Outdoor Christmas Decorating Ideas

for Your Front Porch and More

When thinking about your outdoor Christmas decorating ideas, start with your front porch or front door.

Use it as the focal point for your decorations to create a special holiday theme - for example Santa's workshop, a winter wonderland, or the Nativity.

Outdoor Christmas decorations range from very simple to full-out elaborate. Dave and I prefer simple but we also love to see the elaborate lights and decorations in our town.

• A decorated front door is very captivating. You can use foil wrapping paper to cover it and tie it with an over sized large bow.
  
  Metallic colors work best like gold, silver, or red and green. Another festive idea is to frame your door in lighted garland and embellish with colorful boxes like the photo shown here.
  

  

• Add a beautiful wreath in complementary colors. Need wreath ideas? Not to worry, see our Wreath Ideas for Christmas section for great wreath designs.



• Place a beautifully decorated tree on your porch. Secure the tree to your porch so it does not fall. String white lights on it and use spray snow on the tips of the branches. Finish it off with large red bows.
  
  For a sparkling effect use blinking lights. Wrap boxes in colorful foil paper and place underneath. To protect the wrapping paper from the weather spray the wrapped boxes with lacquer.
• A fun family project is to create a natural garland across your porch railings. Gather lots of pine cones. Use flocking (spray snow) to lightly dust the cones. Use spray glue to lightly cover the cones and then add glitter (silver, red, and green). Use yarn, ribbon, or string to tie the cones together. Add bows or ornaments and drape across your porch railings.



• Decorate your porch with lights - see our Outdoor Christmas Light Decorating Ideas section for many unique ideas.
• Choose from a multitude of figures to place on and around your porch. You can create Santa at the North Pole, a nativity scene, Frosty the Snowman, and so many more.

  We like theme decorating but we know there's many that like to put every new holiday decorating feature in their yard each year. Do you have a house like the one below in your neighborhood?
  

  

  
  
  
• Decorate your porch windows with either electric or battery operated candles, Christmas wreaths, all framed by lights hung around the frames.

• Wreath Ideas for Christmas
• Instructions for Making Christmas Wreaths
• Outdoor Christmas Light Decorating Ideas

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