57 Fun & Festive Christmas Door Decorating Ideas in 2024

Looking for great Christmas door decorating ideas? While front door holiday decor is always a classic, we often forget about other doors in homes, schools, offices and interiors that are also perfect for adding a bit of holiday cheer in unexpected places. From luxe and modern looks that complement formal decor to cute and fun ideas for more casual decorations, you are missing out if you don’t take advantage of the great extra space for decor. 

How do I decorate my door for Christmas? What do people put on their front door during Christmas? We’ve rounded up a few great ideas for things to decorate any door — indoors or outdoors. Most of them are DIY-friendly and can be created with simple and widely available supplies or elements from craft and home retailers. 

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• Outdoor Christmas Door Decorating Ideas
• Simple Christmas Door Decorating Ideas
• Modern Christmas Door Decorating Ideas
• Christmas Door Decoration Ideas for School
• Christmas Door Decorations for The Office

Outdoor Christmas Door Decorating Ideas

1. Ice Skates

Vintage ice skates make an adorable hanging decor for your door. Tie them together then loop them over the knocker or a centrally placed adhesive hook. Leave them as they are or fill with evergreen or wintery flowers. Wondering how to decorate your front door after Christmas? These skates will be a great piece of decor all Winter. 

2. Corner Wreaths

For a great alternative to regular wreaths and perfect Christmas door decorating ideas, pick up a Dollar Tree metal corner wreath. Wrap it in greenery or add some rectangular blocks of floral foam and stick flower ornaments and other holiday accents on it for a polished look.

3. Christmas Sled

For another nostalgic outdoor Christmas door decorating idea, hang a small wooden sled on your door decked out with elements like evergreen, pine cones and holly. Or paint a wintry scene and add some hand-lettered or stenciled holiday greetings. 

4. Snowball Wreath

Use ordinary foam spheres from the craft store to create a cute snowball wreath for your Christmas door decorating ideas. Use a metal wreath and glue the balls directly to the metal and to each other to build it out. Add a spray adhesive and a dusting of glitter for some sparkle. 

5. Holiday Swag

Swags are a popular alternative to conventional wreaths that are easy to create and budget-friendly. Use some evergreen boughs tied with some zip ties in the middle. Cover the ties with a cute ribbon in your desired holiday shade for easy outdoor Christmas door decorating ideas. 

6. Festive Garland

One of the simplest ways to decorate your door is to wrap a holiday garland around the perimeter of the door. You can go simple with some real or faux evergreen or create a much more elaborate border using some pool noodles cut in half and a variety of holiday trimmings and ornaments. 

7. Pine Cone Bundle

Grab some pine cones of various sizes and fix them with some ribbon. Fasten a simple bow at the top where they attach to the door. You can also add a dusting of glitter or use cinnamon-scented pine cones that will greet guests with the yummy smell of the holidays for these wonderfully delightful Christmas door decorating ideas. 

8. JOY Banner  

For simple 2-D Christmas door decorating ideas, hang a felt banner with the words “J-O-Y” in large letters sewn to the fabric. This is great for locations with wind or a lot of door traffic since it sits close to the door and won’t get knocked around.

9. Wreath Trio

If one wreath is simply not enough, why not try three? Use the same or differently designed wreaths down the entire length of the door for an extra dose of Christmas cheer and extra festive Christmas door decorating ideas. For fun Elf on the Shelf ideas, have the little guy hanging upside down from one of the wreaths. 

10. Holiday Basket

Hanging baskets can be a great way to assemble larger arrangements to hang on the door. Use a flat-backed basket meant for hanging and fill it with floral ornaments, pine boughs, sticks and holly. 

11. Snowman Wreath Trio

For a fun variation on the wreath trio above, use three white wreaths of ascending size to create a snowman on the door. Add eyes, a carrot nose and a hat for whimsical Christmas door decorating ideas. 

12. Holiday Topiaries 

For a luxe look, add two topiaries on either side of the door. Use a planter as a base and add a stick threaded through three foam floral balls. Cover them in holly leaves, pine wrapping ornaments or floral moss. You can also add holiday detailing like poinsettias, berries ornaments and ribbons. 

13. Holiday Lanterns

If you already have old-style lantern lighting fixtures on your porch or around your door, add some sprigs of real or faux greenery and mistletoe to the base and a ribbon to instantly turn your regular lighting into holiday accents.

14. Glowing Gifts 

Add some visual interest around your door by adding large transparent mesh boxes filled with Christmas lights in various colors you can buy from retailers. You can stack them for smaller stoops and entryways or pile them around the door in abundance. 

Simple Christmas Door Decorating Ideas

15. Gift-Wrapped Door 

One of the easiest Christmas door decorating ideas is to decorate it in gift wrap or a neat bow. Use a large ribbon and bow criss-crossed on a door for a simple indoor Christmas door decorating idea. Add wrapping paper to the entire frame for a little bit extra pizzaz. 

16. Citrus Wreath

For one of the sweetest Christmas door decorating ideas, create a wreath made from dehydrated citrus slices mixed in among greenery or alone. Use a low-set oven or food dehydrator to dry them, then add them to an existing green wreath. They will make the area around the door smell deliciously citrusy.

17. Bells

For some classic and simple Christmas door decorating ideas, use some bells attached to a length of ribbon. They will ding delightfully with the sound of the holidays every time the door is opened.

18. Holly Frame 

For a luxe look, use a gold-painted poster or picture frame on the door with some holly and greenery at the corners. Place it in the center of the door to add a focal point or frame the peephole or knocker for the prettiest Christmas door decorating ideas.

19. Pine Cone Wreath 

Use some hot glue and a foam wreath to create a naturally charming pine cone wreath with a budget-friendly price tag. Add a simple red or green ribbon around the bottom and you have your classic and earthy Christmas door decorating ideas that work indoors or outdoors. 

20. Star-Shaped Wreath

A fun alternative to a round wreath, hang a star-shaped wreath covered in greenery or tinsel in the center of your door. You can even purchase natural woven wreath forms and add some lights to make it shine.  

21. Candy Striped Door

Cover your door in white paper, then add some ribbon wound diagonally around the door from the top to the bottom for a fun candy-striped design that covers both sides of the door. 

22. Giant Stocking

Instead of a wreath or swag, hang a ridiculously massive stocking for wackily fun Christmas door decorating ideas. Not only is it a cozy accent, but you can create a fine DIY version using simple felt with cotton batting around the top. The bigger the stocking, the bigger the present, right?

23. Santa Boot

Use a large black rain boot to create one of the most fun Christmas door decorating ideas. Fill it with flowers, greenery and other holiday elements for simple Christmas door decorating ideas. 

24. Giant Snow Globe 

Create a fun snow globe on any door by hanging a clear punch bowl with its top against the door. Glue some foam or cotton in the bottom and add some holiday accents like bottlebrush trees ornaments and figurines. 

25. Chalkboard Door 

For a great holiday look that will come in useful in other seasons, cover or paint your door with chalkboard paint or peel-and-stick decals. You can write your own holiday messages, gift lists and holiday recipes.

26. Holiday Card Display

Any door makes a cute place to display all of your holiday cards that you receive. Just suspend a ribbon over the top of the door and use small paper or binder clips to clip your cards on with other pieces of holiday goodies like photos, gift tags and more. This makes for some cozy, nostalgic Christmas door decorating ideas.

Modern Christmas Door Decorating Ideas

27. Gold Antlers

Sleek and uniquely sculptured, this door accent will hang on a plaque with gold-painted faux or real antlers. For a more rustic look, leave them in their original brownish finish. 

28. Festive Monogram

If you're looking for something simple and classic, these Christmas door decorating ideas allow you to create a monogram for your door using your family initials. Using large letters from the craft store, paint them traditional holiday colors or gold and silver for a more glam look. You can also add a decoupage treatment using holiday collectables. 

29. Eucalyptus Garland and Wreaths

For a fun and fresh alternative to traditional evergreen, opt for wreaths or garlands made from eucalyptus. Real eucalyptus smells very good, while even faux eucalyptus offers a lush bit of greenery, perfect for pairing with other seasonal decor. 

30. Scandinavian Wreath

Venture to the wintery wonderland of Northern Europe for a more minimalist Scandinavian look. Use a simple wooden or gold ring and add a simple grouping at the bottom and to the side. Use a few sprigs of greenery, pine cones and berries for natural no-fuss Christmas door decorating ideas. 

31. White Poinsettia Wreath

When you're looking for a lush and neutral look, opt for a white poinsettia wreath with gold accents like sticks, berries and ribbon for a clean look that feels festive yet contemporary. 

32. Pom Pom Wreath

Wanting something a bit more colorful and fun? Take a note from college and bring your best Christmas cheer with a wreath that looks funky and modern. Cover a foam wreath with colorful pom pom accents hot glued around the perimeter. These are especially cute Christmas door decorating ideas as you root for Xmas. 

33. Icicle Door

Bring out the essence of the Winter season with coldly cute and shiveringly sleek Christmas door decorating ideas. Drape some plastic or glass icicles over the top of the door. Not only do they look festive, but they will also tinkle delightfully when the door opens or closes. 

34. White Branches

Create a wreath using branches painted white that radiate from the center for these rustically simple Christmas door decorating ideas. Start with a foam wreath and add branches of various lengths with hot glue. For extra sparkle, add some spray glitter to the wood.

35. Plastic Snowflake Curtain

String some dainty plastic snowflakes along a length of clear fishing line to create a beaded curtain effect that will invite guests into your Winter Wonderland home. Hang them along a slender dowel attached to the door with command hooks. Make it modern by hanging fairy lights or rainbow LEDs. 

36. Dried Flower Wreath

For a modern take on a stylish wintry look, choose a wreath filled with all different colors of dried flowers and add some baby's breath, seed pods or dried thistle. Make it look more like a wedding bouquet than a wreath for extra beauty.  

Christmas Door Decoration Ideas for School

37. Candyland Door

Inspire your students with bright and colorful Christmas door decoration ideas. Take some white craft paper and construction paper and shape them into lollipops. Each student can create a paper lollipop and write their name on it — so this doubles as a great crafty activity. Cover the door with other paper candies like gumdrops, candy canes and chocolates of all kinds. This can be a super fun way to decorate the classroom and be the envy of all the other students. 

38. Peppermint Stick wreath

Use plastic red and white straws to create a fun paper wreath that's deliciously fun for the classroom door. It's also really easy to make, just use a wire wreath frame and glue an assortment of straws in different lengths for fun Christmas door decorating ideas for schools.

39. Snowman Door

Use construction paper accents to craft your door into a large snowman figure. Wrap the door in white craft paper, then add a paper hat, coal eyes and a carrot for the nose. Use a paper scarf with real or paper buttons taped or glued on the door. You can do the same thing with brown craft paper to create a gingerbread man. These cutesy Christmas door decorating ideas will be adored by younger students.

40. Holiday Bookcase Door

For all the bookworms in the class, you can create two-dimensional shelves. Place spines of all your students' favorite books, especially holiday-related titles like “The Grinch Who Stole Christmas” and “A Christmas Carol.” These are great Christmas door decorating ideas for the library. 

41. Gingerbread House Door

A fun classroom decorating project is to create a door-sized gingerbread house with paper. Cover the door in brown craft paper and decorate it with a white border. Then, add details like gumdrops, bushes and a mini peppermint stick door on your door. Bring real gingerbread cookies once you're done creating your masterwork to reward teacher's little helpers. Think if you can conjure up any other Christmas cookie ideas to bring along.  

42. Advent Calendar Door

Advent calendars are a must at this time of year. Instead of placing your advent calendar inside the classroom, why not have some fun with these Christmas door decorating ideas for school? Use your door to create an advent calendar that can be opened daily by a different student in the class. Fill each item with fun classroom activities related to the holidays, including treats, Christmas crafts, games, songs and lessons about different holiday cultures. 

43. Name Ornaments

For a cute way to display student names on the door, create paper circles in red, green and other holiday colors. Add names to the door and hang them with double-sided tape on a field of green construction paper. Have the students decorate their own name tags for a fun and creative Christmas painting idea. 

44. Global Traditions Map

Wrap your door in a peel-and-stick world map. Maybe turn this into a holiday activity by asking about the students' heritage, making small cut-outs of themselves and sticking it on the country of their ancestors. Or you can use it as a Santa-tracking map. You can also research holiday traditions from around the globe and stick them up around the map.

Christmas Door Decorations for The Office

45. Giant Snowflakes

For cute and whimsical yet contemporary Christmas door decorating ideas for the office, add some giant snowflakes to your door. You can even buy them with a little bit of sparkle. To make them more visible, you can cover the door in adhesive vinyl in a holiday color like blue or green. 

46. Christmas Tree Door

For a great alternative to a real tree that takes up valuable office space, use sticky hooks to guide a simple garland or fairy lights in a zigzag pattern to represent the ubiquitous pine. Add ornaments and battery-operated lights to resemble a full-sized tree. 

47. Gift Bow Door

Similar to the gift-wrapped door, these Christmas door decorating ideas use only the bow. It's a super simple, yet effective holiday decoration that holds the essence of the holiday spirit — giving and kindness. Hopefully everyone at the office will feel the festive excitement with this decoration. 

48. Giving Tree

For a great way to give back with fun Christmas activities, create a paper giving tree on the door. Each ornament contains a donation item for a shelter, community center or food pantry. Participants can take tags with ideas and return them to the office on a designated day to be donated. This is a wonderful team building activity too. 

49. Stranger Things Door

For a fun homage to the Netflix sci-fi show, drape the door in the letters of the alphabet and then use sticky hooks to shape a set of battery-operated Christmas lights for a fun way to decorate for the holidays. If Stranger Things isn't super popular, you can go with other Christmas classics that have famous doors like "A Nightmare Before Christmas", "Miracle On 34th Street" or "Home Alone". 

50. Christmas Door Decoration Contest

Turn decorating your office door into a contest with judges and prizes. Host various categories like most festive, most funny and best misuse of random office materials. Create the sketches on paper first if you don't have many doors, then build it properly once you've crowned the winner.

51. Ugly Christmas Sweater Door

Deck the doors with these fun and over-the-top Christmas door decorating ideas. Apply Christmas sweater decor like rows of animals, odd shapes, ornaments and fun messages that resemble a holiday sweater. Or just ask people to bring their ugliest sweaters to the office and have them on rotation. The staff can vote for the ugliest one. 

52. Post-It Wreath

Use colorful red and green posts to create a wreath on the door by sticking them in layers in a circular shape for fun impromptu Christmas door decorating ideas in the office. You can also allow people to write holiday greetings on them throughout the season. 

53. Holiday Movie Doors

Similar to the Stranger Things door, enlist your fellow employees to create doors themed around their favorite holiday films like ”Christmas Vacation,” “The Santa Clause,” and “It’s a Wonderful Life.”

54. Stained Glass Scenes

If your doors are glass in the office, use some transparent adhesive film to create scenes that are transparent and create a stained glass effect. Great Christmas door decorating ideas include wintry scenes from the North Pole and snow-filled landscapes. 

55. Secret Santa Door

Create a paper Santa on the door with construction paper details and hang a bag of names on the door. Allow office mates to choose a slip of paper with the name of their secret Santa to give gifts during the office holiday party. Alternatively, make it look like Santa's stuck in the door by filling stockings with cotton and hanging boots on the end. 

56. Santa Operation Door

Make a funny send-up of the popular game by recreating the Operation Game on the door with pockets to reach into. Employees can play the game as they pass by. 

57. Holiday Photo Booth Door

Create a fun photo backdrop to hang your office holiday photos. Take some fun, wacky festive props like elf hats, santa beards and other accessories and get a digital camera and printer ready or get a Fuji Instax for more instant accessibility. You can also create an Instagram account for the office and post the pictures up there.  

What do people hang at the door as a decoration at Christmas? Well, just about anything really. The door can represent the individual's personality or it can be the usual festive wreath. These days, you can go minimal or all-in, but the point is that you have fun doing it! These great Christmas door decorating ideas and DIY christmas decorations are a great way to bring an extra dose of charm to your holidays. Set the tone for your home or office by bringing in an extra bit of festivity to an often overlooked space. 

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