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The Christmas season is the ideal time of year to tap into your childlike wonder and lean into the decorations. Once your tree is set up inside, bring your creativity outdoors and let your inspiration guide you.
If you’re still dreaming up design ideas for your outside holiday decorations, here are 20 fun options for Christmas inspiration!
Wooden Reindeer
Wooden reindeer are a classic lawn decoration that always stays in style. You can take matters into your own hands with a DIY version, and you’ll get a beautiful Christmas set you can reuse every year.
Gardening Pot Silver Bells
Turn those empty garden pots in your garage into stunning silver bells that sparkle in the night sky! Simply apply silver spray paint, drill a small hole through the center of the bottom, flip the pots upside down, and attach a large bauble ornament to hang down just below the opening of the pot. Hang a few of these from the roof of your porch for a festive look.
Classic House Lights
You can’t go wrong with classic warm white lights trimming your roof and windows. It’s festive without being obnoxious, and you’ll never have to worry about them falling out of trend. Just remember to turn them on as the sun sets each night to emit that holiday sparkle.
Consider connecting your string lights to an EcoFlow DELTA Series Portable Power Station to save on your electricity bill. You can charge it during off-peak hours and use the energy to keep your lights shining bright even during peak hours when all the neighbors have their lights on display.
Gingerbread House Porch
Turn your front porch into a gingerbread house with candy cane siding, gumdrop trim, and a few spirited gingerbread characters framing either side. If you have kids in the house, they’ll love being greeted by this friendly and fun sight every time they use the door.
Animatronic Elves
Bring Santa’s workshop to life with your own army of animatronic elves hard at work every night during the holiday season. You can often find these characters at home improvement or decor stores, or you could dress up some regular animatronic gnomes with Santa hats and call it done!
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Oversized Ornaments
Turn yoga balls into oversized lawn ornaments scattered around your garden. Just glue a small plastic plant pot to the ball, add a loop for hanging, and give your children’s old toys new life hanging from a tree or simply fixed in the yard.
Glowing Gift Boxes
Illuminate large gift boxes from within with bundled string lights inside. While they won’t hold any real presents, they’re sure to keep the magic of Christmas alive with their warm welcome every time you come home.
Big Tree Lights
Nothing screams Christmas like fairy lights draped around a tree, but you can take the idea to the next level with extra large tree lights. It’s easy to do – just upcycle a few two-liter plastic bottles, add a large bulb inside each, and string them together using pool noodles or rubber tubing.
Giant Lollipops
Wrap pool noodles with Christmas ribbon, then roll them up like cinnamon rolls and hot glue as you go. Wrap with cellophane, and stick on a PVC pipe to create life-sized lollipops for your yard!
Driveway Light Tunnel
Make your trips to and from home more magical by turning your driveway into a tunnel of lights. Stick to all-white, or mix and match with colors depending on your taste. You can gently bend metal to create large arches and run the lights along each arch. Add as many arches as you’d like.
Santa’s Sleigh Come to Life
Everyone will believe in Santa when they see his sleigh come to life on your lawn! Use your wooden reindeer elevated with PVC pipes or yardsticks; add a wooden sleigh propped up to look like it’s taking off and a stuffed Santa character at the helm. Hide the props with fake snow to give your display a realistic look.
Music or Movie Timed Light Display
If you want to take your holiday decor past the sense of sight, incorporate holiday music or movies. You can find systems that will sync up with music or film to create your very own light show.
Don’t forget to add a sign in your yard with instructions so viewers can experience the full scale of your holiday creation. Take it up another notch by creating a DIY outdoor bar so people can really enjoy the show.
Lights, music, and speakers can quickly add to your electricity bill. Consider using the EcoFlow DELTA 3 Series Portable Power Station as an alternative to your home outlets. You can even pair it with EcoFlow Solar Panels for an entirely eco-friendly and hassle-free outdoor display that can save you serious money.
Inflatable Christmas Characters
Kids love the big, blow-up Christmas characters. If you like to lean into the kitschy aspects of holiday decorating, it doesn’t get much easier than plugging in a few characters. Just remember to unplug them each morning, or you’ll be spending a lot of electricity to keep them alive!
Gift Wrapped Porch Pillows
Sometimes, the most minor details make the most significant difference. If you already have pillows on a porch swing or chairs, give them the Christmas treatment by wrapping them in burlap and donning a red and white bow, like they’re presents to unwrap!
Glowing Poinsettias
Poinsettias are the most classic Christmas flower. If big light displays and excessive setup or prep work aren’t your thing, grab a few poinsettias from your local garden center and add a solar-powered light to the base of each pot to light them up from below and create a magical ambiance at night.
Front Porch Mini Tree
Bring the Christmas magic outside with a smaller faux tree on your front porch. Get creative with the ornaments and decor on this one! Let the kids pick a theme and run wild with their imaginations to share Christmas spirit with all your neighbors.
Front Door Present
Turn your front door into a gift! Cut two long strips of gift wrapping paper about 8 inches wide and run them cross-wise along the center of your front door. Add a large bow where the two strips intersect.
Frequently Asked Questions
Make the outside of your house look Christmassy with a combination of festive lights, whether classic warm white or colored, wooden or inflatable characters, DIY ornaments or silver bells, plenty of poinsettias, or gift-wrapped doors and porch pillows. Use your creativity to guide the way!
You can take a few approaches to decorating your outdoor space for Christmas. Christmas lights are always classic; you can’t go wrong with lights along your roof and wrapped around your landscaping. Other ideas include wooden or blow-up characters, DIY ornaments, candles, or gifts. Or, go bold with a music-synced display!
Your porch can become a Christmas wonderland with just a few touches. Turn your door and porch pillows into gifts by wrapping them in ribbon or gift paper and a large bow. You could also frame your door with poinsettias or decorate your porch like a gingerbread house that’s come to life.
You can light up outdoor Christmas decorations using fairy lights, solar-powered lights, or regular landscape lights connected to alternative power sources, like solar panels, solar generators, or portable power stations. You can also connect them to an outlet outside your home.
Final Thoughts
Christmas is meant to be fun, so bring that joy and wonder into your outdoor decorations! Whether you stick with a classic look and design or come up with creative DIY activities, the process can be just as enjoyable as the final product. And don’t worry about the excess energy that many decorations rely on.
Connecting them to EcoFlow Solar Generators lets you keep your December electricity bill low by using the sun’s power.