtube reading of "Gingerbread Baby" and posted it as a material in Google Classroom. My kids have enjoyed it SO much that I'm getting the Winter themed slide decks, as well. I hope you continue these activities in these formats. While I love Boom decks, being able to support fluency in using Slides is a major help for their using it for school projects. Plus, I can see what they are clicking and what slide they are on as we are Zooming, which is wonderful. Overall? It's definitely my favorite project I've done all month and I only wish I had more time in December (when have I EVER said that???) to do the Gingerbread Men or Ugly Sweaters that I also have (I got the bundle. It's amazing). Seriously. So much fun!!! Thank you. You've made December less daunting and filled with many more smiles!!
Ashleigh A. –
This was a great resource to use with my virtual kiddos! During out geometry unit we complete around Christmas, we always build gingerbread houses. Unfortunately, this year left us online. This was a great comparison for the real life thing! Their faces lit up when I showed this to them! Thank you so much!
Vivian K. –
Wonderful resource to encourage creativity, promote writing, and improve computer skills. My students loved it! I also purchased the Turkey in Disguise and Build a Snowman projects.
Lisa D. –
The kids LOVED this. So many options to choose from. Thank you!
jennifer T. –
My students loved this!! Thank you!
Tamara A. –
Great art assignment for distance learning. Thanks.
Managing the Mess –
Fun, colorful resource. Motivating to students and excellent for distance learning.
Tery C. –
I used this as na extra free time activity and my students LOVED it! Thank you 🙂