• Create an outdoor Christmas lighting display to make your home stand out.christmas lights image by Tonda from Fotolia.com
  
  During the holiday season, people often enjoy decorating with outside Christmas lights. Rather than putting out random decorations, take time to organize your Christmas lights into a display you can be proud of. Use as much, or as little, of your yard as you need to make your display look interesting. Whether you fill your yard with lights, or limit your lighting to specific areas, outside Christmas lighting ideas can help enhance your holiday season.
  
  

Santa Claus Theme

• Santa Claus can make a good building block for an outdoor Christmas lighting theme. Fill your yard with light-up Santa statues, or set your yard up to look like Santa's workshop. Place a Santa in the middle of the yard. Set elf light-up statues on a picnic table so they look like they are working on toys. Use blow-up yard decorations of gifts and candy canes to remind people of what Santa brings to good children on Christmas morning. Add a light-up Santa and his sleigh to your roof.
  
  

Light Trees

• Use outside Christmas lights to create light trees. Place a pole securely in the ground. Run strands of lights from the top of the pole to the ground. Have the strands come down at an angle, and when you have enough lights on the pole, it will look like a tree. Add a star to the top of the pole.
  
  

LED Icicles

• While standard white icicle lights can make a house look festive, programmable LED icicle lights can give your outside lighting display a dynamic edge. Program your LED icicle lights to change colors, or have them chase in a slow downward pattern that makes them look like they are melting. Set the lights up so they chase back and forth, or have them change colors in patterns.
  
  

Projection Lights

• Decorate your whole yard. Use inexpensive projectors to project a Christmas image on the outside of your home. Use projection lights on the three sides of your home that are not facing the front yard. Decorate your front yard with regular outside Christmas lights.