Felt Gingerbread Men Ornaments

Big Brother’s Kinder­garten class has been read­ing var­i­ous Gin­ger­bread Man sto­ries this month and they’re work­ing on gin­ger­bread houses to end the week. So, to thank his teach­ers & brighten their day just a bit on what had to be a dif­fi­cult day, we made all the kinder­garten teach­ers these adorable felt gin­ger­bread men orna­ments (or in this case, gin­ger­bread girls!)!

I found a great kit at Joann’s full of the gin­ger­bread peo­ple cut-outs & stick­ers to dec­o­rate. Given his love of the Rudolph orna­ments, I knew Big Brother would love mak­ing them! He’s had so much fun talk­ing about all their gin­ger­bread sto­ries at school. He decided on mak­ing the gin­ger­bread girls (as all of the teach­ers are women) and we’ll be mak­ing some of the gin­ger­bread “boys” for our tree! The kit itself was really easy. He got to decide and do just about every­thing.  I just needed to hot glue a cou­ple of pieces. Then, to make them orna­ments, I cut some candy cane che­nille stems in half. I looped them on the back and stuck down with hot glue. If you can’t find a rea­son­ably priced kit, you could def­i­nitely make these totally “from scratch”. You’d just need a gin­ger­bread man tem­plate to cut out the felt with. Then, you could dec­o­rate with stick­ers, other felt pieces, but­ton, rib­bon, etc.

Because these were gifts for the teach­ers, I had him write a note on the paper. We kept it short & sweet…“thank you for being a good teacher”. I then made pho­to­copies. Then, we punched a hole in the notes & tied them on with a rib­bon. I walked him into school & he was so excited, proudly car­ry­ing in this cre­ations! His teacher loved it. And, that made my heart happy! Now, we can’t wait to make the ones for our fam­ily Christ­mas tree!!