Light Up Your Rooftop This Christmas

There are many options for rooftop decorating and crafts to show off Christmas Spirit. Sometimes it's hard to choose an idea, or even to choose where to start. Something simple or something extreme, or just everything? The hardest part is picking a theme, and how many ideas you can find to go with that theme. This is only a few decorating ideas that will match up with most traditional Holiday themes. Maybe you can find one that best works for you, or get you started on making your own design.

Snowflakes
These snowflakes will look best hanging off the side of your roof, dangling from the gutters. To make some simple snowflakes, you can different sized cardboard. Just draw then cut out a snowflake pattern on each piece of cardboard you use. Use silver or white glitter to make it shine and glisten from your lights. Do as many as you desire, then hang them with fishing line, this will make them appear as if they are floating down from your roof.

Lights
Most popular of all the houses are the Christmas lights. With several styles to choose from, it's difficult to pick just one. A good choice is to have the trim of your roof lined in one color and then stripes going diagonal or straight in multicolor. This gives it a unique look while still looking it's best. Using a staple gun to keep each strand in place seems to be the easiest way to apply lights to a roof. Just be sure to use caution and safety methods, especially with a ladder and working in the snow.

Fake Chimney
Don't have a chimney? You can always make one using a cardboard box. Take a large box and remove one end's flaps and tape the other end closed. Next paint the box to look like it's made of red bricks, the brick design and the color. You can then staple the closed end right to your roof to hold it in place. You can even take a pair of Santa pants and boots, sew them together (or tape, glue, staples, pins) and stuff the pants full of cotton filling. You can hang these over the edge or sticking out of the box so it looks like Santa Claus is really climbing down!

Designer Lights
This can be bought premade, or you can take a strand of regular outdoor lights and create your own designs. A few ideas, you can use white lights and make a snowflake, or colored lights that you can shape into presents. Some holly, poinsettia, Season's Greetings, a message. There are many possibilities with strands of lights. And if it's easier, purchasing the premade lights are always an option. They have sets that lay flat on your roof, which is great for a nice slopped rooftop. Or even some that stand up with ease, with a lot of different designs to choose from. Picking a theme is probably the most difficult part.

Christmas Presents
A unique idea is to have gifts scattered on your rooftop, and an empty red bag hanging off the roof upside down. This will make it look like Santa was flying by your roof and he dropped his bag full of toys. You can even have a few gifts laying on the ground under the bag, so it looks like it spilled out there also. To make these gifts you will need empty boxes of all sizes, wrapping paper and possibly ribbon and bows. Make each box look like a different gift, you can even add name tags for family members. Scatter these on your roof, stapling them down somehow. This can be done if you leave one side of the box with a hole in it, the side that no one will see, so you can place your hand inside to staple it to the roof. And from the inside of the bag, staple it so that it is dangling of the roof, making it appear it has snagged on something. Then a few empty gifts on the ground below. These can be staked to the ground to prevent them from moving, if needed. Just place the stake inside the bottom of the box and then straight into the ground.