Coolest Christmas Decorating Ideas
Home » Christmas Central » Christmas Decorating Ideas
You’ll find loads of cool Christmas decorating ideas on this page.
One of the coolest Christmas decorating ideas is to turn your indoor party area into a frozen lake surrounded by snow-covered hills. Cover the furniture with white sheets for the hills. Use this artificial snow, Styrofoam packing peanuts or cotton batting for snow. Then tape clear plastic garbage bags to the floor for the frozen lake. You can wrap your doors in Christmas wrapping paper and attach large bows made from fabric or ribbons.
To make an indoor igloo ball pit, build a tent inside the house and cover it with a white sheet. Decorate the inside with Christmas or snow-related decorations and throw more of those Styrofoam packing peanuts inside for snow. You can also use a Kiddy pool for this.
For a different look, add as much red and green as you can (you can use red and green blankets, scarves, towels, or even scraps of fabric as throws for your sofa, chairs, tables, etc.).
Check out this site where you’ll find loads of awesome Christmas decorating ideas.
More Christmas decorating ideas can include dispersing jingle bells all around the party area or putting bowls full of jingle bells on the table so that everyone can jingle! On tables you can also put this great printable/foldable Santa Claus.
A nice idea for a table centerpiece is to take a terra cotta pot, and with a glue gun, glue candy canes (side-by-side, standing on end with their hooks at the top) to the outside of the pot. Then tie a red ribbon around the pot and fill the pot with wrapped candies or better yet, a small poinsettia.
Another great centerpiece is to take baskets and display pinecones and cinnamon sticks in them. You can then spray potpourri oil on them (vanilla, cinnamon, apple, gingerbread, etc. would fit well for Christmas). You can also spray your pinecones first with silver, gold, red or green paint or dab a bit of glue on each of their points and sprinkle with colored glitter. If you don't have any pinecones in your area, you can sometimes find them (most likely pre-scented) at a craft store.
Decorate the party area with hanging snowflakes cut out of white cardstock or even simple white paper. Tie red and green bows to door handles, around railings and banisters, around candlesticks, plant pots, etc. Hang red, green silver and gold balloons, and use white batting for snow. You can buy small bells from a craft store, attach each bell to a piece of ribbon, and hang them all over the party area. You can also gather a few bells, tie the ribbons together, knot at the top, and drape over a doorknob so that whenever someone enters or exits, the bells will ring. Put a beautiful wreath on your door. You can also print out this homemade wreath.
Another one of those cool Christmas decorating ideas is to create a Christmas treasure chest. Take an old blanket chest and prop it against a wall (with the lid open). Then fill with white Styrofoam or fiberfill for the illusion of snow. Fill the chests with wrapped presents or even wrapped empty boxes. You can also disperse little candies, Hershey kisses, gold chocolate coins, etc.
You should also visit our Christmas printables section, where you’ll find lots more printable holiday decorations to add to your Christmas decorating ideas.
If your party is at night, and you want a romantic touch to it, you can take little round candles (the ones with the aluminum bottom), and let them float in pails of water. Disperse rose petals or other flower petals on the water as well.
You can also buy assorted white Styrofoam balls and hang lots of them at different lengths from the ceiling (as if it's snowing...), or just disperse Styrofoam, cotton balls, or even different sized white balloons all over the floor. Also, hang a collection of Christmas stockings on your mantle, a shelf or the wall (even if they aren’t stuffed – the more the merrier).
A nice accent is to string a ribbon from one end of a wall to another attaching it to the wall (at each corner) with thumbtacks. Then, you can take Christmas cards and with a clothespin clip to the ribbon (if the ribbon is too long, the weight of the cards will most likely pull it off the wall, so if you are planning on doing this, tack more thumbtacks in more places).
Also, cover the windows with paper snowflakes, scatter around Christmas candles, and hang holiday lights inside and outside, on fences, around windows, doors, or anywhere you want to add some charm.
You can even make a snowman out of white balloons. Glue together three different-sized white balloons one on top of the other and give the kids markers (or q-tips with paint) to add the facial and body features. Place the balloon snowman next to the entrance.
More fun Christmas decorating ideas for decorations can include a North Pole. Cover a large pole with white and red crepe paper and add a sparkly ball on top. Write, "Welcome to the North Pole" and place it also next to the entrance. You can decorate your whole party area with candy canes of assorted colors, put them in plant pots, you can give one to each new person that comes, disperse them on the table for more color, hang them with string from the ceiling, etc.
You can get your kids to help you with these Christmas decorating ideas, for instance, let them string popcorn, cranberries, cereal, beads, etc. and hang garlands everywhere as well as twisting them around railings and banisters. Make large cardboard candy canes, peppermint candies, etc. and hang them around the party area. For quick ornaments, hang Christmas cookie cutters with ribbon (you can hang them on your tree or in a window).
Hang fun signs all around the party area, such as 'Danger Ice', 'Reindeer Crossing', 'Elves Ahead', etc. Wrap indoor Christmas lights around a railing or banister (secure with tape in a few places. Make sure to tape down the electrical cord so that no one trips over it). Check out these nice colored lights.
Here's one of the coolest Christmas decorating ideas - Make Santa's boot and hang it from the ceiling? Just take an old boot, connect it to some red material (to look like the bottom of pants, and don't forget to sow on some white fluffy material to the end of it so that everyone understands that it's Santa's boot). Then take a piece of white cardboard and cut a plus sign in the middle (two slits that are perpendicular to each other). Then stick the boot into the slit, staple the fabric to the inside of the cardboard and fasten the cardboard to the ceiling. It may sound confusing, but this picture will clear things up.
If you really want to get into the winter atmosphere with your Christmas decorating ideas, this Snowflake machine is probably the most original item on the market (especially for those of us who lack snow.). The kids just love it!
Here are some cool ideas for Christmas decorating ideas for your Christmas tree...
