Gingerbread house craft for KS1, Year 1, Year 2 and Year 3: a printable 3D paper gingerbread house template that children cut, fold and glue into a house that stands up. A no prep Christmas DT and maths craft, 12 pages, with three decorated houses and a design-your-own house in colour and black and white.

Each house is a single sheet with straight cuts and nine folds, so Year 1 can make it with little help. It is also a proper 3D shapes lesson: pentagons on the front and back, rectangles for the walls and roof, and a pentagonal prism to describe by its faces, edges and vertices.

What’s included (12 pages)

• Three gingerbread house templates (Classic, Snowy, Candy Cottage) in colour
• Black and white colouring versions that photocopy cleanly
• A Design Your Own house for early finishers
• Eight sweets to cut out on every sheet
• A 7-step picture guide to making it
• A Choose Your House page for the whiteboard
• A one-page teacher’s guide and curriculum links
• A4 and US Letter

How to use it

• Year 2 maths: properties of 3D shapes (faces, edges, vertices)
• DT: building a structure that stands up
• Christmas crafts afternoon, the class display or a take-home gift
• Cover lessons in the last week of the autumn term

Curriculum

• Maths Y1: recognise and name common 2-D and 3-D shapes
• Maths Y2: identify and describe the properties of 3-D shapes, including the number of edges, vertices and faces
• DT KS1: build structures, exploring how they can be made stronger, stiffer and more stable
• Art and design KS1: use a range of materials creatively

Suitable for SEN and home education. No religious content. Single classroom licence.