Christmas Lights Display Ideas
- One simple way to create a Christmas lights display in your yard is to wrap strings of lights around pine trees, tree trunks and shrubs. In warmer weather climates, you might wrap lights around palm trees or similar plants. You can choose from dozens of different kinds of lights when you are creating an outdoor display. Incandescent lights are brighter than light-emitting diode, or LED, lights, but they use more energy and don't typically last as long. You could also choose between different designs of lights, including multicolored lights, blinking lights, white lights and icicle-shaped lights.
- The same strings of lights that can be wrapped around lawn trees and bushes can also be used to light up the edges of your roof and windows. If you want to hang Christmas lights on your roof, you will need to get several strings of lights, a ladder, Christmas light clips and an outdoor extension cord. You can use the light clips to secure the Christmas lights to the roof at regular intervals every few feet. Measure the roof to determine how many strings of light you will need before you start attaching the lights.
- Lighted lawn ornaments are also a popular type of outdoor Christmas display. You might buy plastic or metal sculptures shaped like holiday staples such as Santa Claus, reindeer or snowmen. Some of these lawn ornaments light up and need to be plugged into an extension cord, while others are simply stationary sculptures. Some lighted lawn ornaments also have religious themes, such as the Nativity scene.
- If you want to catch the eye of your neighbors with your Christmas light display, consider concentrating on a specific theme. For example, you might make your theme the North Pole or Santa's Workshop. You could use lighted lawn ornaments in the shapes of elves and Santa Claus in his sleigh and arrange them in your yard so that passers-by might see them. Other themes could include snowmen, giant ornaments and pop culture.
