Outdoor Seasonal Decorating Ideas

Doors and Porches

• Some of the easiest and festive decorations that can express the season are door ornaments. Wreaths, swags or hanging ornaments on your door can be changed to match the season or holiday. Colorful flags and banners that depict the season can brighten a porch. Baskets and pots, either hanging or attached to the door or wall, filled with seasonal plants or items that reflect the time of year can be attractively used as seasonal decoration.

Lighting

• Changing the light bulbs in fixtures to colors associated with the season is a subtle but nice touch to your outdoor environment. Strings of twinkle lights in trees and bushes are especially attractive during the winter holidays and can be used during other seasons as well.

Mailboxes

• If you have a mailbox on a base that is located by the street, decorating it with seasonal themes will share your creativity with the neighborhood. Flowers, plants, vegetables and such can be planted or stacked around the bottom of the base. Commercial mailbox covers are available with attractive seasonal themes. Additionally, you can cover your mailbox with waterproof decorated paper or use a colorful vinyl tablecloth in seasonal motifs to wrap the box.

Trees

• Trees offer an ideal opportunity for additional seasonal decorating of your yard, particularly during a holiday. Hang items associated with a holiday in the branches of a tree or two. Use colored foam board, which will weather well, to cut out shapes like hearts, shamrocks, Easter eggs, May flowers, fire crackers, bright yellow suns, pumpkins and, of course, Christmas ornaments. Discount stores also offer an array of seasonal items at affordable prices, that can be hung from tree branches. Ribbon, bows, and foil garland in colors of the season are another alternative to spruce up the trees in your landscaping.

Lawn Ornaments

• Seasonal lawn ornaments are also available to the homeowner, allowing you to create a festive atmosphere throughout your yard. Colorful seasonal signs, cutout figures, air-blown inflatable animated figures, and 3-D figures can be displayed and changed to suit the season. If you are crafty, you can make painted wooden cutout figures of icons representative of the season like Easter bunnies, turkeys, snowmen, and reindeer. Even large cutout colorful flowers painted in colors of the season make a festive display. Have daisy-shaped, two-foot-wide, cutout flowers painted in pastel colors for spring, bright yellow sunflowers for summer, and autumn orange and burnt red daisies for fall.