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Flat name ornaments, round baubles in two halves and a gingerbread house kit, ready to print before Christmas.
Everything here is a finished decoration, not a mold: you print it and hang it on the tree or set it on a shelf. The flat ornaments print in one piece in about half an hour, face up with no supports, and the letters and trim stand a millimetre proud so one filament change gives them a second colour. The round baubles print as two halves on their flat faces, line up on short pins cut from filament and take a standard metal ornament cap, like a glass one.
The houses are the bigger project: a gingerbread house that comes as ten flat panels with the icing printed on, glued together in an afternoon, and a one-piece cottage that glows over an LED tealight. Never put a real candle in a printed house; PLA softens long before a flame is done with it.
Every design was made with one of our free Christmas generators, so if you want a different name, word, shape or colour, open the tool from the design page, change it and download your own in about a minute.
Want a round one, or a house? Design a bauble in two halves →
Questions
Silk PLA for anything round, since it catches the tree lights like glass, and a matte PLA for the flat name ornaments, where the letters read better without the shine. Red, gold, white and navy all read as Christmas from across the room.
The flat ornaments have a loop at the top for a ribbon, twine or a wire ornament hook. The round baubles have a neck that takes a standard metal ornament cap, the same as a glass bauble, so any ornament hook fits.
Yes, far better than glass. PLA keeps its shape and colour in a box in the loft for years; just keep it out of a hot car or a sunny window in summer, where PLA can soften.