Decorate your garden and outdoor area for Christmas! Evergreen branches, candles, fairy lights and Christmas tree decorations quickly put us in the right mood. If you want to make your own Advent decorations, then check out these simple ideas for outdoor Christmas decorations!
Make your own Christmas decorations for the outside
Make a bouquet of evergreen branches and place it in a large flower vase or pot. Decorative willow balls and red painted pine cones complete the beautiful arrangement.
Decorate the garden for Christmas with lots of fir greenery
Replace the flowers in the hanging basket with evergreen plants such as potted holly, juniper or creeping spinach. Make a wreath out of cedar branches and secure it around the edge of the basket with floral wire. A large green bow gives the winter hanging basket the finishing touch.
Make your own Christmas arrangements for outside: colorful arrangements for the entrance made from natural materials
Decorate the entrance to the house with colorful onesChristmas arrangements made from natural materials. Narrow entrance areas appear visually larger when they are highlighted with a garland around the front door and two tall, festively decorated flower pots. Wide house entrances can also be decorated with animal figures. A decoration with fir greenery, cones and blueberries looks particularly effective. Two deer figures add the finishing touches to the festive ensemble.
In tall amphoras or classic flower pots you can conjure up atmospheric Christmas decorations with fir greenery, pine branches, bay leaves, berries, pomegranates and green apples. If there are any materials left over, you have the option of making a garland out of fir greenery. Optionally, you can simply scatter the tree branches on the ground around the flower pot. This decoration is ideal for the winter season even after the holidays.
The next Christmas arrangements for outdoors will create a cheerful atmosphere and add a splash of color to the otherwise dreary winter garden. Welcome your guests with onestylish decoration made from natural materialswelcome. You will need floral foam and a medium to large plant pot. In the arrangement, spruce, silver fir and creeping juniper form the perfect background and allow the beautiful sea lavender branches and golden magnolia leaves to come to the fore. Cypress branches fill in gaps and add fullness to the festive arrangement.
Christmas arrangements for outdoors: Sea lavender adds a splash of color to the arrangement
Sea lavender will also play the main role in the next Christmas arrangement. Otherwise, the arrangement looks classic: pine cones, fir greenery and cypress branches effectively round off the Christmas ensemble. The materials are extremely durable and ideal for outdoor use. They can easily withstand snow and frost for months and still retain their colors. A tip: put the tree branches as close together as possible. If individual branches later turn yellow, you can easily remove them and the arrangement will still look beautiful.
Christmas arrangements for outside: cones as winter decorations
The next arrangement is super simple and even beginners can easily do it themselves. Fir and pine cones along with sweetgum cones and rose hips are arranged on Iceland moss. The decoration can be arranged in a bowl, in a wooden box, in a wide flower pot or simply on the garden table. If you want, you can drape a chain of lights around the cones or place a lantern with an LED candle in the middle of the Christmas arrangement.
Festive Christmas arrangements for outside: fir greenery in a tree trunk vase
Christmas arrangements made from natural materials can be displayed particularly effectively in homemade tree trunk vases. The next arrangement shines in green and red. Horn bush and rose hip branches are combined with dried spar leaves, goldenrod and tree shrike and create a classic-looking ensemble. Creeping juniper and Fraser balsam fir branches are used as accents and make the arrangement a real eye-catcher outdoors.
Christmas arrangements made from natural materials: festive decoration idea for the balcony
The next arrangement is perfect for small balconies and for houses with a veranda or winter garden. Decoration with natural materials is ideal for houses with a wooden-clad façade in the chalet style. If you want, you can also wrap a chain of lights around the fir greenery or simply hang a lantern over the arrangement. The combination of dried eucalyptus twigs, fir greens, leeks, hydrangeas and pearls is simple and unpretentious, but still very effective.
Willow vine basket filled with red Christmas balls
Make a basket out of willow vines. Take apart a willow wreath and weave a basket from the willow branches. It is best to wear gloves. Watering the rods makes them more flexible and supple. Form several rings that should then be inserted into each other to form a basket. The rings are fixed with wire. Fill the basket with red tree decorations and hang the basket somewhere in the garden.
Weave willow balls
To weave such decorative wicker balls, you can use an inflatable beach ball to make the base structure for the wicker balls. Once the basic structure is finished, let the air out of the ball and start actually braiding the ball. Secure the willow branches with wire. At the end, wrap fairy lights around the willow balls.
Tower made of clay pots
Create a tower of large and small clay pots and decorate with evergreen and berry branches! You need three bowls and three clay pots of different sizes.
Christmas arrangements for outside: arrangements in teacups for the balcony
Winter arrangements for outside – but in small format. Charming arrangements can be conjured up in teapots, teacups and other vases and bowls with Christmas motifs. They are perfect for the balcony table. Our tip: Arrangements with mistletoe twigs or mistletoe leaves look particularly beautiful. If desired, you can also add small bird figures.
Did your grandparents give you a large mug with a Christmas motif? Now is the time to show them off. If you also spray the fir greens, small cones and berries with artificial snow, they will look as if they were brought straight from the forest. Additionally, you can decorate them with fairy lights, mini Christmas balls and poinsettia flowers.
Snowman figure made from clay pots
Whether you are blessed with snow for Christmas or not, you can make a snowman using other materials such as clay pots. And the best part is that it won't melt in the thaw!
Snowmen made of wood and clay pots
Another unusual idea for snowman figures in the garden! Who would have thought that old pot lids could be used for such a creative project.
Winter decoration for outside – ice wreath
Fill a cake tin with water, add berries and ivy leaves, freeze and you're done! You already have a beautiful ice wreath for your garden.
Frosty lanterns for outside
Ice lanterns are just as easy to make. Not with a real tea light, but with an LED candle. This time you need two plastic cups - one should fit into the other.
Make your own ice lanterns for outside
Fill the smaller container with gravel or coins and place it in the larger one. There should be a distance of around 1 - 2 centimeters between them. Place the leaves and berries in the larger container and fill it with water. Leave in the freezer for a few hours. The cups can be easily removed with lukewarm water inside and out.
Glass lanterns on the steps outside
Fill large lanterns with salt, berries or another vase filler before placing the tea light inside.
Garden stakes made of wire and fairy lights
Make flowers out of wire. On each “petal” fix 4 clips at the same distance, on each “flower rod” – 12 clips. Insert the first bulb into the clip on the tip of the petal. Begin winding the string of lights around the wire form by adjusting each bulb into its corresponding clip.
artificial Christmas tree in front of the front door
A Christmas tree not only belongs in the house, but can also be used outsidedecorate for Christmas. Choose a small, artificial Christmas tree and decorate it with weatherproof decorations.
Christmas tree pendant made from thin branches as a Christmas decoration for outside
These star pendants can be made quickly: 4 thin branches were glued to each other crosswise and painted with white paint.
Christmas wreath decorated with oranges, cones and cinnamon sticks
Cinnamon and oranges are among the traditional scents that immediately put us in the Christmas spirit. Decorate your door wreath with dried oranges, cinnamon sticks and cones!
Unusual door decoration – sleigh instead of a door wreath
A door wreath doesn't necessarily have to be round. Decorate an old wooden sleigh with fairy lights and green branches and hang the ornament on the door.
Christmas decorations for outside made of wood:Star made of wooden rulers
Wooden rulers are readily available and less expensive than wooden slats. This can quickly be used to form a large star that can decorate the house facade.
Christmas decorations for outside made of wood: Make your own Christmas tree out of pallets
Not only beds, tables and cupboards can be built from Euro pallets. You can also conjure up beautiful Christmas decorations with a little creativity. The Christmas tree made of pallets can be painted and decorated as desired. For a playful vintage look, paint the Christmas tree sky blue or lavender and then partially sand off the paint. This is how you can imitate the popular old look.
Christmas decorations for outside made of wood: large format fairy lights
Modern Christmas decorations can also be made from wood. For example, you can make a string of lights. Cut the individual light bulbs out of wooden boards and then paint them in an accent color. Then attach the colorful arrangement to the front door. Drape a garland of fir branches around the light bulbs and the modern Christmas decoration for the entrance to the house is ready.
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