Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way… With everyone’s eager anticipation, Christmas Day is coming! In this exciting holiday, are you willing to make some amazing Christmas crafts with a CNC router to celebrate your Christmas?
Today, we prepared ten Christmas ideas in this article and you can try them with a CNC router. CNC router (also called as wood CNC machine) is a powerful tool and it can bring you a lot of Christmas surprise and happiness. No matter you are an old user or you know nothing about CNC machining, these fantastic Christmas ideas are worth a try for you. You can make Christmas decorations, Christmas lights, Christmas ornaments, Christmas gifts and let these DIY Christmas crafts complete your Christmas holiday!
Christmas Ornament for Table Decoration
Speaking of Christmas celebration, one of the best ideas is to make Christmas ornament to decorate your table. So let’s start with this project firstly. Prepare some thick woods, glue and a mini CNC router. First, design the size of ornament top and base. Second, design some Christmas patterns like snowflakes, Christmas tree, Santa Claus, Christmas star or the words “Merry Christmas”. Third, operate your CNC router to cut the woods and engrave the designed patterns. Four, assemble the ornament top and base with glue. Then a beautiful Christmas ornament is finished easily. You can design a memorial table ornament for yourself, or make one for your family as a Christmas surprise. CNC router can engrave the material with high precision, and it worth you to give it a try.
Christmas Light
Want to make a pretty Christmas light to decorate your Christmas Eve? With a mini CNC router, you are free to make a beautiful Christmas light with wood, plywood or MDF material. Engrave the material with Christmas patterns, assemble them together to make the light shade, then put a yellow light source inside. The interior light illustrates through the light shade and reflects an enlarged pattern on the wall. Isn’t it amazing? If you carve a Christmas tree on light shade, you can get a very big tree shadow which brings a warm and romantic feeling to your home, as well as impresses your family members.
Moreover, Christmas light can also be regarded as a meaningful gift and there are many romantic ideas waiting for you to try. If you want to propose to your lover, you can use CNC router to make a personalized Christmas light for her, engrave her name or her favourite Christmas patterns, and hide the ring in the light. CNC router can make high-quality light. And your lover will be very surprised by you and cherish this special proposing gift very much.
Christmas Tree Decorations
The most exciting part for Christmas celebration is to decorate Christmas tree with all kinds of ornaments. There are many ornaments that we can hang on the tree, such as bells, Christmas wreath, Christmas star, snowman or Santa Claus. Can these elements be made by CNC router? Of course! You can make beautiful Christmas ornaments by yourself instead of buying from Christmas store. CNC router can process many kinds of non-metallic materials like acrylic, paper, MDF, plywood, wood, plastic, leather and so on. It can also cut some soft metals such as aluminum and copper. So it’s more easier for you to find a proper material to make Christmas tree decorations. And CNC router can help you to save money since you can make all of these decorations by yourself and even get profit from them.
Memorial Christmas Orn aments
Christmas is one of the most important holidays in many countries. On that day, we would like to review our growth and changes in the past year, and memorize those special moments on this meaningful holiday. That is why we love hanging a memorial ornament on the Christmas tree. And we can try to make memorial ornaments with a CNC router.
Making ornaments with CNC router is very easy. Prepare a piece of wood, acrylic, or even thick paper, and CNC router can engrave the expected patters on it. After you finish your work, find a loop and hang your ornament on the Christmas tree. For the couple who just got married, their first Christmas Day has special meaning for both of them. And if you want to give your wife a surprise, you can engrave a memorial ornament for you and your lover. In addition, for the family that just has a new baby coming, the parents are willing to memorize the baby’s first Christmas with a memorial Christmas ornament hanging on the tree. And this ornament represents the blessing to the baby.
Snowflake Ornaments
White snowflake is the symbol of uniqueness and it represents one’s individuality. And it forms a romantic atmosphere in our home. The real snowflake is delicate and short-lived, but we can make “long-lived” snowflake ornaments to decorate our Christmas holiday. We can use a small wood CNC machine to make white snowflakes with proper materials. If you’re not sure what is the best material to make white snowflake, then I would tell you to make with acrylic. Acrylic is transparent and durable. And the finished acrylic snowflake has exquisite pattern and is similar with the real snowflake. Every snowflake is unique with others, so you can also design different patterns and the CNC router will produce the expected effects.
After your CNC router finish the snowflake ornaments, it’s time for you to think how to decorate your home and outdoor area with these white snowflakes. The first idea is to make snowflakes light. Find some old string lights and glue one snowflakes on the bottom of each string. Then you get a new snowflakes light. You can use the light to decorate the door, window, wall or your yard. And this shining snowflakes light will amaze your visitors. Also, You can glue some snowflake ornaments onto the window, or hang them onto the Christmas tree. If possible, you can also design other colors of snowflakes or try with different materials. As CNC router can handle many kinds of non-metallic materials, so you can get religious snowflakes as always.
Children ’ s Christmas Toys
As for children’s Christmas toys, there are a lot of fantastic ideas waiting for you to give it a try. Here I just list three toys that are easy to make with CNC router. To make this kind of toys, you just need a small CNC router and the most basic 3 axis CNC router is enough to do this job. Children always love playing snowballs, so why don’t make a catapult for your kids? The first idea is to make catapult for playing snowballs. Just find a small wood plate (5 mm thickness is the best) process it with CNC machine to make the bow frame, then on the top of the bow frame, groove a narrow slit. Finally, tie the rubber band on it. Then your children get a great toy to play snowball more funny!
The second toy is wooden puzzle, cut plate into tree pieces and let children put them together. This toy is suitable kids aged at 3-7, and they will love this toy very much. The pattern is not limited, so you can also make more complex puzzles for your children. This toy can be a good Christmas surprise and the cost is very low.
In addition, for the babies or toddlers, there are also many toys that you can make for them. An example is baby rattle. Design a simple rattle that is suitable for baby to hold in hand, and decorate it with some mini ornaments. This baby rattle will be very meaningful for your kids.
Christmas Door Decorations
When celebrating the Christmas holiday in home, we would like to hang some decorations on the door to share with people our happiness and welcome the visitors. It’s a great idea to put an attractive door hanging with “Merry Christmas” and some Christmas elements. If it’s difficult for you to find a impressive door hanging in the Christmas store, why don’t you make one by yourself? If you have a mini CNC router, you can design some cute patterns on the door hanging and I’m sure you must have gotten many fantastic ideas in mind to make a impressive door hanging. CNC router can cut thick plates and carve smooth slit on wood plate. And the machine is easy to learn for beginners and can open a new door for your hobby. What’s more, making some Christmas door decorations doesn’t cost you too much money.
Christmas Tree
In order to celebrate a meaningful Christmas, we usually prepare a Christmas tree in the home. Most people don’t know how to make Christmas tree, so they prefer burying one regular tree from Christmas store. But have you ever thought about using a CNC router to make Christmas tree that you dream of? You can design it by yourself and the intelligent will do the cutting work automatically. Prepare four wood boards (or plywood, MDF and other similar boards) and draw the shapes of trunk and branches in the computer. Use CNC router to cut the boards into four separate pieces. Then cut a few round boards and slot them. Finally, assemble the tree pieces and round pieces together. This CNC Christmas tree can bring warmth to your cozy place and make your family’s Christmas complete. As CNC router has high cutting precision, you will not be disappointed with the finished work. And you will receive many compliments from people for your excellent work.
Blue Elephant also made a beautiful Christmas tree to celebrate our Christmas holiday! You can watch below video to see the detailed process. We made this tree with some wooden plates and our automatic nesting CNC machine. The processing is very fast, and the finished tree is useful, we can put some small ornaments on it. If you have a CNC router, you can also make a nice Christmas tree by yourself!
Name Tags for Stockings
In children’s eyes, the most exciting moment in Christmas holiday is to receive a surprising gift from “Santa Claus”. And names tags for stockings can make this moment more impressive and meaningful. Rather than buying regular name tags from Christmas store, you can make them by yourself with a CNC router’s support. Also, a personalized stocking name tag can be regarded as a gift to your kids. What’s more, you can cut cute name tags for each of your family members, and I’m sure that they will be very surprised and feel happy. The name tag made by you is no less than a common name tag, it is a special gift which is full of love.
Santa Claus
Carving mini Santa Claus is the last Christmas idea that I would like to share with you. And this carving work requires more CAD design skills and profound experience in 3D CNC machining. So this Christmas project is suitable for woodworking artisans or old users of CNC router. In addition, an advanced CNC router with 4 axes will be easier to do this 3d carving work. Although the carved mini Santa Claus requires high CNC machining skills, this project will worth you to try. The mini Santa Claus is very cute and will be loved by both adults and kids. And putting a Santa Claus in the room can decorate your place and add happiness. Moreover, if you have the ability to make this kind of Santa Claus, that means you are able to run a small woodworking business and get profit from it.
Recommend Hot Selling CNC Routers for DIY Lovers
These are the CNC router Christmas surprises that I want to recommend in the end of year 2020. And there are still more amazing ideas waiting for you to discover. CNC router has the advantages of fast cutting speed and high precision. Also, it is easy to operate and is suitable for DIY lovers. If you are impressed with the above Christmas ideas, it’s the right time to own one and do some fantastic handicrafts. In the final part, we would like to recommend four hot selling hobby CNC routers for you. All of them are small in size and the price is affordable. Even though you are a CNC beginner, these CNC routers are easy to learn and will help you to create wonderful CNC Christmas projects. If you are interested in any of these machine, you can just click the link and get to know the detailed introductions.
1. 6090 Advertising CNC Router with Rotary Device
2. Most Popular 6090 Wood Engraving Machine
3. 1212 4 Axis Linear ATC CNC Router with Rotary Device
4. Cost-effective 1212 Desktop CNC Router
Summary
What is the meaning of Christmas? In children’s world, Christmas means gifts and happiness. For adults, Christmas means family reunion. In lovers’ eyes, Christmas means love and forever. And for Blue Elephant family, Christmas means the appreciation to clients and the continuous pursuit to produce advanced CNC router. On this important holiday which has special meaning to each of us, we wish you and your family merry Christmas and have a happy holiday! Let’s embrace the New Year together!
