Fall Door Decorating Ideas

Seasonal Wreath

• Take a tip from the House and Home magazine website, and create a wreath to display on your door. Buy a Styrofoam ring at a craft or flower shop, and attach silk leaves, plastic fall fruits and vegetables or pine cones to the ring with straight pins or a hot glue gun. When you’re satisfied with the look, thread one end of a 12-inch-long piece of ribbon through the center of the wreath, tie the ends of the ribbon in a knot and hang the seasonal decoration on your door.

  If you’re creating wreaths for the door of a school classroom, let the children glue leaf-shaped die cuts sold at scrapbooking or craft stores to a “ring” created by cutting the center out of a white paper plate. Provide glitter glue, markers and self-adhesive foam shapes that the students can use to embellish the wreaths.

Leaf Garland

• Give your door the feeling of fall with a quick-and-easy embellishment. Buy strands of plastic or silk leaf garland from a craft or party supply store. Before heading to the store, measure the height and width of your door to ensure you buy enough strands to reach around the sides and top of the door frame. Affix the garland along the outside of the door frame with temporary adhesive, tape or tacks.

Decorative Swag

• If you’d like a door decoration with a rustic feel, follow a suggestion from the Country Home magazine website, and use ears of dried Indian corn to design a simple swag. Buy four to six ears of Indian corn at a pumpkin patch, grocery store or craft shop. Tie one 8-inch long piece of ribbon or string to the end of each ear of corn. Hold all of the pieces of ribbon or string in one hand, and pull some of the ends up so the ears of corn hang at different heights. Tie the ends of the string in a knot to form the seasonal swag, and hang it on a hook on your door. If desired, embellish the swag further by gluing silk leaves along the strings.

Classroom

• Let the fall door decoration pull double duty if you’re adding the embellishment to an elementary school classroom door. If you’re trying to motivate the students to turn in their homework, for example, create a sign with brown, orange, yellow and red construction paper, markers and leaf-shaped stickers that read “Fall into Learning.” Give each student a leaf-shaped die cut with his name on it. Each morning, allow the students who turn in all of their homework to display their leaves on the door.