Dinosaur Christmas: How to Theme the Whole House, From the Tree to the Mug in Your Hand

Someone in your house has decided this is a dinosaur Christmas. Maybe it's a five-year-old who wants a T. rex on the tree, maybe it's you. Either way you're now thinking about more than one ornament: the stockings, the paper under the tree, something to wear on Christmas morning, and whether any of it will arrive in time.

This page is the plan. It covers everything we make for a dinosaur Christmas, the one trick that makes a themed house look deliberate rather than random, and a single table of order-by dates, because the pieces ship on very different clocks.

Everything below comes from the live product listings.

The short version

• Pick one print and use it everywhere. Six of our Christmas designs come as a wooden ornament, a mug and a pack of wrapping paper, so the tree, the table and the presents can all match.
• Order the stockings first. They take up to 35 business days door to door. For Christmas Eve, order by November 3. Everything else can wait until December.
• For clothes, there are two Christmas sweatshirts, a Christmas T. rex tee, Santa-hat socks, and a toddler dress.

You can see the whole range in one place in our dinosaur Christmas collection.

The easiest dinosaur Christmas: one print, everywhere

A house full of dinosaur things can look like a toy box exploded. A house where the tree, the coffee mug and the wrapping paper share one print looks like you planned it. We make most of our Christmas designs across several products for exactly this reason.

Prices are the same across each product type: $17.99 an ornament, $19.99–$23.99 a mug (11, 15 or 20 oz), and $24.99 for a pack of three sheets of wrapping paper.

For a full matching set in one design, take Gingerbread Dinosaurs, the navy cookie print of whole gingerbread dinosaurs: the ornament, the mug and the wrapping paper. That comes to about $63 for one ornament, one 11 oz mug and a pack of paper, and it reads as a theme the moment the presents go under the tree.

If you'd rather go pink, the Pink Christmas set has palm trees in it and suits a warm-weather Christmas. T-Rex Winter Forest is the one to pick if you want to wear the theme too.

The tree: dinosaur ornaments

Most of our ornaments are solid Hinoki wood, printed on both sides, with a red ribbon and a magnetic back so they can go on the fridge when the tree comes down. Each of the eight wooden designs comes in six shapes (bell, heart, oval, star, stocking and tree), all $17.99. There's also one ceramic option, Watercolor Dino.

A tree doesn't need to be all dinosaurs to have a dinosaur Christmas. Three or four in the same print, hung at a child's eye level, do more than a dozen mixed ones.

Our dinosaur ornaments guide has every design, the size of each shape, and what the matching pieces look like. The ornaments sit together in the dinosaur Christmas ornaments collection.

The mantel: dinosaur Christmas stockings

We make fifteen dinosaur stocking designs, among them gingerbread T. rexes, snow globes, a holly print, and one with a Christmas nugget theme. They're all the same stocking underneath: one size, 13″ × 19.3″, a full-size stocking that holds a proper haul. They're $34.99 each (one design, Merry Christmas, is listed at $33.55).

Stockings are the piece to order first. The listings quote 2–5 business days to make and 10–30 to ship, which is 12–35 business days door to door. That's much longer than anything else on this page. One more thing to know: there's no name option on the stockings, so if you want names on the cuff you'll need to add them yourself.

The dinosaur Christmas stockings guide walks through all fifteen designs, or you can browse the dinosaur stocking collection directly.

Under the tree: dinosaur wrapping paper

Six dinosaur wrapping paper designs, all Christmas prints, all matching an ornament and a mug (see the table above). Each pack is three flat sheets, 28.75″ × 19.75″, matte, white on the back so you can write a name straight onto the paper. $24.99 a pack.

One sheet covers a shirt box or a book-sized box, so a pack of three wraps about three everyday presents. If you're wrapping everything in dinosaurs, count your presents and add a spare pack for the awkward-shaped one. The wrapping paper guide works out which box sizes one sheet covers, and the six designs are in the dinosaur Christmas wrapping paper collection.

What to wear for a dinosaur Christmas

This is the smallest part of the range, so here's all of it:

• T-Rex Winter Forest sweatshirt: $41.99, 50/50 cotton-poly, pre-shrunk, classic fit. Sizes S–5XL in seven colors, forest green and red among them. It's the design that also comes as a tee and a mug, which makes it the obvious choice for a matching family photo.
• Merry Little Rexmas sweatshirt: $41.99, same sweatshirt, same S–5XL range, with sport grey in place of light blue.
• Christmas Arms Rex tee: $24.99–$25.99, 100% combed cotton, XS–3XL. The listing says it runs bigger than usual, so size down if you're between sizes.
• Santa Hat Christmas dinosaur socks: $19.99, one size (women's 5 to men's 12), cushioned soles. The easiest stocking stuffer here.
• Christmas Cookies toddler dress: $34.99, sizes 2T to XL. It's a sleeveless A-line dress, so for December, put a cardigan or long-sleeve tee under it.

We don't make a knitted "ugly" Christmas sweater. The two sweatshirts above are the closest thing. For Christmas morning pajamas, our dinosaur pajamas for adults guide covers what's in stock.

The mug for Christmas morning

Ten of our Christmas designs come as a mug, counting the Christmas Arms Rex mug that matches the tee. Most come in 11, 15 and 20 oz, at $19.99, $21.99 and $23.99. Mugs are also the fastest thing we ship, at 3–7 business days door to door, which makes them the gift you can still order in mid-December.

The dinosaur mugs guide explains the sizes and which designs come in 20 oz. All 84 mugs are in the dinosaur mugs collection.

Dinosaur Christmas order-by dates

Everything is made to order and ships from within the US (the listings say Standard Shipping, US only). Each product has its own production and shipping estimate, and the gap between them is big enough that one "order by" date for the whole house would be wrong.

The dates below use the slowest estimate on each listing, counted in business days, for arrival by Wednesday, December 23. Christmas Day is a Friday this year.

Two practical notes. If the decorations need to be up for the weekend after Thanksgiving, move the ornament and wrapping paper dates about four weeks earlier (the ornaments guide has the exact date). And carriers slow down in the last two weeks before Christmas, so treat everything in December as the latest date, not a target.

The simplest plan: order the stockings in October, everything else in one order by early December.

Frequently asked questions

What counts as a "dinosaur Christmas"? Whatever your dinosaur fan wants it to be. In practice it's usually a tree with a few dinosaur ornaments, a dinosaur stocking, and presents wrapped in dinosaur paper. Matching the print across those three is what makes it look like a theme.

Can I get the ornaments or stockings personalized? Not through the listings. Neither the wooden ornaments nor the stockings have a name field. A paint pen on the back of an ornament or on the stocking cuff works well.

Do you ship dinosaur Christmas items outside the US? The listings describe standard shipping within the US only, and every date on this page assumes a US address.

Is there a dinosaur Christmas sweater? Not a knitted one. The two Christmas sweatshirts, T-Rex Winter Forest and Merry Little Rexmas, are the warm option, and both run from S to 5XL.

What's the cheapest way to add dinosaurs to Christmas? A single $17.99 ornament, or the $19.99 Santa Hat socks as a stocking stuffer. A pack of wrapping paper ($24.99) wraps about three presents, and every one of them says "dinosaur" before it's opened.

What should I order first? The stocking. It has the longest shipping window by weeks. Order it by November 3 and the rest can follow in December.

Start with the collection

Every Christmas piece we make, from ornaments and stockings to paper, mugs and clothing, is in one place: shop the dinosaur Christmas collection.