DIY Gingerbread Man with Dremel

This post is sponsored by Dremel®. All opinions are 100% mine.

Have you started to decorate for Christmas yet? Are you a stickler to the “no Christmas decorations before Thanksgiving” rule? This year I decided to make a few of my decorations, and December can be crazy so I wanted to show you how to make this cute gingerbread man before I snap my fingers and it’s MARCH! 

Supplies needed for this project:

Dremel® Rotary Tool with a flat cutting wheel

High Quality Ply Wood

Jigsaw

Pencil

Poster Board

Stain in the color of your choice

White Caulk

Lint Free Cloth

Small Amount of Water

Step 1: Make your Pattern. Fold your poster board in half and draw a gingerbread man. Cut him out with scissors and unfold the poster board. 

Step 2: Trace it onto the wood. Use a pencil to trace the gingerbread pattern onto the wood carefully. 

My ginger bread man is about 18 inches tall. 

Step 3: Cut your gingerbread man out with a jigsaw. Warning, don’t press to hard or you will break your wood. {I MIGHT or might not be speaking from experience here…RIP first gingerbread man. #goodtimes}

Step 4: Carve snowflakes. Take a Dremel tool with a cutting disk and carefully carve snowflakes in your gingerbread man. It’s SO much fun! Here is a quick video showing just how easy it is. {I used my cordless Dremel Max and it worked like a charm!}

 Make a line at a time with the Dremel and continue until you have as many snowflakes as you prefer.     

 

 

 

 

 

Step 5: Stain your wood with the color of stain of your choice. I used a light coat of Rustoleum Kona on my gingerbread man. I wanted him to look like the color of real gingerbread cookies, and it worked perfectly. 

Step 6: Let the stain dry overnight. 

Step 7: Fill the snowflakes with white caulk.  Use your finger to fill the snowflakes with caulk. Be careful that you don’t buy clear caulk. You want it to stay white. 

Step 8: Immediately after filling the snowflakes with caulk, wet a lint free cloth and wipe off the excess caulk. 

Repeat steps 7 and 8 until all snowflakes are filled. 

Step 9: Add a ribbon scarf. 

Isn’t he so cute! He cost less than $15 to make in supplies. 

Make one! It’s so much fun!

xoxo,

Brooke