What's a good Christmas gift in Singapore?

A good Christmas gift in Singapore is one that’s clearly for that person: their name engraved on something they’ll use, or a small figurine of them, their family or their pet. Below are Christmas gift ideas for colleagues and your boss, Secret Santa, family and clients, in every budget, with the dates to order by, because December is when personal gifts run out of time.

A quick key to the figurines below: a Mini Me is a small figurine sculpted from photos. Animated and Realistic are painted by hand and take about four weeks. Colour Print comes off the printer in colour, and Paint your own comes blank with paints, and both take about a week.

Christmas gifts for colleagues and your boss

For the people you work with, the safest gift is useful and personal at once.

• For a colleague, an engraved titanium flask or anything from our gift catalogue with their name on it. It goes to their desk and stays there.
• For the boss, make it one gift from the whole team. A hand-painted Mini Me of them doing whatever the team teases them about, or a layered acrylic award on oak for it, says more about the year than a hamper.

Its honest limits:

• A team gift needs one person to collect the money and decide, so name that person early.
• A hand-painted figurine takes about four weeks from when you order, so the boss’s gift is a November job, not a December one.

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Browse the gifts we engrave in-house

Secret Santa and gift exchange ideas

The office sets a cap, and at that price most presents end up generic. The way out is to make a small gift about the person who gets it.

• Engrave something they’ll use. Our steel luggage tag with their name on it comes in under S$20 when you collect it from our Bendemeer studio, so it fits an S$20 or S$30 cap. Delivery adds a flat courier fee.
• If the cap stretches to S$50, a 10 cm Paint your own Mini Me fits when you pay by PayNow and collect it (a card adds 4%). It’s a blank figurine of them, sculpted from their photos, with twelve paints and two brushes: a gift and an afternoon’s activity in one.

Its honest limits:

• Engraving takes about 5 to 7 working days once you approve the proof, so it can’t be bought the night before.
• You need their name spelled right, and for a Mini Me, a couple of good photos of them.

Engrave a luggage tag

Family: parents, partners and kids

Christmas is often the one time the whole family is in the same photo, which makes it the best time for a gift made from one.

• For parents and grandparents, a hand-painted figurine of the whole family, up to eight people in one scene. Send the photo from last Christmas and the outfits come with it.
• For your partner, the two of you on a trip you both still talk about.
• For kids, a Paint your own Mini Me of themselves fills Christmas afternoon, and they keep what they made.
• For the dog, yes, we make those too.

Its honest limits:

• In Animated or Realistic, each extra person costs about three-quarters of a whole figurine, and three or more people start at the 20 cm size. A Colour Print or Paint your own adds a flat amount per person and fits up to four people at 10 cm, three at 15 cm or two at 20 cm. You see the total before you pay.
• Hand-painting a whole family takes about four weeks from your order, so order by 23 November.

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Clients and staff: corporate year-end gifts

Year-end is when companies thank clients and staff at once, and the gifts that get kept are the ones with the company’s own mark on something good.

• Branded gifts by budget. Our gift catalogue is grouped by budget per person. Each piece carries your logo, laser engraved or UV printed (full-colour ink cured hard by ultraviolet light), done in-house after you approve a free digital proof, runs of 10 or more get a volume quote, and a mixed order counts together.
• Made from scratch. For something nobody else can give, we design it: a mascot figurine, an award or a keepsake around your brand. Shure’s 100th-anniversary mascots were printed, painted and checked unit by unit here, then packed into presentation boxes we made ourselves.

Its honest limits:

• A branded run starts when you approve the proof, so leave time for the proof round before the 5 to 7 working days (10 to 15 for crystal awards).
• Anything made from scratch is quoted as a project, so start the conversation in October, and by mid-November at the latest.

Plan a corporate gift run

Order-by dates for Christmas 2026

Christmas Day 2026 is a Friday, and the studio is closed that day, so these dates count back from Thursday 24 December.

Start a few days before each date, because a Mini Me’s artwork rounds come before you pay and move as fast as you reply. The dates leave room for a courier, or you can collect free from our Bendemeer studio.

If your date is tighter than this, tell us before you order and we’ll say honestly whether it fits.

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