As quoted by Richelle E. Goodrich, “Christmas is like candy; it slowly melts in your mouth sweetening every taste bud, making you wish it could last forever.” Like snowflakes, Christmas create a lasting memory in our minds. Hence, to create lasting memories, it is a must to give a special attention to Outdoor Christmas decorations.
Decorating the house for Christmas is as fun as opening presents on Christmas morning. A great way to celebrate the Christmas festival is to bring alive the joyful spirit of Christmas in and around your home. So, light up your home & yard with all different kinds of Christmas decorations. In this article we have presented outdoor Christmas decorations ideas. And yes! if you are looking for some indoor ideas too then we do have 23 Indoor Christmas Decorations Ideas for This Year!
Outdoor Christmas Decoration Ideas
Christmas tree, Christmas wreath, garlands, ornaments, lights, stockings, and other holiday accents can transform any space into a festive wonderland. To bring alive the Christmas spirit in your house decorate every area of your house with innovative approach for outdoor Christmas decorations…! Here we have gathered some fantastic ideas which will surely light up your outdoors and help you celebrate a safe Christmas this year:
01. Enlarged Christmas Ornaments
Outdoor Xmas decorating do not have to be pain in the neck. You can simply place large sized Christmas ornaments in your outdoors. This will emphasis the festive vibes and speak for itself about that time of the year. Choose large sized Christmas balls for your entrance and place them randomly, this is easy and amazing.
02. Outdoor Dining
If you are fond of dining in chilling cold then setting up an outdoor dining is just perfect for you. Place a dining table in your outdoors and arrange chairs around it. Another option is to choose a low height table and arrange floor cushions for sitting around it. Décor the table with green, red and white colour dining accessories to give those Christmas vibes. This outdoor Christmas decoration can be accompanied with some bon fire and barbeque.
03. Create a Christmas Theme in Your Garden
Decorate your front garden with Christmas theme. Use fairy lights to light up your garden. Place small speakers playing soft Christmas jingles. Hang paper cut Christmas fairy and stars on the trees and plants. Bring in plants like red blooms and berries and plant them in rustic planters. There is no fixed rule here so take the liberty add all the elements that makes you feel Christmas.
For a red-carpet look, you can create a runner with checkered fabric and green burlap that spans from the door to steps. You can have a royal welcome by hanging lanterns topped with a faux cardinal.
04. Revamp Your Entryway For Christmas Outdoor Decorations
The external entryways offer an excellent opportunity to get personal with holiday decor. The simple way to light up the season is a brilliant collection of paper luminaries along with the candelabras made from discarded wine bottles, a garland made from rope and lanterns and evergreens placed in galvanized metal buckets. You can line them along front walks, porches & driveways for a fiery outdoor Christmas decorations display.
Once the sun goes down, the entryway instantly illuminates the way as the glow created by the candlelit wine bottle candelabras and interior & exterior lights of the house.
05. Christmas Décor for Outdoor Kept Bench
If you have a bench outside your home, then what are you waiting for??? Spruce it up with outdoor Christmas décor ideas like surroundings it with lightings on the trees, colourful cushions on the bench, gifts and green bushes surrounding the bench. It will enhance your outdoor seating as well as give a cozy feeling to it.
06. Illuminated Reindeer
Even if after adding your Christmas lights, your front wall is looking dull, Light up your bare front walls of your home with these lit-up reindeer. It is a perfect addition to create an interesting element on your front walls.
07. Give Christmas Touch to Outdoor Furniture
Pull the elements from your home’s decor right into the centre of action by dressing up your outdoor furniture. You have throws available to let Christmas guests know you have their comfort in your mind! Add lanterns and Christmas lights to give a festive vibe to the outdoor space.
08. Garlanding For Outdoor Christmas Celebrations
Simple outdoor Christmas decoration idea is outlining a front door with a garland as it is an elegant & simple way of welcoming the Christmas festival or season. Accessories it with other evergreen bushes and miniature outdoor trees planted in galvanized tub or wood basket. You can also try to hang a basket filled with greens, pine-cones or holly.
Although the grass tends to dry up during the winter months, you can still add a pop of green to your holiday curb appeal with potted evergreens, particularly the juniper and cypress bushes. Dress them up with organic style by decorating them with burlap ribbon.
09. Decorate the Outdoor Trees
Simple way for outdoor Christmas decorations is to lit up your outdoor trees other than a Christmas tree with lights which gives you the elegant appearance at night!
If you have a fully decorated Christmas tree on an entrance porch for a classic display you can appreciate it from inside & outside both!
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10. Abstract Wood Christmas Tree
Make a unique statement piece with reclaimed wood. It would result in a beautiful Christmas tree sculpture. All you need is some wood of different lengths, screws, Christmas lightings and some carpentry skills to fix the tree.
11. Step Up Your Entryway Steps for Christmas
For those of you that do not have a porch but have stairs that lead to your home or landing, you can decorate the entrance by placing a message up the steps for your guests and family to enjoy. These steps are decorated with a red or green potted plant placed on each step with Christmas ornaments and decorative features in red & white to bring out the blossoming of the plant foliage.
The message of JOY is displayed by placing one letter on each of the potted plants in white. The touch of cranberries and pinecones offer a joyful touch. These letters can be made easily from thermocol which is even water proof.
12. Christmas Wreath For Front Door
Christmas wreath decorates the front door. Hang a huge Christmas wreath on the front door. Illuminate the wreath for twinkling effect. Also do not leave the door frames empty. Hang some Christmas lights, balls and other ornaments on door frame. To add some weight place planters, lanterns, shrubs and bushes with a snowy effect on them.
You can find Christmas wreath in any style like traditional flowers & evergreen plants, modern and contemporary twists with different materials & shapes.
13. Decorating Outdoor Arbour with Pine Cones
Another idea of using pine cones is by hanging long pine cones on the arbour. They typically measure a foot long, look festive from near and far. Welcoming your guests with a dramatic swag of flocked sugar pinecones & lichen-covered twigs accented with incense cedar and other holiday greens, some right from the yard, has its own charm.
For an extra layer of visual interest, consider hanging mistletoe or pinecones along the centre at the top of the arbour!
14. Light Things up with Christmas Lights!
An original idea is to decorate your hanging flower baskets by adding Christmas lights to the bottom of the basket and filling the inside with a holiday symbol, like silver metal stars. This idea can be used in many hanging flower baskets at your porch, deck, balcony, etc.
You can hang twinkling Christmas lights on a fountain or stone wall in the garden to create a striking winter focal point from your patio or porch. Even if it’s too cold to entertain the outside, you can enjoy the soft cozy glow through the windows too!
You can use jars filled up with Christmas lights and can also add a touch of green by installing forest green lamps in the exterior of your home or shed for outdoor Christmas decorations.
15. Christmas Lantern
You can arrange a group of festive lanterns at your entryway for a quick & easy holiday style. You can also use the flameless candles as a worry-free factor! Lanterns fill up your entryways with warm lights which creates a welcoming vibe for the guests coming at your homes during Christmas.
16. Joyful Sign for Christmas
It is a welcoming sign reading “Joy”, with the heaps of snow covering each part of it can make it more festive during Christmas! The letter JOY with decorated letters painted in white for J and O and Y made from a green Christmas wreath and bow tied to it.
17. Christmas Lyrics/Songs
You can simply show-off your favourite lyrics of Christmas song by displaying them on a board at your outdoor porch! It would give a Christmas vibe if the board is painted with red and white.
18. Front Porch – Christmas Arrow signs
The signs should be used with red and green colours with white lettering to list the key holiday destinations. You can also add ribbons & strings to the signs to bring attention and making fun to read for your children & neighbours.
19. Drape Your Mailbox with Evergreen Branches for Christmas
To turn this basic mailbox into a focal point, you can surround it with giant candy canes made from plywood & burlap as well as lollipops made from PVC, small bouncy balls, etc.
You can also add life to your mailbox by draping it with garland. An average mailbox gets a seasonal makeover with some evergreen branches, pine cones and a burlap bow.
20. Decorate Your Front Door with Falling Snowflakes
You can use the snowflake decals or hang cut-outs to fill each glass panel of your front door. It looks pleasing and is a decent addition to front door decoration for Christmas.
21. Festive Footwear for Front Door Christmas Decoration
Revive your childhood memories with ice skates. If you still have them, it would make a wonderful outdoor door décor for Christmas. All you need to do is tuck green sprigs with pines and red berries. Hang them with colourful laces on your front door and your DIY is ready.
22. Wine Bottle Candelabra for Outdoor Christmas Decoration
Use an old wine bottles to bring a soft glow to any outdoor area with candelabra made updated with matte black spray paint. To ensure visibility from the sidewalk or street, use white pillar candles.
23. Chalkboard Buck-Head as a Welcome Sign for Christmas
To create a festive welcome sign for Thanksgiving, Christmas & New Year’s use chalkboard buck-head silhouette.
To make this, simply trace a reindeer shape on a piece of plywood, cut it out with a saw and apply two coats of chalkboard paint. Write messages to coordinate with each holiday.
24. Hang Christmas Ornament
You can create a unified and sophisticated alternative to mismatched Christmas ornaments with glittering balls & stars in various finishes.
For backyard Christmas decoration you can also cluster the small Christmas ornaments together for a big impact. These tiny jingle bells recall the larger ones on top of the tree and are so charming when they are used in abundance! You simply need to thread them together with string & hang.
There is no need to remake your decorations each Christmas; you can stick with the familiar. It’s ok if you use the same Christmas ornaments every year! Decorate with vintage glass Christmas ornaments and ornaments given to you by friends and family. The ornaments could be the same but the way of decorating them might vary every year.
25. Hot Cocoa Bar for Front Porch Christmas Decoration
By having a hot cocoa bar on your porch, it will give a warm and cozy gesture to the guests before stepping through the front door!
26. Decorate Your Topiaries for Christmas
Decorate your topiaries by tying colourful ribbon and adding a bow around the lip of the planter. It would look like a mini-Christmas tree.
27. Vintage Buckets as Outdoor Christmas Decorations
You can add vintage buckets as planters for staircase. You can even add a message of JOY on each of the vintage buckets. You can add more character to the vintage bucket by adding colourful cloth and Christmas lights on the vintage bucket.
28. Wood Pallet Tree for Christmas Decoration
This DIY is really very easy and will enhance your outdoor in short time. Paint the wooden pallet like a Christmas tree. Now add pom-poms and add gifts besides on the designed painted tree. Your DIY is ready to give you a soothing aesthetic vibe to your outdoors.
29. Display Table in Front Porch
Decorating your front porch by simple things is sober idea for outside Christmas decorations. Use table cloth to display candles and pine cones to give a warm gesture. Add a Christmas wreath on the front wall above the table to give a Christmas vibe to it.
30. Old Tires For DIY Outdoor Christmas Decorations
Another idea is to paint an oversized Christmas ornaments on the old tires. Paint them and make beautiful Christmas trees and stars for the decoration. It will create a wonderful and safe décor for your home outdoors.
31. Christmas Decorations Outdoor with Inflatables
Christmas inflatables the easiest and sassiest Christmas décor. They come in wide variety and can be reused every year. Easily available online as well as offline. Kids just love inflatables and adults fancy them too.
32. Outdoor Nativity Set – Christmas Story
Christmas is the best time to tell the story behind Christmas festival. And as it said one learns by being in place rather than reading about it, involve your kids in displaying the nativity scenes of Christmas in your outdoors. In Christmas outdoor decorations make a hut, give roles to children as shepherd, mother Marry and fairies. Talk them through the birth story of Christ.
33. Outdoor Christmas Lights with Projector
This is the last moment Outdoor Christmas Décor. If you were cooped in your work and had no time for any Christmas décor then simply go for led projectors. Place them in the outdoors and once it gets dark, simply turn them on.
34. Snow Gauge Yard
It basically measures the amount of snowfall. Interesting right? Make it creative by building a snowman next to it or place an inflatable of Santa next to it. This will measure the snow and on the plus side also act as an outdoor Christmas décor. It can be left even after Christmas is over, just in case you want to measure snow.
35. Decorate Your Vehicle
If you have a vehicle that is not used frequently and most of the time kept as it is, then consider that as an opportunity and extend your Christmas decorations there. Decorate it with wreaths, stars, fairies, balls, lights, reindeers and anything that makes it look like a Christmas vehicle.
36. Dog House Décor
Last but not the least, if you have a dog and a dog house, then do not leave it without any festive touch. Paint your dog house in red, green and white to speak about Christmas for itself. Glue some stickers of snow flakes and fairies. Do not hang or place sharp décor ornaments that are not dog friendly.
On a final note, festival need slots of preparations for decorations. So, this Christmas, tie up your shoes to make your outdoors an excellent place to celebrate Christmas. We hope our ideas will inspire you to create adorning decorations that you can enjoy with children and guests.
FAQs
01. How to make Outdoor Christmas Decorations?
For setting up outdoor Christmas decorations, you have three choices. First, you can buy ready-made or ready-to-use outdoor Christmas décor objects and set them up in your backyard as it pleases you. Another choice is DIY Christmas décor objects. This will awaken your creative spirits, and you will get to display your skills. However, this can be time-consuming, so plan well in advance. Lastly, you can hire a decorator and relax.
02. Where to buy Outdoor Christmas Decorations?
Outdoor Christmas decorations can either be purchased online or offline. They are easily available at any time of the year. Moreover, near Christmas, you may get good deals.
03. How to make Outdoor wire Christmas Decorations?
There are many options for using chicken wire for outdoor Christmas decorations. You can simply wrap it around Christmas trees in a cone shape and then light it with string lights all around. This will keep the tree safe as well as illuminated. Apart from trees, you can wrap chicken wire mesh around any outdoor Christmas décor objects and illuminate them with lighting. As chicken wire mesh is hard and has sharp ends, handle it with care and use safety gear.
04. How to Store Large Outdoor Christmas Decorations?
Once the Christmas season is over, it is time to put back all the Christmas decorations and store them for the next year. Begin with lighting for massive Christmas outdoor decorations. To begin, remove all the lighting, fold gently, form a bundle, knot it up, and carefully place it in a box. After the lights, start deflating all the large outdoor Christmas inflatables, folding them neatly, and packing them in a box. Handle them with care, and avoid pricking them with any sharp objects. Fold back any artificial Christmas trees or other artificial outdoor Christmas décor objects and place them in their corresponding boxes if you set them outside. Name the boxes after the objects and stack them.
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