Gingerbread Man Box Template — Free Shaped Cookie Box, Any Size

The gingerbread man box template, flat and folded

Gingerbread man box template — free printable dieline with cut and fold lines, any size — The printable dieline at its standard size. Type your own size above for yours.

Gingerbread man box folded up from the template — the finished box — The finished gingerbread man box, made from it.

What this template is for

A gingerbread man shaped box with a matching lid: round head, arms out and legs apart. Christmas cookies and sweets, bake sales, kids' parties and advent gifts.

Also called gingerbread man box · gingerbread box · christmas cookie box · gingerbread favour box — all the same shape, and this is it.

Christmas cookies and biscuits
Bake sales and school fairs
Kids’ Christmas party favours
Advent and stocking gifts

How to use this template

All four downloads are the same gingerbread man box at the same size — only the format changes.

Which file goes where: PDF, PNG, SVG or DXF

PDF printing at home: Print at 100 per cent, or hand it to a print shop as "actual size, no scaling".
PNG 300 dpi Canva, Photoshop, Procreate: Upload, lock it in place and design your gingerbread man box on top. Free plan and phone included. Full Canva walkthrough →
SVG Cricut, Illustrator, Inkscape, Affinity: Vector, with cuts, folds and labels on separate layers. Cricut and Silhouette walkthrough →
DXF Silhouette, laser and vinyl cutters: Two layers, CUT and FOLD — and the one free Silhouette Studio Basic will open.

Getting it printed properly → · Putting your own design on it →

Printing it

Type your size above, then download the PDF.
Print at 100% — never “fit to page”, or every measurement comes out wrong.
Too big for the paper? Pick your paper size and leave Fit the pieces to the page ticked: each piece gets its own place on a sheet and the PDF comes out with every page in it, nothing cut in half and nothing to tape.

How to put it together

These pictures are the gingerbread man box itself, not a generic diagram — change the measurements above and the template changes, but the steps never do. The names in capitals are the labels printed on the template.

Cut the solid lines
Every solid line is a cut. Do the inside shapes first, while the sheet is still whole and easy to hold.
Score every dashed line
Dashed lines are folds. Score each one first — an empty ballpoint against a ruler — or the card cracks along the outside of the bend.
Step by step
1. Cut out the BASE, the BOX WALL, and the LID and LID WALL if you set a lid.
2. Crease the wall at the four corners of the two feet.
3. Glue the wall strip round the BASE, curving it round the head and hands and in round the neck, the armpits and between the legs.
4. Fold the tabs in, set the base on them and glue.
5. Make the lid the same way.

Glue: a glue stick for paper, white PVA on card — hold each seam thirty seconds, and let it dry before you use it.

Questions about the gingerbread man box

Where does the wall fold?

Only at the four corners of the two feet. Everywhere else it curves: round the head and hands, and in round the neck, the armpits and the gap between the legs, which are all rounded at least 4 mm so the wall can bend.

What size is the default box?

A gingerbread man 100 mm from hand to hand and 126 mm tall, 30 mm deep with a 12 mm lid. It prints on two A4 or US Letter sheets.

Will a cookie fit?

Bake with a cutter a little smaller than the box: the inside of the box is the size typed in, and the lid is one board and 0.6 mm bigger all round. A 90 mm cookie cutter suits the default box.