What decor items can be made from cones

You have a bag of ordinary pine cones in your house, but you have no idea which one to make. Next, you will learn how to make an original New Year's decor from this natural material. Connect your imagination and be inspired by handicrafts.

Christmas wreath

Use pine cones to create a classic Christmas wreath to decorate your front doors or walls. When making it, stick to the following plan:

1. First, prepare the base for your decoration. Cut a ring out of thick cardboard, the size of which will depend on your preference.
2. Give it volume. To do this, fold up plain paper and glue the future wreath with it with adhesive tape.
3. In addition to the cardboard, the base of the decoration can be made of birch branches that bend well, and connect them together with a dense thread or twine.
4. Glue the base with dry pine cones. Use hot glue for quick and easy attachment to the base. Make sure that there are almost no gaps on the ring. Attach a ribbon so that the holiday decoration can be hung.
5. Decorate the wreath with different decorative elements. These can be dried citruses, nuts, beads, or decorative berries.

Christmas tree decorations

Pine cones are an excellent basis for creating original Christmas tree toys. Do not be afraid to fantasize and be sure to involve children in this process. You can make several options for Christmas tree decorations:

1. Paint the buds you have cleaned up with gold, silver, or white paint. Glue a small bow and ribbon to the top so that the decoration can be hung on the tree.
2. Cut out the eyes and beak from thick paper. Make a hat from a small piece of fabric, glue a pompom to it. Attach the details to the bump to make it look like a little owl. In the same way, you can make a snowman, Santa Claus or a penguin.
3. Paint each cone scale with white paint, and glue red beads on top of them. Such a simple and laconic decoration will look not only original, but also very impressive on the New Year tree.

Christmas garland

This natural material makes a luxurious natural garland that can be used to decorate a Christmas tree or walls in the house. To make it, follow these tips:

1. Attach pine cones to a medium-sized string or wire. To do this, gently wrap them around the flakes or use hot glue. Maintain a distance of 1 to 2 cm between the buds.
2. Hide the joints with various decorative ribbons or beads.
3. Decorate the garland with dried orange wedges, decorative berries, or small Christmas tree decorations.

Basket

A basket of natural cones will perfectly fit into a festive interior. You can store sweets, fruits or put a small New Year's gift in it. The process of making a basket looks like this:

1. Wrap the cones with wire alternately until you get the desired length of diameter.
2. Make several rings and glue them together with hot glue. Please note that all cones should be approximately the same size, then the basket will turn out to be even.
3. The bottom can be made of thick cardboard, as well as with cones. It should be the same size as the bottom ring of the basket.
4. Attach the cones to the curved wire in an arc shape and glue the handle to the base of the basket. If you wish, you can decorate the product with decor.

Candlestick

What kind of New Year's interior is complete without a candlestick. Make it from pine cones using the following plan:

1. Cut out the base for the candlestick in the form of a circle from thick cardboard. Its size depends on your preference.
2. Place a candle in the center of the base.
3. Glue the cones to the cardboard, starting from the candle. Double-sided tape or hot glue will help you with this.
4. Decorate gaps and empty spaces with decorative mountain ash, spruce twigs, beads, or dried orange slices. The buds themselves can be covered a little with white paint to create a snowy effect.

Snowflake

Pine cones can also make stylish and unusual snowflakes. Their manufacturing process will become easy and fast. It looks like this:

1. Prepare some popsicle sticks or sushi sets as a base for the snowflake. Connect them together with hot glue or fix them with wire so that you get a snowflake.
2. Glue the base with cones, which should completely cover the sticks.
3. Cover the snowflake with white, gold, or silver paint.
4. Attach a ribbon to the top to hang the decoration.

Topiary

This unusual piece of jewelry is suitable both as a room decor and as a gift. To make a tree, follow these steps in stages:

1. Prepare the barrel of the desired length. It can be made from the most common tree stick found on the street. Clean it from dirt, dry it and decorate with a ribbon if desired.
2. Insert the stick into the flower pot and secure with plaster, putty, polyurethane foam or floral foam. It should fit snugly and stably in the planter.
3. Use hot glue to attach a Styrofoam ball, available from a craft store, to the top of the table.
4. Cover it with pine cones so that they completely cover the surface.
5. Decorate the crown with decorative elements.
6. Cover the joint between the trunk and the foam in the pot with faux moss, decorative paper, or pine cones.
7. Paint the crown of the tree with white, silver, or gold paint if desired.

Making these original crafts will help you cheer up the holiday mood and have fun with your kids. The most ordinary cones will turn into spectacular and festive decorations that will definitely not go unnoticed.