Nature ornaments trees with pinecones during winter season. And their design is no doubt a masterpiece that you can use in different ways to decorate your home and get it fall ready. Making crafts can let you savor the true joys of the coming fall season. So, here are different ideas to create decorations with pinecones:
1. Fill a Wicker Basket with Pinecones and String Lights
Usually due to our busy schedules we get to decorate according to themes at the last minute. So, this idea that requires no effort is great.
2. Dress Up The Pinecones with Felt into Elves
If you love making Christmas decorations long before the actual day then these felt pinecone elves are worth giving a shot to. Just cut and sew the hats, scarves, shoes and mittens with felt and hot glue them to the pinecones topped with wood beads.
3. Spray Pinecones with Paint to Create Flowers
Since we are focusing on crafts that are quick and require less effort so here is another amazing idea. Grab one or more cans of spray paint and spray the pinecones in colors of your choice. Then hot glue them to wooden skewers and use the flowers to fill a vase.
4. Bleach the Pinecones for a Wintery White Look
If you have a soul of a scientist inside you that gets satisfied with experimenting every now and then, then here is an idea for you. You can immerse pinecones in bleach solution and see the wonder happening. White pinecones look perfectly wintery and you can even dust glitter over them.
5. Make Pinecone Fire Starter Favors
Next time when you throw a party in fall then for party favors go for something out of the box. You can make fire starters with pinecones using wax and gift them to your guests as favors to take along them.
6. Make a Birdfeeder with Peanut Butter and Bird Seeds
Whenever birds visit our garden we feel happy and excited right? Imagine assorted birds frequenting your garden all day long if you have a birdfeeder hung outside. It will surely be fun. You can make a feeder pretty quickly by coating pinecones in peanut butter followed by bird seeds.
7. Craft Pomander Balls
If you want to make a hanging decoration for coming fall then try a kissing ball. Famous as a wedding decor option, it is equally amazing for home decor too. All you have to do is to hot glue small pinecones to a styrofoam ball and embellish it with ribbons, greenery and faux berries.
8. Pinecones Can Make Stunning Pineapples
Some yellow paint and green scrapbook paper is all you need to make these epic pineapples that won’t go bad for years.
9. Make a Miniature Christmas Tree
After spray painting a pinecone in green, glue sequins buttons and tiny jingle bells to it and perch over a blanket of cotton to create a tree. Or an easier version is to simply glue pom poms to a pinecone.
10. When In Doubt Throw Some Glitter
In the DIY world glitter fixes pretty much everything. So, if you want to make a craft that requires almost no effort then simply coat pinecones in glue with a brush and dust a generous amount of glitter on top.
