Christmas Window Decorating Ideas

There is something very magical about seeing the glow of a candle or lights from a home on a cold winter night during Christmas time.

There are so many different ways to decorate windows at home, at work or at school for the holidays.

Create some special Christmas magic using lights, candles, ornaments, snowflakes, trees, garlands, wreathes, cookies, clingy decorations and nativity scenes.

Discover a beautiful collection of Christmas and holiday windows, adornments and decorations to inspire your decorating this year and finding a way to send the feeling and warmth of the holiday glow to those spending the holidays at college or in the barracks.

Putting candles in the windows is a very old holiday tradition, creating the warm inviting glow seen at night.

To create this look you need:

• Single Candle
• Several Candles
• Tired Candles
• Candolier (multiple candles)
• Advent holder with candle
• Arched candle holder

Using a flameless, smokeless, cordless and dripless battery, operated LED candle is a perfect way to light up your holiday windows without any concern of a fire hazzard.

One of the most traditional decorations for the Christmas holiday is hanging up a pine bough wreath.

This look combines the candle glow with the pine boughs by hanging a wreath and including a window swag or pine garland.

To create this look you need:

• Pine Christmas Wreath
• Pine Christmas Swag
• Single LED Candle
• Wreath Hook

Hang up the wreath using the wreath hook, lay out the pine swag or garland (may have to go inside the window depending on the type of garland). Turn on the LED Candle.

This Christmas window with the French "Noel" (Christmas) is a beautiful and classy way of decorating the window.

To create this look you need:

• Pomander Kissing Ball
• White Tassel
• Flameless pillar candles
• Brass Holiday Letters
• Hooks

Attach a tassel to the silk pomander kissing ball and hang in the window using a hook. Put the Noel holder and votive candles to complete the window dressings.

One of the simplest ways to create a beautiful, magical holiday window is to hang up snowflake decorations either individually or as a chain.

To create this look you need:

• LED Snowflakes
• Glass Snowflakes
• Hooks or tape (if needed)

Using LED snowflakes adds a magical glow as the lights cycle through different colors. These snowflakes also come with suction cups to make them quick and easy to attach to the windows.

The glass snowflakes make for a magical window, best seen during the day.Use the hooks to hang up the ornaments from the top of the windowsill.

One of my favorite decorations is the gingerbread cookies and candles in the window.

To create this look you need:

• Gingerbread cookies
• Gingerbread Cookie ornaments
• Berry Wreath
• Cake stand for cookies
• Large LED Candles
• Snowflakes
• Ribbons and thread

Hang up the gingerbread cookies (either real or clay) using ribbons or thread. Attach a cookie inside of a berry wreath to hang. Hang the snowflakes. Put out the candles.

Bake up a batch of Gingerbread cookies with the kids or grandkids using my favorite gingerbread cookie recipe or use gingerbread ornaments.

Turn some cookies into ornaments and put out some more cookies to eat on a cake stand.

One major advantage to using the gingerbread cookies is that they are edible during the making process and after they have been hung up for decorating.

To create this look you need:

Martha Stewart Snowflake Clings available on Amazon.

Decorating the windows with paper snowflakes is more than just a way to decorate at school.

Making paper snowflakes is an easy and inexpensive way to make beautiful decorations for holiday windows.

To create this look you need:

• Paper
• Scissors
• Snowflake patterns
• Snowflake templates

With a bit of imagination and practice you can create all kids of interesting snowflakes.

Try making some 3D snowflakes by linking or gluing several flat snowflakes together.

For many people Christmas is a religious holiday celebrating the birth of the Christ child. Setting up a Nativity scene is a special way of honoring this birthday.

To create this look you need:

• Nativity scene
• Garland with lights

The beautiful nativity scene in the image above is a teak silhouette set. Another look is putting up a more traditional nativity set like the one from Willow Tree with individual pieces to the right.

Image: Elvira Miller. College Dorm Window Decorations. Royalty Free Use.

Another simple window decoration that can be fairly easily done with a minimum of supplies, but still create a magical effect.

To create this look you need:

• String of Christmas lights that can go outside.
• Hooks or tape for attaching.

Decide where the lights should be positioned around the window.

Use hooks or tape to secure the lights. Keep the on switch (or plug) in a dry accessible location.

The classic window display for the holidays is being able to see the decorated Christmas tree through the open curtains.

If you are going to put up and decorate a tree, putting it in front of the window is a way to get two decorations for the price of one.

To create this look you need:

• Real or artificial decorated Christmas tree
• Cardboard cutout of a Christmas tree

For college students who may have finals very close to Christmas it can create some holiday cheer to have some decorations put up. A cardboard Christmas tree is a quick and easy way to decorate.

Put it the cardboard cutout front of the window to have the window decorated too.

Get more Holiday Window Decorating Ideas from homestylist using different lighting.

A fun decorating idea using felt cutouts to create a curtain of tiny trees and mini snowflakes from TheAleva0506.

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