To celebrate our current free Lego Christmas tree competition, we’ve taken a trip down memory lane to explore (just about) all the trees Lego has ever launched for the holiday season. We’ve also included instructions where possible, so you can get ideas for making your own festive tree build. Which is your favourite?
#40573
Launched in September 2022, this is Lego’s most recent Christmas tree offering: it includes 784 pieces and is recommended for ages 12+. The great thing about this set is that you can build it as one 30cm tree, or two smaller 23cm and 16cm trees. Download the large tree instructions here and the small tree instructions here. You can win this Lego set in our competition – details here!
#40338
Launched in November 2019 and retired the same year, this 392 piece Christmas tree set #40338 was quite a bit smaller than Lego’s latest offering. Still, it did come with some nice shiny and sparkly ornaments, presents and a model train set detail on the much more detailed base. Download the instructions here.
#40058
This polybag set was released in January 2013 (oddly), and retired December the year after. Aside from the tree itself (complete with a cute little star tree topper), it included the two minifigures shown which are unique to this set, together with the presents. Download the instructions here.
#30186
Another polybag set, this little tree was released in June 2013 and discontinued at the end of December the same year. Tiny and fairly basic, most of the pieces besides the star are likely to be in your Lego collection so it’s great inspiration for a mini build. Download the instructions here.
#40024
Another polybag set, this Christmas tree from 2011 is also a very basic but cute design. We couldn’t find instructions for this one unfortunately.
#30576
Featuring the same cute tree-topper as set #40058, this was another polybag released in September 2020 and discontinued at the end of December the following year. Download the instructions here.
#30009
According to Brickset, this mini 47 piece set was given away with The Daily Mirror Promotion October 2010. We found instructions for this set here.
#30286
This cute polybag Lego Creator set with its adorable mini train was available from June 2015 to December of the same year. The build uses very basic bricks and is easy to copy. Download the instructions here.
#10069
You could definitely be forgiven for missing the fact that set 10069 from 2002 is a Christmas tree altogether! This super plain set is actually a doddle to build, so a good one to take ideas from. We found the instructions here.
#40002
Released in 2009, this is definitely a least-favourite of all the festive builds! We think it looks a bit like a 3 year old created it and we’re not too sad about the lack of building instructions on the web…
#LJXMAS03-1
This super-blocky Lego Christmas tree could be a Minecraft build! It was only sold in official Lego stores in Japan in 2003. We couldn’t find building instructions for this one, although you can probably figure it out by yourself.
Last but not least, we’ll leave you with a full-sized non-official Lego Christmas tree, built by a Reddit user’s boyfriend. The build was designed by Tennessee Lego Club and with a bit of digging around the dark corners of the web, we managed to find the 640 pages of instructions to build the Christmas tree here (all credit and copyright belongs to tnvlc.org). Does anyone have 10,020 green 2 x 4 bricks we can borrow?
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