The best festive Lego sets you can buy for Christmas 2024

• RRP £39.99
• Age 12+
• 433 pieces

One of the new sets for 2024 is this Christmas Table Decoration. It’s a red candle surrounded by berries and ferns and it looks rather striking. It’s exactly the sort of thing you can imagine in the middle of your table on Christmas Day — though it’ll look just as nice on a mantelpiece or shelf.

It’s a little pricey for what it is, but it’s the sort of thing that you’re going to be able to pull out every Christmas for years to come.

Lego Icons 10340 Wreath

• RRP £89.99
• Age 18+
• 1,194 pieces

Lego has just retired a wreath set, but the one that it’s replaced it with is so much better. The Lego Icons Wreath, new for 2024, looks real. Seriously: only if you look closely would you realise this was made out of Lego. Decorated with berries, fruit and cinnamon sticks, it looks absolutely gorgeous.

The only downside here is the price: at £89.99, this is rather steep, making it one of the most expensive Botanicals range sets ever made. But it is made up of 1,194 pieces, so it does offer decent value in that regard.

Lego Icons 10339 Santa’s Post Office

• RRP £89.99
• Age 18+
• 1,440 pieces
• 5 minifigures

This year’s Winter Village set is Santa’s Post Office, a colourful, fun-loving set that’s going to make a wonderful addition to any Lego Christmas display. The blue-fronted building has a fully-featured interior, including a sorting office, a log fire, a writing desk and an entrance hall.

The star of the set, though, has to be the green-and-gold hot air balloon, which we presume elves use to deliver mail? We’re not sure how it works to be honest. But it looks wonderful all the same.

Lego 40573 Christmas Tree

• RRP £39.99
• Age 12+
• 784 pieces

Putting up a real Christmas tree can be a bit of a pain. But this Lego Christmas tree is an absolute joy to build, and it looks absolutely wonderful. Okay, it might not be big enough to put all your presents under (it stands at just under a foot tall), but it looks fantastic on any mantel or window sill.

Lego Icons 10308 Holiday Main Street

• RRP £89.99
• Age 18+
• 1,514 pieces
• 6 minifigures

2022’s Winter Village set is the beautiful Holiday Main Street and, amazingly, it’s still available. This year will be your last chance to pick it up though: when it’s sold out, it won’t be coming back in stock.

Rather than just one building, as we so commonly see from the Winter Village range, this comes with two, and a wonderfully festive tram car. There’s also a Main Street street sign, and a standalone Christmas tree. If you’ve got a festive Lego display, then, this will slot right in, adding some beautiful detail to any city.

Lego Icons 10325 Alpine Lodge

• RRP £89.99
• Age 18+
• 1,517 pieces
• 5 minifigures

Now for 2023’s Winter Village set, the Alpine Lodge leaves the town behind and heads into the mountains. We absolutely love the log-built details of this gorgeous little winter home. Turn the set around and the internal detail feels warm and cosy, invoking the spirit of a happy family Christmas.

Along with the building, you’ll find a snow-covered outhouse, a snowmobile and a pair of skis for your minifigures to hit the slopes with.

Lego 40642 Gingerbread Ornaments

• RRP £10.99
• Age 6+
• 190 pieces

The Lego Gingerbread Ornaments allow you to create custom decorations that you can hang on your own Christmas tree. You can follow the instructions, of course, or you can create three of your very own gingerbread designs. How about making yourself, and your own family, in gingerbread Lego form?

Not only is this one of the best (and cheapest) Lego Christmas sets, it’s also one of the most fun.

Lego Ideas 21330 Home Alone

• RRP £259.99
• Age 18+
• 3,955 pieces
• 5 minifigures

It may not be part of Lego’s Christmas range, but is there anything more festive than the McAllisters’ house from Home Alone? One of our favourite Lego Ideas builds, this huge set recreates the exterior and interior of the iconic house from one of the best Christmas movies ever made.

You’ll find all of Kevin’s traps here, many of which can be played with so you can recreate your own favourite scenes from the movies.

Lego 40499 Santa’s Sleigh

• RRP £39.99
• Age 9+
• 343 pieces
• 1 minifigure

Lego’s Santa’s Sleigh is one of our favourite smaller Christmas builds, and it looks wonderful as a part of any Christmas decoration set-up.

It’s, of course, a gorgeous recreation of Santa’s Sleigh, complete with four reindeer, a sleigh filled with toys, and naturally, Santa himself. Santa even has a ‘naughty or nice’ list… wonder if you’re on it?

Lego 40640 Nutcracker

• RRP £10.99
• Age 8+
• 208 pieces

A colourful and cheery chap, this little Nutcracker fellow is a lovely addition to any Lego Christmas display. And at only £10.99, it’s one of the cheapest, too. An iconic festive design, it looks striking thanks to the bright red and yellow colours.

It even has movable parts: push a switch on the pack and its mouth moves up and down. Its arms move, too.

Lego 40744 Christmas Ornament Selection

• RRP £10.99
• Age 6+
• 153 pieces

We’ve already had a set of gingerbread-shaped tree ornaments, and now it’s time for something a little more traditional. This Christmas Ornament Selection is new for 2024, and lets you build four ornaments: Santa, a reindeer, a snowman and a gift.

We like that the ornaments come with bespoke rings to hang onto a branch. It also means that you don’t have to follow the instructions: you could get creative and design your own ornaments from scratch.