A gingerbread man is a holiday favorite and still beginner-friendly: a simple brown silhouette with arms and legs, finished with a few white icing beads and red buttons. Keep the face and trim minimal so it stays crisp at a small size. Fun as an ornament, a magnet, or a whole gingerbread family.
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Perler colors & exact bead counts
This page shows the full chart and exact color counts — 176 beads on a 19×22 grid. Read the chart beside your pegboard. Colors are matched to the real Perler color list in our community palette dataset.
| Color | Perler name | Code | Beads |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gingerbread | 80-15250 | 154 | |
| White | 80-19001 | 17 | |
| Red | 80-19005 | 5 | |
| Total | 176 |
What you need for this bead pattern
- 176 midi (5 mm) fuse beads in the 3 colors listed above. Perler beads are sold as midi beads.
- A square pegboard of at least 19×22 pegs; a large square board has 29×29 pegs.
- Ironing paper and a household iron. An adult should do the fusing.
How to build the gingerbread man bead pattern
- Use a square pegboard with space for 19×22 beads and place the colors above by counting the grid. Leave empty cells empty; the decorative margin is not part of the design.
- Check the color changes and empty spaces against the full chart before fusing.
- Fuse with ironing paper and an iron, as in our step-by-step Perler ironing guide, and let it cool flat under a book.
Print or save this bead chart
This page is a reading chart: keep it open beside your pegboard, or use your browser’s print function. The chart image is not printed at bead size, so count the grid rather than laying beads on paper. To keep a copy, open the full chart image and save or print it from there. To change colors, size or add a name, open the maker, where a new design can be exported as a PDF (A4 or Letter), PNG, CSV or JSON.
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