Fun Ideas for Decorating a Door for a Holiday Contest

Have some fun with the trick or treaters by decorating your door.

Holidays are a festive time of the year. No matter what holiday, or what time of year, some people enjoy transforming their home into a holiday wonderland. Some cities, offices and housing developments encourage a holiday spirit by holding door-decoration contests, with prizes to the winner, along with bragging rights. Choose a theme, explore different types of materials, and begin the door-decorating process.

Things You'll Need

• Tape
• Scissors
• Stapler
• Construction paper
• Ribbons
• Wrapping paper
• Colored tissue paper
• Pipe cleaners
• Chocolate heart candy
• Candy canes
• Assorted candy
• Candy cane lights
• Solar lights
• Glow sticks

Instructions

1. Choose your holiday theme.

2. Cover the door completely with wrapping paper, colored tissue or construction paper. Attach it with tape or staples. This becomes your background pallet.

3. Cut out snowflakes from white construction paper for Christmas, pumpkins from orange construction paper for Halloween, and hearts from pink or red construction paper for Valentine's Day.

4. Make bows out of ribbons for Christmas doors, black cats out of pipe cleaners for Halloween doors and tiny flowers with the ribbon as the flower head and pipe cleaner as the stem for Valentine's Day doors. Attach to door randomly with stapler.

5. Add candy. Choose candy canes for Christmas, chocolate hearts for Valentine's Day and a variety of candy for Halloween. Attach by glue or paste.

6. Add lights to the perimeter of the door. Apply a string of white lights for Valentine's Day, candy cane lights for Christmas and glow lights for Halloween.

Tips & Warnings

• Pick colors to match the holiday, like red with white for Valentine's Day, orange with black for Halloween, red with green for Christmas. Gather tape, scissors, stapler, construction paper, ribbons, wrapping paper, colored tissue paper and holiday-themed decorations in one place.

• Keep chocolate candy to a minimum in hot climates as it will melt and create an unpleasant look to the door.

• Purchase lights that can be battery or solar operated to cut down on electric costs.

References

• Disney Family Fun: Deck Your Doors
• North Jersey: Holiday door decorating contest