Christmas is on Friday, December 25
Everyone on your list can have anything delivered tomorrow, so give them what no shop has: an ornament with their name that comes out of the box again every December, or a candle you poured.
Make it yourself
Each idea opens the tool that makes it, with a ready design to start from where there is one.
For every person at Christmas dinner: their name on a bauble, a star or a gingerbread man, with a ribbon loop.
Open the Christmas ornament toolFor whoever cooks this year: six layered tiers, from a silicone mold you pour once.
Open the Silicone mold maker tool Ready-made: Christmas tree candle moldFor baking day: six cutters, each with a stamp for the details.
Open the Cookie cutter tool Ready-made: Christmas cookie cutter set with stampsFor the tree, or tied to every present as a tag: a star, a tree, a bauble and a heart.
Open the Tray mold tool Ready-made: Concrete Christmas ornament mold, 4 shapesFor a whole tree of them: each half prints flat in about 70 minutes and is pressed round with a heat gun.
Open the Mesh former tool Ready-made: Mesh Christmas ornamentFor the grandparents: the picture appears when it stands in front of a light.
Open the Photo lithophane toolFor the people next door: drop one in a mug, pour hot milk over it, and it bursts open.
Open the Tray mold tool Ready-made: Hot chocolate bomb mold, 2.5 inchFor your Christmas post: six seals, from a tree to a candy cane, on one handle.
Open the Custom stamps tool Ready-made: Christmas wax seal set56 designs · print times from 35 min
Four cutters that build a gingerbread house: two gables, a side wall and a roof panel, with the door and windows cut in the same press.
Six Christmas village cookie cutters with stamps: cottage, church, townhouse, fir tree, street lamp and wreath.
Sealing wax
Six Christmas wax seal stamps, from a tree to a candy cane: one screw-on handle and a 28 mm plate for each.
Clay
Six-armed snowflakes of three sizes for Christmas ornaments and winter pottery. Branched arms and a flurry of small flakes.
Clay
Sprigs of spiky holly with clusters of berries for Christmas clay and pottery. Pairs of leaves, three berries each.
Concrete
Four snowflake coasters cast in concrete straight into a printed tray. A Christmas set, no silicone.
A printed cap that marks SNOWMAN on a golf ball. Golf slang for an 8 on one hole, and an all too familiar shape on the card.
Concrete
Four concrete Christmas ornaments, a star, a tree, a bauble and a heart, each with a hanging hole, cast in one printed tray.
Concrete
A pair of chunky concrete Christmas star tealight holders, 95 mm across, cast straight in one printed tray.
A Christmas stocking cutter with a matching stamp that presses in the cuff, heel, toe and a star.
A Christmas bell on its rim with a clapper, and a stamp that presses in two bands and a star.
Mini figure of a guy with a black beard in a Santa hat, made from one photo with the head generator. Painted 3MF.
A reindeer head with chunky antlers, and a stamp that presses in the eyes, ears and a big round nose.
A puffy honeycomb star for the tree: two halves that pin together, with a hanging hole in the top point.
Bust of a guy with a black beard in a Santa hat, made from one photo with the head generator. Painted 3MF.
A round Christmas bauble with its cap, and a stamp that presses in two bands, a zigzag and dots.
Candle wax
A 72 mm Christmas bauble candle with twelve rounded bands and a beaded ornament cap. A rigid two-part print.
Head can holder of a guy with a black beard in a Santa hat, made from one photo with the head generator. Painted 3MF.
Two holly leaves and three berries, with a stamp that presses in the leaf veins and the berries.
Sealing wax
A six-armed snowflake on a 28 mm wax seal stamp, made for Christmas cards and winter wedding invitations.
Candle wax
An 80 mm Christmas bell candle with a flared lip, decorative rings and a crown knob. A rigid two-part print.
An ugly Christmas sweater cutter with a stamp for the ribbing, a zigzag band and a little tree.
Head planter of a guy with a black beard in a Santa hat, made from one photo with the head generator. Painted 3MF.
A floppy Santa hat with a fur brim and a pompom, and a stamp that presses in the brim and the fur.
Head keychain of a guy with a black beard in a Santa hat, made from one photo with the head generator. Painted 3MF.
A wrapped present with a bow on top, and a stamp that presses in the lid, the ribbon and the bow.
A round little penguin with flippers and feet, and a stamp that presses in its face, belly, eyes and beak.
A Christmas light bulb on its screw cap, with a stamp that presses in the thread and a shine line.
Merry Christmas in a bold script on a round cookie: a round cutter and the stamp that presses the words in.
Ho Ho Ho stacked three lines high in a script: a round cutter and a stamp that presses it into the cookie.
Paper
MERRY CHRISTMAS round a snowflake: emboss your Christmas cards, tags and envelopes.
Let it snow in a round, playful script: a round cutter and the stamp that presses the words into the cookie.
Six Christmas cookie cutters, each with its own stamp: stocking, bell, reindeer, ornament, sweater and Santa hat.
Merry Christmas, Ho Ho Ho and Let it snow: three round cookie stamps, each with its round cutter.
Candle wax
Four Christmas wax melt snap bars per pour: tree, star, bauble, snowflake, gift and candy cane on every bar.
Candle wax
Eight Christmas tree wax melts with garlands and baubles, poured straight into a printed tray. No silicone.
Candle wax
Six Christmas bauble wax melts with a zigzag band, a crown cap and a loop, poured straight into a printed tray.
Chocolate
Three Christmas tree cakesicles per batch, stick in the trunk. A food-safe silicone mold for the holidays.
Candle wax
A snowman candle, 112 mm tall: three snowballs, a top hat, a scarf, coal eyes and buttons, and a carrot nose. A rigid two-part print.
Clay
Four Christmas earring cutters for polymer clay: a tree, a bauble, a candy cane and a star stud.
Candle wax
A gingerbread man candle, 92 mm tall: a rounded cookie with raised icing eyes, smile, buttons and zigzag cuffs. A rigid two-part print.
Clay
A three-piece plaster mold for slip casting a ribbed 72 mm Christmas bauble with its hanging neck.
A gingerbread house front with an overhanging roof and a chimney. The whole Christmas village, one cookie at a time.
A chunky five-point star with softened tips that cut clean and bake without burning.
A 100 mm gingerbread man with sturdy arms and legs that do not snap off the tray.
Soap
Four snowflake soaps with ridged arms and a raised centre, poured straight into a printed tray.
A three-tier Christmas tree with a trunk, sized to decorate with sprinkles and garlands.
A honeycomb bauble in two halves that click together, with a hole in the cap for the string.
Candle wax
Six gingerbread man wax melts per pour, with raised icing, buttons and a smile, from a silicone tray you make yourself.
A six-arm snowflake with branch tips, chunky enough to cut in one press and bake evenly.
A cosy winter mitten with a big cuff, made for stripes, dots and names in icing.
Three snowballs and a top hat: a snowman cookie that is easy to decorate for kids.
A tall candy cane with a round hook, ready for red and white stripes.
Candle wax
A tiered Christmas tree candle, 105 mm tall: four stacked tiers on a round trunk, with a star on top. A rigid two-part print.
Candle wax
A knitted mitten candle, 84 mm tall: a mitten with a thumb, a ribbed cuff and raised V-stitches on both faces. A rigid two-part print.
Candle wax
An 84 mm Christmas tree candle with six layered tiers, as a silicone mold from a printed shell.
Timing
Christmas is on Friday, December 25, 2026. Start by Friday, December 11 and every step below fits, with a spare evening for a second pour.
Short on time? These are printed and done the same day: Name ornaments for everyone at the table, Christmas cookies with matching stamps, Mesh baubles for the tree.
From under an hour for a cookie cutter to overnight for a palm-sized mold.
Only if the design is a silicone mold kit. Pour it once and let it cure: 4 to 24 hours.
Wax cools right through in 4 to 6 hours. Plaster opens in 30 to 60 minutes and dries in a day or two. Concrete wants at least 24 hours in the mold.
Paint, seal, scent or pack it, and keep one spare evening for a second pour.
Questions
In the US, the UK, Canada, France and Spain, Christmas 2026 is on Friday, December 25. Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Mexico and Brazil (Christmas Eve, when the presents are opened): Thursday, December 24.
Two weeks before you need them, more if you are making one for everyone on your list. Printing takes from under an hour for a cutter to overnight for a palm-sized mold, silicone cures in 4 to 24 hours, wax cools in 4 to 6 and concrete wants at least a day in the mold. If you post your gifts, count the shipping days too.
Trays and sets. A tray mold casts several pieces per pour, so one evening of wax melts, chocolates or concrete ornaments covers a whole office. Name ornaments and keychains are quick too: type each name and print them in one batch.
Making gifts is personal use and free. Selling the pieces you cast from a design on this page needs a commercial licence (Pro or Founder), and passing on the file itself is not permitted on any plan. The licences page has the full terms.
Two ways. A lithophane turns a photo into a thin printed panel that shows the picture when light shines through it. The photo candle wraps a photo round a candle as a relief that glows when the candle is lit.
