Gingerbread House Template Printable, Gingerbread Barn with Gambrel Roof, Christmas Baking Project

Printable gingerbread house template for one classic barn with a two-slope gambrel roof, a big door, two hayloft windows and six stall windows.
Actual-size pieces for 1/4-inch dough, with step-by-step pictures, dough and icing recipes and a shopping list counted for this one barn. An intermediate build.
Instant download: nothing is shipped. You bake the gingerbread yourself: you download PDF templates and a building guide. If anything doesn't work for you, message us and we'll fix it.

AT A GLANCE
• Level: intermediate, 8 pieces to cut
• Time: plan on 4 days: make the dough, bake, build, decorate
• Finished size: about 6 3/4 x 5 3/4 x 5 1/4 in (long x deep x tall), on a 12 x 10 inch board
• You need: 1 batch of dough and 2 batches of royal icing; the shopping list in the pack has every amount
• Print sizes: US Letter and A4; print at 100% (Actual size) and check the 1-inch square

WHAT YOU GET (2 files)
• US Letter PDF and A4 PDF: 16 pages each
Inside:
• 3 template pages, printed at actual size, with a 1-inch check square on each
• A decorated picture, a view of where every piece goes, and a piece list with sizes
• 4 step-by-step pictures
• A construction gingerbread recipe with a roll, cut and bake guide
• Royal icing made with meringue powder, and how long to let it set
• A 4-day plan and a shopping list counted for this barn
• Decorating ideas (red icing walls, white X braces on the door, hay in the loft), troubleshooting and safety
• A color-and-build paper barn for young builders

WHY IT FITS
Every piece comes from a 3D model of the finished barn, drawn with the real thickness of 1/4-inch dough. The gambrel roof comes in two steep lower panels and two shallow upper panels, each cut to meet at the bend, and every window keeps at least 3/4 inch of dough around it.

GOOD TO KNOW
No gingerbread or candy is included. The dough is egg-free, but the royal icing contains egg (meringue powder), and the guide carries a raw-dough warning. The barn in the first photo is a digital rendering made from the same 3D model as the templates.
This is the barn from our Gingerbread Homestead Village, on its own. The Village has all four buildings (the barn, a farmhouse, a candy-glass greenhouse and a chicken coop), with pines, a picket fence and a farmyard map, in one download.

GOES WELL WITH
• Gingerbread Homestead Village: all four buildings in one download
• Gingerbread Farmhouse: the farmhouse with a chimney from the same village
• Paper Snowflake Templates: 30 snowflakes for the windows behind the barn

QUESTIONS
Q: Is this a physical item? No. It is a digital download; you print it yourself.
Q: Is it hard? It is an intermediate build: the four roof panels go on one at a time, propped, as the steps show.
Q: I already have the Village. Do I need this? No. The Village has this same barn, with the same templates and steps.

LICENSE
Print as many copies as you need for one household, or for one classroom or co-op of up to 30 children. Teachers may also post the pages to a private, password-protected class page (such as a learning platform) for their own students. Please don't share the files publicly, post them on an open website, or resell them. Please don't sell houses made from the templates as your own design.
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