With the holiday season fast approaching, these Christmas cookie templates are such a great way to bring a little extra creativity into your home or classroom. Kids love anything to do with sugar cookies and gingerbread cookies, and this printable template lets them enjoy all the fun of designing their favourite cookie shapes again and again.
It is simple, open ended, easy to set up and so adaptable for different ages. Whether your child wants to colour, draw, plan cookie designs for real baking day, or dive into imaginative pretend play, these free templates are an easy way to enjoy the Christmas spirit without needing to mix any sugar cookie dough at all.
6 Creative Ways to Use These Christmas Cookie Templates
One of my favourite things about these pages is that you can use them for so many different activities.
Christmas Cookies Drawing Prompt Printable
They work beautifully as a drawing prompt, giving kids a place to sketch out ideas before decorating their actual holiday cookies with icing. The gingerbread man and cookie outlines and other shapes also make lovely colouring pages if your child prefers to keep things simple.
Christmas Cookies Playdough Mat Printable
For sensory fun, you can turn the mats into a playdough invitation where the printable christmas cookies get decorated with playdough icing, sprinkles and little rolled details. It is such a great way for younger children to practise fine motor skills while creating something cute.
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Christmas Cookies Craft Template Printable
If your kids love crafts, they can decorate the templates with stickers, gems, or cut paper shapes to make their own open ended cookie art.
Christmas Cookies Dramatic Play Printable
Some children enjoy pretending to run a bakery or café, so you can laminate the sheets, cut out the cookies and use them for pretend play. Suddenly you have a bakery full of holiday cookies ready to serve with a glass of milk.
Christmas Cookies Matching and Sorting Printable
If you want to add a bit of learning into the fun, you can print two sets and turn them into a simple shape matching game or use the idea sheet as a sorting activity.
Christmas Cookies Planning Template Printable
These pages are also helpful if you want to sketch ideas for royal icing transfer sheets or plan out what your real christmas sugar cookies will look like on baking day. Everything is easy to reuse because you can always print more copies whenever you need them.
Pages Included in the Christmas Cookie Templates Printable
The main cookie tray page includes a set of basic cookie shapes, perfect for drawing your own christmas sweets designs. You will find shapes like stars, hearts, a gingerbread style figure, a bauble and a Christmas tree so you can plan all your favourite holiday cookies in one place. This page works really well as a colouring mat, a playdough mat or simply as a sketch page for trying out ideas before decorating real cookies.
The alternative tray page keeps the same shapes but offers a slightly different background, so you can choose whichever colour tone suits your activity best. Both trays give that cosy cookie-baking feeling without needing any milk chocolate chips or oatmeal chocolate chip cookies in the oven.
The cookie ideas sheet is full of beautifully decorated examples to inspire your kids. They can look at the decorations, colours, and little details, then choose their favourite cookie to copy or mix elements to create their own designs. This page can also be used for matching, sorting or as a visual prompt to spark new ideas – how will you decorate your christmas sugar cookie? And which shape is your favorite cookie?
Download the Christmas Cookies Template Printable PDF
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These Christmas cookie templates are such a fun way to explore creativity during the holiday season. Kids can colour, plan, invent and imagine without any pressure, making this activity perfect for calm afternoons, classroom use or cosy family time.
You can keep the finished pages safe in an airtight container style folder or simply enjoy them in the moment and print more whenever you like. The best part is that the activity grows with your child because the templates are so open ended and adaptable.
More Christmas Printables
We have lots more hands on Christmas printables that bring simple, creative fun to your holiday plans. You can explore even more designs, prompts and activities that pair beautifully with the Christmas season.
- MagnaTiles Christmas Printable Challenge Cards
- Christmas Pattern Block Mats Free Printable
- Free Printable Christmas Dress Up Dolls
- Free Printable Christmas Alphabet Worksheets
- Christmas Counting Cube Pictures Printable
More Christmas Cookie Fun
If your family loves holiday cookies, we also have plenty of other cookie themed activities and inspiration to spark creativity before you reach for the cookie cutters. Kids can play, imagine and experiment with designs before you bring out the real sugar cookies.
- Santa’s Bake Shop Pretend Play Printables
- Cookie Counting Printable Game
- The Ultimate Collection of 85 Christmas Cookie Recipes
- Free Printable Milk and Cookies for Santa Placemat
- Christmas Cookie Dough Recipes Printable
- Christmas Cookie Exchange Printables
If you enjoy this printable Christmas cookie activity, please share this blog post with friends, teachers or anyone who might love it too. It really helps us reach more families and keeps the creative ideas flowing.
