Christmas Resin Ideas

How to Choose a Christmas Resin Project

Before you pick a mould and open a bottle, it helps to match the project to the time and materials you actually have.

Time: Pendants and coasters take around an hour of active work and then approximately 24 hours of initial curing before they may be ready to demould. Allow at least 72 hours before regular use, gifting, or packaging. Trays need a bit more mixing and finishing. Layered winter scenes are multi-session projects that span several days, since each layer needs time to set before the next goes in.

Mould depth: Standard flat moulds for coasters, earrings and pendants work well with Craft Resin Arts & Crafts when the pour depth does not exceed 6 mm (¼ inch) per layer. Check the depth of your mould before pouring, as deeper pieces need to be built up in layers or made with a resin suitable for deeper casting. Our guide to pouring resin in layers covers how to do that safely.

Inclusions: Glitter and mica are the easiest to work with and forgive a lot of beginner errors. Dried flowers, miniature figures and LED lights each need a bit more planning around placement and timing.

Skill level: If this is your first resin project, a small flat pour into a coaster or pendant mould is the right starting point. Get the measuring, mixing and bubble removal right on something simple before moving to anything with depth or multiple layers.

Easy Resin Christmas Decorations

The simplest place to start with festive resin is ornament pendants: pour Craft Resin Arts & Crafts into silicone moulds, add glitter or mica, cure, and hang. Bauble rounds, stars, tree silhouettes and snowflake shapes all work well. For a full step-by-step covering mould selection, mixing, finishing and hanging, see our guide to how to make resin ornaments.

@alexthealchemyst made a beautiful freestanding resin reindeer in clear resin that shows exactly what a clean, simple cast can achieve when the mould detail is good. The transparency gives it a glass-like quality that works especially well as a display piece. It also raises something worth remembering: freestanding decorations like this make a natural container for something meaningful cast inside, whether ashes, dried flowers or a small memento.

@blossomresins made these resin reindeer with a space cast into the nose area for a chocolate sweet to sit in, which is one of the most charming stocking filler ideas we've come across in resin. They are small, inexpensive to make in batches, easy to personalise with different colours, and the kind of thing people remember and order again.

@cla_resin has been making some of the most ambitious festive resin display pieces going. The lit gingerbread house, where light glows through the resin walls from an LED placed inside, is a standout.

And @cla_resin has also cast a gingerbread house jar that works both as pure decoration and as something functional to fill with sweets.

Christmas Resin Coasters

Festive coasters are one of the strongest Christmas resin sellers and one of the most beginner-friendly projects in the category. Deep red translucent pours, gold flake effects, layered colour patterns or moulds with a festive relief design pressed into the surface all produce results that look far more complex than they are.

@thehandmaderesinartco made these reindeer coasters that capture the appeal of festive resin tableware well: functional, beautiful, and personal in a way that a bought set from a shop is not. A set of these placed on the coffee table when family come around adds something to the room that standard coasters simply don't.

For more festive coaster designs and a full step-by-step guide to making them, including technique, finish and display, visit our Christmas resin coasters and tableware guide.

Christmas Resin Earrings and Jewellery

Jewellery is one of the most efficient categories in festive resin making. The pieces use very little resin, the moulds are inexpensive, and a single mixing session can produce enough pairs to cover a market stall. They can also be a practical option for crafters selling at Christmas markets, as several pairs can be made from a relatively small amount of resin.

The main technique note for earring moulds is that the cavities are small and fill faster than expected. Pour slowly, stop before the cavity looks full, and let the resin self-level to the edges rather than trying to force it. Overfilling a small mould is much harder to fix cleanly than underfilling.

Colour is everything in small pieces. A dusting of warm gold mica into a gingerbread man shape, deep red glitter through a star, or a pearl shimmer in a bauble reads immediately as festive. Fine glitters and mica powders work better in earring-scale moulds than chunky glitters, which can overwhelm the detail. The hardware you attach once the piece is cured, ear hooks, jump rings, a chain, matters a lot to the finished feel, so it's worth buying quality fittings if you're selling.

@noodlegirlcreations makes resin gingerbread earrings that are a perfect example of how well a seasonal shape translates at this scale. Chunky, warm, and genuinely festive without being overbearing.

Christmas Resin Trays

A resin tray is one of the most versatile festive makes you can add to your range, because it doesn't stop being useful after the 25th. Colour it for winter rather than specifically for Christmas and it works from November through January. Make it in a more neutral palette and it earns a place on a sideboard or coffee table year-round.

@standtogetheruk , Chrissy from the Craft Resin educator team, made a Santa snack tray that's a seasonal classic. There's a free YouTube tutorial covering the full process, which is great if you'd like to follow along and make one to give as a gift or sell in the festive season.

@magically_resin created a winter tray with a freestanding resin reindeer figure placed on top, styled as a centrepiece display piece for the Christmas table. The tray itself is a regular year-round piece; the reindeer is what comes out seasonally. It's a good model for making something that earns its place in a home twelve months of the year.

@resin.bar.studio makes beautiful winter-themed trays in a cooler, more restrained palette that sits as comfortably in a January living room as it does in December. If you're selling trays at a Christmas market, having a few options in a winter-rather-than-Christmas colour story gives buyers confidence they won't feel the need to put it away in the new year.

Winter Scenes and Snowflakes

A winter scene in resin is a genuinely different type of project from anything flat. You're building depth, arranging materials across multiple layers, and working with the gel-state window between each pour to control where things sit in the final piece.

@standtogetheruk has made some striking winter landscape pieces that show the range of what a scene-style resin project can look like when the layering and composition come together.

One practical option worth knowing: some moulds on the market are designed to let you build a winter scene in separate cast sections rather than in one large continuous pour. You cast each element of the scene individually, then assemble and join them with a final layer of resin. This approach uses less resin overall, gives you more control over placing figures and inclusions, and tends to be more forgiving if something doesn't go perfectly in one section.

For solid single-pour scenes, building up the depth in layers is the technique: pour the first layer, let it reach a gel state, then add the next layer with any inclusions positioned in between. The visual effect builds naturally as you go. Miniature pine cones, dried holly or small pieces of bark for a natural-materials look; or miniature figures, a tiny sleigh, a ceramic gingerbread house or a reindeer for a more illustrative scene. Either approach produces results that have a depth that flat pours can't match.

@resin_tale and @kingshillluxuryresin are both worth following for winter scene and landscape inspiration, particularly if you're thinking about how to style and photograph this kind of layered work.

For snowflake pendants and ornament ideas specifically, the snowflake ideas section in our Christmas ornament guide covers mould options and colour approaches in detail.

Christmas Resin Games and Gifts

Resin isn't only for decorative pieces. It's also a surprisingly good material for bespoke gifts and games that people will actually use.

@aca.art_ made a resin domino set that's exactly the kind of Christmas gift that doesn't end up forgotten in a drawer: practical, beautiful, and custom in a way that no two sets will ever look exactly alike. A domino set in the recipient's favourite colours, or in a festive palette, makes a good gift for adults and an engaging family activity over the holiday period.

@standtogetheruk also makes resin wine butlers in festive colorways that are a useful category to keep in mind. A wine butler in deep red and gold reads as seasonal while being functional enough to use all year. Pieces like this, which serve a real purpose beyond the festive period, often sell better than purely decorative items because buyers can justify the spend more easily.

For personalised gifts, @littleresintreats is a great example of how much impact personalisation has: adding a name, date or colour choice to a piece turns it into something a customer can't find anywhere else. Personalised resin pieces also tend to generate repeat orders, because people who loved their first piece come back when they want something made for someone else.

If you're thinking about giving a Craft Resin kit as a gift to a maker in your life, see our guide to gifting Craft Resin this Christmas.

Christmas Resin Ideas to Sell

The festive season is the strongest sales period of the year for most resin makers. A few things are worth keeping in mind when building your Christmas range.

Personalisation is your biggest advantage. Being able to match a customer's tree colour scheme or add a name, year or short message to a piece is something that large retailers simply cannot do. Put that option front and centre in your listings and posts, not buried in a product description.

Invest in pieces with a long season. Resin Christmas decorations in winter colours rather than strictly December colours, such as deer, snowflakes and geometric shapes, can be displayed and sold from early November through January. Pieces in very specific Christmas palettes have a narrower window. Trays, wine butlers and coasters in gold, navy, white and deep jewel tones earn more use and are easier to price at a level that reflects the work.

Be upfront about thicker pieces. Layered winter scenes and 3D display pieces take significantly longer to produce and cure than a standard flat pour. Customers who know this before they order are happy to wait; those who didn't expect it are not. Set clear dispatch timelines in your listings for anything that involves multiple pours.

Consider in-person events. Our guide to selling at Christmas markets covers what to prepare, how to display your work and how to handle the pace of a busy market. And if the seasonal volume feels overwhelming before it starts, surviving the festive season as a resin business owner is a practical read.

For the business side: pricing your resin work and how to package resin creations.

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