Dinosaur Christmas Stockings: 15 Designs, One Size, and When to Order

Somebody in your house has asked for a dinosaur stocking. Maybe it's a four-year-old who won't hang anything else on the mantel, maybe it's the adult who has had a T. rex on every birthday cake since 1993. Either way, you want to know what's out there, whether it's big enough to be worth filling, and whether it will turn up before Christmas Eve.

That last question matters more than usual here, so we'll be straight about it up front: our stockings are printed to order and the shipping estimate is long. Everything you need to decide is below — the fifteen designs, the real size, the fabric, and the dates.

What every stocking has in common

All fifteen designs are the same stocking underneath. Only the print changes.

• Size: one size, 13″ × 19.3″ (33 × 49 cm). That's a full-size stocking, not a mini ornament version.
• Fabric: 100% polyester faux suede, which has a soft, slightly brushed feel rather than the stiff felt of a supermarket stocking.
• Hanging: a loop at the cuff, so it goes on a mantel hook, a stair rail, a door knob or a bedpost.
• Price: $34.99 for fourteen of the designs; the Merry Christmas print is $33.55.

One thing they are not: personalized. There is no name field on these listings, so what you see in the photo is what arrives.

Picking a dinosaur stocking for each person

The trick most families use to tell stockings apart is a name across the cuff. With fifteen prints to choose from, you can do it with the design instead — everyone gets their own dinosaur, and nobody argues over whose is whose. Here is how the range sorts out.

For small children: bright and busy

• Cute Dino Christmas — a royal blue background crowded with pink, green and turquoise dinosaurs and wrapped presents. The loudest of the fifteen, and the one most likely to be spotted from across the room at 5 a.m.
• Festive Celebration — yellow and green cartoon dinosaurs in scarves on white, with cookies and gifts scattered between them.
• Dino Christmas Party — pastel dinosaurs in Christmas sweaters under strings of bunting, on white.
• Christmas Nuggies — orange dino-nugget shapes in little Santa hats. For the child whose favorite dinner is also shaped like a dinosaur.
• Cookies & Trees — lime-green dinosaurs and trees on white; the lightest and airiest of the patterned ones.

For a traditional mantel: darker grounds

If the stockings hang next to garland and a wreath, the dark-background prints sit better than the white ones.

• Christmas Cookies — gingerbread-colored dinosaurs, trees and hearts on navy. It reads as a classic cookie print until you look closely.
• Christmas Party — dinosaurs and presents on deep forest green.
• Merry Christmas Night — chocolate brown with crescent moons, snowmen, trees and dinosaurs pulling sleighs.
• Merry Christmas — dark green dinosaurs on Christmas red, with "Merry Christmas" lettering worked into the pattern.

For something softer

• Winter Wonderland (pink) — dusty pink with pastel dinosaurs and trees. The only stocking in the range that isn't red, green or white at heart.
• Winter Wonderland (white) — green dinosaurs in Santa hats between Christmas trees and candy canes. Two different listings share the Winter Wonderland name; the photos tell them apart.
• Dinos & Snow Globes — cream, with green trees and little dinosaurs inside snow globes. The quietest print of the fifteen.

One big dinosaur instead of a pattern

• T-Rex Gingerbread — a single huge T. rex in a Santa hat, wrapped in Christmas lights, filling the whole leg on a sky-blue background.
• Dino Holly — T. rex heads in Santa hats, each framed in holly, repeated down the stocking on white.
• Drinking Rex — a T. rex in a Santa suit raising a beer, with "Merry Christmas" in gold script, on black. This is the grown-up one. Probably not for the kids' side of the fireplace.

You can see all fifteen side by side in the dinosaur Christmas stockings collection.

When to order a dinosaur Christmas stocking

Here's the part to read twice. Each stocking is made when you order it, and the listings give two separate estimates for US standard shipping:

Thirty-five business days is seven working weeks. That is much longer than our pajamas or the dinosaur ornaments, and it's the reason this guide is going up in September. Counting back from the listings' own estimates, skipping weekends and Thanksgiving:

At the middle of the estimate, a stocking ordered around November 19 would make it by Christmas; at the fastest, one ordered on December 7 would. But those are the good cases, not the promise. If a stocking arriving on December 28 would genuinely ruin something, order before November. Tracking is sent once your order moves into the shipping stage. Those estimates are for US standard shipping; the listings don't quote times for anywhere else.

Filling it

A 19-inch stocking takes more filling than people expect. A few things from the rest of the shop that fit through the cuff:

• Dinosaur socks — the obvious one, and they pack flat.
• Dinosaur stickers — cheap, light, and the thing you can buy several of.
• A dinosaur ornament — one of our wooden ornaments comes in a stocking shape, if you like the joke of a stocking inside a stocking.

For the grown-up whose stocking is the Drinking Rex, a pair of our adult dinosaur pajama pants is a reasonable thing to leave folded on top.

Questions people ask

How big are the stockings? 13″ × 19.3″ (33 × 49 cm). There's only one size.

Can I get a name put on one? No. None of the fifteen has a personalization option. Giving each person a different print does the same job.

What are they made of? 100% polyester faux suede, with a hanging loop.

Are they sturdy enough to hold a heavy present? They're fabric stockings with a fabric loop, so they're made for the usual small things — candy, socks, small toys. For anything heavy, check what your mantel hook is rated for before you trust it.

What if I'm outside the US? The stocking listings only quote US standard shipping times, so check the delivery options at checkout before you count on a date.

Will they arrive by Christmas? If you order by November 3, the listings' slowest estimate still gets it to you by December 23. After that it becomes a gamble, and after early December even the fastest estimate doesn't make it.

If you take one thing from this page: pick the stockings by the end of October. Start with the full collection of dinosaur Christmas stockings, choose one print per person, and order them together so they arrive together.