A-Craft-A-Day Pinecone crafts and ideas

Pine Cones

I have used regular bleach and soaked the cones. If your cones are closed, they open up very nice, and have a wonderful "bleached" look, and the decorating ideas are almost endless!!
Thanks Jane!

Put the pinecones in the oven first to kill any little critters that may have taken up residence in them. This way you gift will not also include any unwelcome guests.
Thanks Maria!

I will be dipping some pinecones in Cinnamon Potpourri and also spray painting some gold
and making angels out of them
Thanks Dana !

~Make barrettes out of pinecones and acorns and such. Glue (supper glue..hot glue will not hold well:o) about 3 pinecones along the barrette (use those metal ones with the tension (sp?) rod in them. Use the gold ones:o), then glue acorns and smaller pinecones to fill up any bare spots. Take it outside and spray paint the whole thing gold. It's real pretty during the holidays

~Make a topiary Take a Styrofoam ball, stick a stick in it (not too straight, but sturdy...it's the trunk...you "can" soak some twigs in water for a few days and then wrap them around each other to make a larger trunk..but you have to let it dry out completely..I'm too impatient for all that:o). Cover the ball with moss, glue pinecones and acorns all around it (I have seen ones like this done with all acorns..it's cute:o) Get a cup of some kind...a pot (for plants) or a tea cup, etc. Cut up a piece of
Styrofoam, and jam it in there. Stick your "trunk" into it. It should stand up on it's own..if not, try shortening the trunk or finding a larger "pot". Cover the Styrofoam in the pot with more moss.

~Do you have kids around? When I was a kid in girl scouts we made animals out of pinecones, pine needles, acorns, sticks (the project had to be ALL natural). I made a horse. a long large pinecone for the body..sticks for the legs, pineneedles for a tail , a shorter thin pinecone for the neck, and even shorter thin pinecone for the head, pine needles for the main. But you can do many things. Make a snowman from the pinecones with stick arms , etc.

~Fire starters. There are many ways to do this. here's how I have done it. Take a muffin tin. lay a wick in each muffin hole (1/2 of the wick needs to be left out of the hole) put a pinecone ontop. Melt (with a double broiler method) some paraffin wax. I added essential oil for smell (candle scents, and even plain vanilla extract will work if you want a smell!) and crayon bits for color. Then poor some in each tin..over the pinecone and wick. Let dry. I put these all into a basket and added a box of fire place matches, and put a bow around it. Makes a cute gift..and a useful decoration...if you have a fireplace

~We all know you can roll a pine cone in peanut butter then bird seed for a bird feeder

~Make a country Christmas garland! Take a large, sharp needle and string them on some household twine! If you have a drill...take 'em outside and drill holes in them first(makes it WAY easier. LOL). If you want to put it outside (we live in the south..where the birds actually GO during the
winter:o) roll it in peanut butter and bird seed. My kids love to look at the birds

~Roll pinecones in glue then roll them in glitter. Place a bunch in a bowl for Christmas.
Thanks Teri!

Don't forget the pine cones for the fireplace dripped with scented candle wax.
Thanks Cindy!

Glue a bead on top for a head, use green leaves (from silk flowers) as wings and Spanish moss as hair. Add a halo made from a small pearl strand and viola, an angel! If the twigs are sturdy and strong enough, you could tie them together, or glue and make little sleds to hang on a Christmas tree. Decorate with ribbon and dried flowers.
Thanks Shirley B.!

Try making a wreath out of them. Get a wreath shaped form - colored if possible, and attach different colored fall leaves to it. Silk ones would do nicely. Then space your pinecones around it, interspersing with more leaves, the acorns...arranged in little groups maybe, and some twigs poking in and out in all the stuff. Make a bunch of the twigs at the bottom of the wreath, tie a ribbon or bow around them and let the ends hang for a nice effect.
Thanks Ari!

Mini-tree: Dip pine cones in melted, colored (crayon bits or wax dye) paraffin wax. Use kitchen tongs to dip. Melt wax in coffee can placed in 5" of water in saucepan. Place wooden star on top of cone and glass beads on scales while wax is still warm. When cool, place tree in small container filled with moss.
I think these would look adorable in the little terra cotta pots ... what do you all think?
Thanks Tammy!

I've seen the pinecones dipped in colored scented candle was and arranged in a basket. Very pretty and smelled wonderful. You can even add some glitter to them.
Thanks Paula!

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My mother in law puts pinecones in a basket-intertwined with a small string of Christmas lights, sprinkles on some liquid potpourri,tops basket with a pretty bow. Everytime the lights heat up the potpourri scents the room..Makes a neat gift.
Thanks Glynda!

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