The Christmas season is the perfect time to hone your crafting and/or decorating skills. When it comes to decorations, the Christmas holiday will give you more flexibility with your decorations than Easter, Valentine's Day, and Halloween combined.

Using a theme for your Christmas decorations can help keep your house from getting cluttered with decorations. Pick a certain theme for the house (or even each room of the home if you are feeling inventive) and decorate your home (or room) around that one central theme. This can help you to keep your focus, and sometimes it can even help to keep the costs of Christmas decorations down.

A popular theme for decorating your home for Christmas is Evergreen. Pine trees, pine boughs, and garlands made from pine boughs are all extremely popular forms of decorating for the Christmas season. Garlands are fairly inexpensive; they can be purchased from your local florist, a grocery store, or even made by yourself at home! Many people may also use miniature versions of the classic Christmas tree to decorate their homes, and Christmas trees PERIOD are an excellent addition to your evergreen Christmas theme. You can buy small, artificial Christmas trees at just about any store , and they are easily decorated. In a child's room, decorate the tree in toy cars, crayons, Christmas lights, and other things that relate to children. This is also a great way to enhance the theme of the child's room.

Snowflakes are also a popular theme for Christmas decorations. Even for people who don't celebrate Christmas, the snowflake theme is an excellent way to decorate for the holiday season. If you have children in the home, you can have them cut out tin foil stars or icicles to keep them out of your hair while you wrap Christmas gifts or perform any other Christmas task that is necessary. Of course, white and silver would be the main colors of your snow theme. Fake, spray-on snow (also called spackle) must be used with care in this situation. Spackle can be a very tricky (or tacky) substance, and it must be used sparingly.

Snowmen, Santa Claus are very important and often seen themes during the Christmas season. These items can be purchased at very good prices from a local five and dime or dollar store, or they are easily made at home. To enhance a Snowman theme, three different sized Styrofoam balls may be used to create your own DIY snow man, or you can use construction paper for a simpler effect.

The same goes with Santa Claus. Why not have a Santa Claus face on the door greet your Christmas party guests at the door? Be careful not to over do it with the Santa Claus theme. Different types and sizes of Santa Claus figures and dolls, of different nationalities and colors even, at stores. Try Wal-Mart, or a local 99 cent store. Specialty Christmas stores may also have the things you need to complete your Christmas theme.