Learn how to make a full snowman door decoration complete with outdoor lighting and a few craft supplies. This full-door decoration is a great way to add cheer to your front porch this holiday season. It’s an easy DIY that uses the most basic crafting supplies! This post is sponsored, however, all projects and opinions are my own.
When it comes to front porch decorations for Christmas, the door is always the focal point! Whether you decide on a simple Christmas wreath or a “Joy” – filled whole-door covering, we’ve got you covered.
Personally, I love snowmen, so when I thought of this idea, I ran with it. If you are creating a snowman theme this holiday season, I have so many crafts on this site that will keep you busy.
Try these wooden snowman ornaments, a tiered snowman grapevine wreath, or a reversible scarecrow and snowman sign for your porch!
Another thing that really amps up the Christmas spirit: color and lights! Have you ever wished you could change those colors at the press of a button? Well, now you can!
Enbrighten Color Changing Cafe Lights and Landscape Lights make decorating for the holidays easy and fun. In these boxes, there are 16 different colors and selectable color modes. This allows you to pick your favorite color, two-color combination, or preset color modes. That makes for over 120 possible color combinations! Now that is bringing a little color to your life!
If you love spreading Christmas cheer as much as I do, read on and learn a little more about these lights as they change color and they are remote controlled!
How to Make a Snowman Door Decoration
Supplies needed for a snowman door decoration:
- Mini Landscape Lights
- Seasons Cafe Lights
- Stick-on light clips
- Extension cord
- Black and Orange craft paper (sometimes called butcher paper)
- White craft paper (wide enough for your door)
- Tape
- Scissors
- Scarf
- Command Hooks
- Black Marker
- Paper Snowflakes (make these or purchase!)
- Fishing Line
Making Snowman Door Decorations Video
Want to see just how I made my snowman door decorations this year? Just watch the super quick video below!
Can’t watch the video or missed some of the steps? No problem! Just follow along below!
Lighting Instructions
Grab Enbrighten Color Changing Lights. You will need the Mini Landscape Lights and the Seasons Cafe Lights.
Add the Enbrighten Cafe Lights around your door. You can use stick-on light clips to make this easier.
Add the stakes that are included in the packaging to your Enbrighten Landscape Lights and add them up and down your sidewalk and on your steps as well.
Run an extension cord to your creation and plug it in! You can then use your remotes to create all of those gorgeous color combinations!
Snowman Door Decoration Instructions
To make the snowman add white paper to your door with tape. Also, using the wide butcher paper really helps cut down on the multiple layers, so make sure you buy a width large enough for your door. If your door is already white, you can skip this step!
From the black and orange craft paper, cut and tape on a paper nose, eyes, and buttons. I just used scissors to cut these from paper. After all, the eyes and buttons are supposed to be coal, and that is not perfect. Plus, have you ever seen a perfect carrot?
Grab a festive scarf and attach it with some command hooks. Then draw on a mouth with a large magic marker.
Add some paper snowflakes on fishing line to complete the look if desired. You can cut these by hand or with a craft cutting machine. If you want a short cut, grab these from a craft store.
Changing the Light Colors
Here is an up close picture of the remote so you can get an idea of all of your options. In addition to the color changing aspects, you can also dim them, set countdown timers, and create other fun effects. I used the two color options for my snowman door decorations. Just click color 1 and choose red. Then click color 2 and choose green. You have multi-colored lights in minutes! Each set of lights come with one remote, but the remotes are pairable, so you only need one for all of your lights!
My favorite part is the durable, impact resistant acrylic Edison-style bulbs. I love the look of an Edison bulb but am always too scared to use them outside. These won’t break if dropped, stepped on, or blown around in the wind. They are actually designed to withstand year-round exposure to the elements so you can use them for so much more than just snowman door decorations.
Now for the big reveal! After all, you have to wait until it gets dark to actually see what you have created.
The picture above is with the red and green lights and is perfect for Christmas. But you can change to white and blue after the holidays for a cute winter display! Lights you don’t have to take down after Christmas? Sign me up!
You can even use the lights on strobe if you wish. Want to see the strobe in action? Be sure to watch the video at the top of this post!
So, where do you purchase these great lights? You can click here to find them on Amazon.
Once you have them in hand, use them to create fun snowman door decorations like these around your home this holiday season.
Change up the lights with color combos or even monochromatic looks for decorations all year!
Equipment
- Extension cord
- Black and Orange craft paper (sometimes called butcher paper)
- White craft paper (wide enough for your door)
- Tape
- Scissors
- Command Hooks
- Black marker
- Fishing Line
Supplies
- Mini Landscape Lights
- Seasons Cafe Lights
- Stick-on light clips
- Paper Snowflakes make these or purchase!
- Scarf
Instructions
Lighting Instructions
- Grab Enbrighten Color Changing Lights. You will need the Mini Landscape Lights and the Seasons Cafe Lights.
- Add the Enbrighten Cafe Lights around your door. You can use stick-on light clips to make this easier.
- Add the stakes that are included in the packaging to your Enbrighten Landscape Lights and add them up and down your sidewalk and on your steps as well.
- Run an extension cord to your creation and plug it in! You can then use your remotes to create all of those gorgeous color combinations!
Snowman Door Decoration Instructions
- To make the snowman add white paper to your door with tape. Also, using the wide butcher paper really helps cut down on the multiple layers, so make sure you buy a width large enough for your door. If your door is already white, you can skip this step!
- From the black and orange craft paper, cut and tape on a paper nose, eyes, and buttons. I just used scissors to cut these from paper. After all, the eyes and buttons are supposed to be coal, and that is not perfect. Plus, have you ever seen a perfect carrot?
- Grab a festive scarf and attach it with some command hooks. Then draw on a mouth with a large magic marker.
- Add some paper snowflakes on fishing line to complete the look if desired. You can cut these by hand or with a craft cutting machine. If you want a short cut, grab these from a craft store.
- Now your door decoration is ready to enjoy!
