Crafts made from pine cones for the New Year are one of the most original ways to decorate your home for the holidays. Don't know what decorations you can make? You can make a ball, wreath, star and more by reading this article.

How to prepare natural material for work?

It is better to collect raw materials for toys in a coniferous forest; they will have a more pronounced smell. But if this is not possible, you can go to the nearest park.

Before you start selecting a natural material, you need to understand what kind of jewelry will be made from it. Based on this, it will become clear what size cones will be needed this time.

Homemade accessories and jewelry have become very popular recently, and 2018 will also be no exception. Along with toys in the shape of a Yellow Dog, you can hang homemade owls, snowmen or deer from pine cones on the Christmas tree. You can start collecting them in the fall, this will give you the opportunity to pick up a few more natural materials that will be needed to decorate your crafts.

It is very difficult for a person who has never made crafts from pine cones to understand what exactly can be made from them and how to properly prepare the natural material. After all, they are one of the most convenient and at the same time original objects for realizing your creative ideas.

Cones are one of the original objects for realizing creative ideas.

Sometimes their shape is already suitable for the craft, after which it only needs to be slightly modified. But sometimes deformation may be necessary.

Here you need to take into account several rules, namely:

• If there is a need for the cone not to open for a long time, it can be soaked in wood glue for 30 seconds. If, on the contrary, you need to provoke a speedy opening, you can place it in the oven for 2 hours. This will not only bring the desired result, but also disinfect the material.
• Before preparing crafts, it is worth considering the interior of the room. Usually they fit into any decor, but it may make sense to choose a paint that matches the room.
• In order to carry out any manipulations with deformation of the material without any problems, it can be soaked in ordinary water for 1 hour. Afterwards, you need to hang it by a thread and dry it well.
• If the raw materials for crafts have a very dark color, it can be lightened with standard bleach with a ratio of 1 to 1. Next, it should be rinsed very well with water, then allowed to dry.

What kind of decorations can you make?

This natural material can make the most spectacular decorations that will decorate your home for the New Year and give it comfort.

They make excellent Christmas tree toys and individual elements. These could be balls, wreaths for the front door, candlesticks, small Christmas trees, vases or garlands.

Each of the crafts is additional materials, so in the fall it’s worth taking care of this variety and collecting as many items as possible. Next, we will consider the most popular products that will bring maximum New Year's atmosphere and joy to your home.

New Year's ball

We are not talking about a decoration for the New Year's tree, but about a ball that can be hung separately, since they are not small in size.

To get a New Year's ball, the following components will be useful:

• Balloon.
• Water.
• Toilet paper.
• Glue (PVA is possible).
• Pine cones.
• Paints.
• Ribbons of different colors.

The first thing you need to do is prepare the ball

The first thing you need to do is prepare the ball. Here you can use a regular balloon, which is inflated to the desired size based on the idea. Next, you need to take toilet paper, previously soaked in a solution of PVA glue and water with a ratio of 1 to 2. With its help, the ball is carefully wrapped and left to dry. This usually takes 1 day.

Now you can start painting the New Year's ball, the color can be any, it all depends on the creative idea. This will also make the gaps between the glued natural raw materials invisible. Next, the craft dries again.

The next step is the most interesting and long-awaited - gluing natural materials. You should be careful here, as at this stage many people puncture or push through the ball. Usually the cones are placed as close to each other as possible, this will create a lush effect.

Let's start decorating. It can be completely different, you can decorate the cones, hang berries, a garland, ribbon bells or rain on them.

Wreath

The New Year's wreath is one of the most colorful attributes of the Christmas holidays. It is placed both on the door and on the wall in the apartment, it all depends on the interior or the author’s idea. Even one wreath can provide your home with festive energy and magic.

To make such a craft, you don’t need to spend a lot of time and money, but the result will be impressive. To create a high-quality and beautiful New Year's wreath, you will need the following materials:

• spruce cones and branches;
• newspaper;
• scissors;
• glue gun;
• stapler;
• paint (preferably brown);
• decorations at your discretion;
• scotch.

Procedure

First you need to take care of preparing the base. To do this, you can use cardboard; it is rolled into a tube and fastened at the edges, forming a ring. If you happen to have a similar item at home that is more durable, it is better to use it. To finish the base and make it more durable, the newspaper is wrapped with tape until the ring becomes strong.

Now you can start painting the workpiece. For this, spray paint is usually used; if it is not available, it is not at all prohibited to use another method. After the ring has completely dried, the gluing process begins.

If desired, the resulting craft is coated with varnish and taken out to dry in an open space.

For decoration, you can use any objects, including natural ones. These can be bows, spruce branches, bells, Christmas tree decorations, ribbons. You can place figures of Father Frost and Snow Maiden in the center of the circle.

New Year's star

The star has always been and remains a symbol of the New Year. Since the times of the Soviet Union, it has been decorating the top of the New Year tree. But recently people have begun to use other holiday symbols for this, and the star serves as a decoration for the table or room as a whole.

To make such a decoration from natural material, you will need the following components:

• Cones of small, medium and large sizes.
• Ribbons of different colors.
• Rigid wire or smooth thin metal rods.

The first thing you need to do during the work is to prepare the frame. For this, wire or rods are used. They need to be fastened in such a way that they form a six-pointed star.

When everything is ready, the previously prepared cones are put on the craft, the large ones are planted first, and closer to the ends they become smaller. Although this order can be changed, everything will depend on the idea of ​​the author of the composition. To hang the finished craft, you can bend the top of the wire and tie a ribbon to it.

Animals for the Christmas tree

Such crafts can diversify the decorations of the New Year tree and make it more original. They are quite simple to make, but will last for years if you follow all the rules of safe storage. Owls, deer or squirrels turn out especially beautiful.

To make such animals, you will need the following:

• small old soft toys;
• glue;
• cones of different sizes;
• nylon thread;
• paint that matches the color of the animal.

First you need to take the prepared natural material and paint it in the required color. Next, you need to give it time to dry thoroughly. Now you can start gluing the animal body parts. To do this, you need to take old toys and cut off the necessary parts.

Usually the head is glued first, and then everything else. When everything is ready, you need to take a strong thread and make a pendant for the New Year tree.

To make a beautiful craft, you don’t have to make any cartoon characters; a toy in the shape of a pine cone itself is already a beautiful New Year’s accessory for decoration.

Gnomes or owls

One of the most original crafts will be gnomes or owls. To do this, you need to prepare colored felt and make caps for the heads of gnomes, mittens and beards from it. If these are owls, you need to make small beaks, wings and eyes.

It is very important to choose a good glue, otherwise the whole composition may fall apart. These crafts are a good decoration not only for the Christmas tree, but also for the table or other parts of the room; they can be placed simply on a shelf or hung from the ceiling.

New Year's candlestick

In the world, probably, only babies do not know what cones are. This natural material not only serves as decoration for trees, but is also the source for many Hand-Made crafts. With just a little time, you can make colorful products from pine cones at home and transform your interior with designer crafts. And also make collective compositions from spruce, cedar, and pine cones, involving the whole family in the work. By devoting just a little time to creativity, you will plunge into the magical world of a fairy tale. If you have a rich imagination, then it will not be difficult for you to make any craft. In the meantime, we have selected the most popular compositions.

What can be made from cones

Cones can not only be combined with interior items, but also create stand-alone decorations. You can also always make funny little animals, and the process of creating products will intrigue not only a child, but also an adult.

Using cones you can create:

1. Decorative compositions that will not only add comfort and a New Year’s atmosphere, but also refresh the interior. Such crafts include: a wreath on the door, ikebana, topiary, candlestick.
2. New Year's products. Here the designer’s imagination can turn in all directions, because you can start with a small composition or even make a tree from pine cones.
3. Animal figures. A bear cub, a hedgehog, a squirrel, a goblin, penguins, a snowy owl - a set of such heroes will not leave any child indifferent. And the manufacturing process will give you a lot of pleasure and reward you with a charge of good mood for the whole day.

Processing buds

Before you start making crafts from cones, you should carefully process the cones:

1. Contaminated material should be washed and dried naturally.
2. Clean less contaminated material with a brush.
3. Unripe and unopened buds should be placed in a low-heat oven with the door ajar. You will notice that moisture will evaporate from wet cones, and unopened ones will gradually open in the form of spruce branches.

If, as planned, you want closed cones, then in order to prevent the petals from opening, you need to soak them in wood glue for 30 seconds. To transform, soak the cones in water, and then tie them with thread, giving them the desired shape. Materials for crafts can be left in their natural form or covered with artificial snow, varnish, and paint. Everything will depend on the intended craft.

Christmas tree made of pine cones

One of the most popular crafts on the eve of the holidays is a Christmas tree. It's quite easy to do. Let's consider 2 options.

For work we will need:

• cones;
• cardboard;
• glue;
• pine branches or tinsel.

Step-by-step instructions for making a Christmas tree:

1. Make a cone-shaped base out of cardboard.
2. Attach the cones to the cone with glue at intervals.
3. Attach pine branches or tinsel between the cones.
4. The Christmas tree is ready. All that remains is to decorate the New Year's beauty.

Materials for making a Christmas tree craft from pine cones:

• cones;
• cardboard;
• stand;
• newspaper or paper;
• Super glue.

Step-by-step instruction:

1. Use cardboard to make a base for our Christmas tree in the shape of a cone.
2. For good stability of the structure, insert newspaper or paper inside the structure.
3. Cut a circle out of cardboard or use a wooden stand and attach a cone to it.
4. Glue the cones to the cone from top to bottom. To avoid large gaps, turn the cones of each subsequent row in the opposite direction.
5. If you have glued all the cones, then the main part of the craft is finished.

Pine cone decorations

Increasingly, in homes you can find decorations from pine cones, made with your own hands for the New Year or Christmas holidays. These are mainly pine or spruce garlands, or trees in pots.

When working with cones, it is very important to note their advantages:

• natural material without chemical impurities;
• pleasant pine smell;
• saving money by making decorations from pine cones.

If you wish, you can make almost any toy out of cones; you just need to use a little imagination and sometimes patience. Making Christmas tree ornaments is a great craft idea. After all, you not only make these decorations with your children, but also then dress up the New Year’s beauty or decorate interior items with the products. From the most basic crafts, you can make a gnome.

Step-by-step instructions for making a gnome:

1. Leave the bump unchanged and use it as the basis for the gnome's body.
2. Take a chestnut as the base of your head. Then glue on the beard.
3. The legs and arms are made of fabric and stuffed with padding polyester or cotton wool.
4. Clothes are made from felt.
5. For girls' gnomes, they should braid their hair using threads.

Elongated cones can serve as decorations in the house or become a wonderful Christmas tree decoration. To make exclusive curtain tiebacks, take velvet fabric and secure a pine cone at the ends.

Another wonderful decoration of our decor can be a New Year's colored garland of cones. Creating this craft will not take you much time.

For the garland you will need:

• cones (the quantity depends on the length of the garland);
• glue;
• rope;
• spray paint (you can use any paint);
• sparkles.

Step-by-step instruction:

1. Prepare your buds for painting by cleaning them first.
2. Spray paint on the pine cones.
3. Then sprinkle the pine cones with glitter. Wait a bit until the material dries.
4. Take a rope and make marks on it where you will place the cones.
5. Leave 10 cm of rope to tie the garland.
6. Apply a drop of glue to the base of the pine cone and glue it to the rope. Hold the bud firmly for 5 seconds for a strong grip.
7. Do the same with the rest of the pine cones.
8. The garland is ready.

Also, as a New Year's decoration at home, a craft in the form of a snowflake made from pine cones, made with your own hands, will look very elegant.

To make snowflakes, it is better to use spruce or long pine cones.

Take 6 cones and glue the bottom sides together. The center of our craft can be decorated with a small paper snowflake or lace. Within 5 minutes our snowflake is ready.

New Year's wreath of pine cones

Preparing your home for the holiday begins at the door. The autumn door frame gives way to winter motifs and takes you into a winter fairy tale. Making a New Year's wreath is not at all difficult.

First, you should cut out the base of the wreath in the form of a circle from plastic, cardboard, flexible branches or wire. Glue small rings onto the cones, pre-select the decor for the cones or leave them in their original form. By stringing, put the cones on the wire. At the end of the work, twist the edges of the wire and decorate with a large bow.

Newspapers can also be used as the basis for a holiday wreath. Wind them into a ring and secure with threads in a circle. If you have organza or other material at home, wrap it around the resulting frame. To imitate spruce branches, use green or light green rain. Glue the pine cones to the rain and add plastic fruit to the arrangement.

You can buy a ready-made base for a wreath in stores. Decorate it with acorns, nuts, cones and create your own individual design. You can decorate with any available materials: paint, glitter, ribbons, beads, seed beads.

How to make a beautiful ball of pine cones

You can diversify the decor of your interior by making an unusual ball of pine cones and acorns. It is quite difficult to do, but if you follow our instructions, you will cope with the task.

For the base of the ball, make a circle of paper, crumpling it as if making a snowball. Another base option could be a garbage bag. You can make a ball shape by filling the bag with cotton wool, padding polyester or newspaper. The opening of the bag should be closed or sealed. The base for the craft is ready.

We proceed to the main composition and glue the cones, evenly distributing them around the perimeter. After the product has naturally dried, the composition is ready.

The final stage is to cover the ball with varnish or snow. The finished product can be placed in a pot or vase, or simply attached to the ceiling with a thread.

Topiary made of pine cones

A good idea for creating an unusual interior is topiary trees. Sometimes they are called trees of happiness and good luck.

To implement the idea you will need:

• cones;
• plaster or sponge;
• clay or plastic pot;
• tree branch;
• a ball of newspaper or a flower sponge;
• threads;
• spray paint.

Step-by-step instruction:

1. Form a ball out of newspaper and wrap it with thread.
2. Apply glue to the base of the cone and glue it onto the ball as tightly as possible.
3. Glue the remaining pine cones onto the ball. Try to choose buds of a similar size.
4. Point the end of a pine branch and make a hole in the bottom of the ball.
5. Secure the branch in the ball with glue.
6. Paint the resulting ball with paint. The ball is decorated with dried leaves, branches, beads, and colored ribbons.
7. Prepare the plaster for work: spread it in a pot, making an indent of 3-5 cm from the edge.
8. Insert the branch with the ball into the plaster solution and fix until dry.
9. Disguise the plaster with small pine cones or moss.

Making a candlestick from pine cones

A lit candle in a beautiful candlestick is responsible for adding romance and creating a New Year's composition at the festive table. The glow of festive lights will not only add coziness, but also diversify the interior. Even a child can make this accessory with his own hands. The main decorative material is cones, and other materials are selected depending on availability.

To create a holiday candle you will need:

• cones, acorns, chestnuts;
• glue;
• cardboard circle;
• aerosol paint.

Place all decorative elements on a substrate and paint. Painting should be done with open windows or outside. Glue a candle and prepared decorations to the center of the cardboard circle. A coniferous tree branch will look original in the composition.

Another option for creating a candle is to decorate ready-made candlesticks with pine cones and twigs. Unusual candles are made from glass jars. To do this, pour sugar or artificial snow into the bottom of the jar. Decorate the top with lace and attach a few cones. Treat the composition with an aerosol containing snow.

How to make a basket of pine cones

To make an unusual basket of pine cones, use our tips.

Materials for creating a basket of pine cones:

• cones;
• wire, fishing line;
• glue;
• cardboard.

You need to start tying the bottom from the central cone, and so connect 8-16 in a circle, wrapping it with wire or fishing line.

For the second row of pine cones, make a circle of smaller diameter. For a tall basket, make 3 circles.

Connect 2 circles of cones together using glue and wire. Make the handle of the basket from wire and decorate it with pine cones. Weave the handle one at a time, turning the cones over.

Animals made from pine cones

Engaging in artistic creativity is equally beneficial for both adults and children. Each work uses the principle of combination and play of contrasts. After all, differences in color, shape and size dictate their own rules in crafts.

Teddy bear made of pine cones

Materials:

• fir cone;
• 4 half-opened pine cones;
• a large open pine cone with a round top;
• acorn caps;
• alder cones;
• awl;
• glue;
• scissors.

Step-by-step instruction:

1. An oblong pine cone is the body of a bear cub.
2. Apply glue to the parts of the scales to be joined.
3. Connect the parts of the product so that the scales of one cone secure the scales of another.
4. Make paws from pine cones.
5. Make the back legs of the bear cub from larger pine cones compared to the front ones.
6. The head of the piece will be an open pine cone.
7. Make ears and a nose from the caps of acorns and attach tightly with glue.
8. Use black pepper to make eyes and the tip of the nose.

If you have a bag of pine cones in your house, then creating a big bear is right for you. The size of the toy is selected according to the number of cones.

Make a bear frame from papier-mâché or polyurethane foam. Stuff the frame with paper and place heavier material at the legs for stability. Make the top layer of cones and secure with glue. Make ears and muzzle out of pompoms.

Hedgehog made of cones

You can also make a beautiful hedgehog from pine cones by adding plasticine.

For the hedgehog you will need:

• cones;
• plasticine of several colors.

In order to make a hedgehog, all actions are performed one by one according to the instructions:

1. Take plasticine and mold an elongated muzzle.
2. Attach it to the base of the pine cone.
3. Make a nose, eyes, and paws from a different color of plasticine.
4. Fix them on the craft.
5. Additionally, make ears out of plasticine and attach them.
6. The craft is ready.

Nature has always inspired people to be creative, because everything in it is subordinated to it. With a little imagination, you can create not only toys, but entire mini-cities from natural materials. And the creation process will unite the family and allow everyone to show their design abilities.

78 photos of ideas for crafts made from pine cones

Good afternoon, today I want to show you what interesting crafts you can make from pine cones for the New Year. Cones are free natural material that can be used to create original Christmas tree decorations. You can decorate the New Year's table setting with cones. New Year's pine cones painted with paints can become part of the festive composition in home decor for the New Year. Many crafts are suitable for children. And also ideas for adult design made from pine cones. Let's see what New Year's crafts you can create with your own hands using cones (pine and spruce).

Craft toys

from cones with your own hands.

For those who know how to knit (crochet or knit) or sew from felt, it will not be difficult to create such winter men on skis or on a sled. We make the body of the men from an open pine cone. The head is made from a ping pong ball or a small foam ball, tinted in beige gouache. We make skis from ice cream sticks, ski poles from simple toothpicks, and handles from fluffy wire. Children's New Year's creativity made from natural materials is a good idea for practicing at home or during labor and arts lessons at school.

Using the same principle, you can put snowmen or penguins on skis. The snowman's head can be made of a white fur pompom (as in the photo of the New Year's craft below). Or you can make a head out of a foam ball or cotton wool (mix cotton wool with PVA glue and roll it into a round ball, dry it and use it as the head of a craft snowman made from a cone.

But the author’s penguins are small (made from a pine cone) and large (made from a long spruce cone). The penguin's head is made of a white foam ball, which is painted with black gouache. Headphones made of wire wrapped in wool thread and two small fur pom-poms. Black penguin wings-legs are cut out of felt or formiam.

You can make a whole flock of penguins wearing red New Year's caps from pine cones. Penguin wings can be made from black plasticine or pieces of tree bark (as in the photo below). Children will love this DIY craft.

And if we glue big round eyes and a hook nose to a round pine cone, we get an OWL. We make wings from felt, or formiam, or from a piece of leather (leatherette). Owl caps can be glued together from bright paper napkins with a New Year's pattern (this is how our owls made from cones will look festive).

If you buy pieces of felt (it is sold in sheets, like paper, and you can buy small sheets of different colors) - then you can create a whole series of funny New Year's animals based on the pine cone.

Pendant toys made from pine cones

DIY Christmas tree.

And here’s another idea for the New Year, where pendants are made from pine cones to decorate the New Year tree. Here everything is done according to the principle – at the bottom is a bump, at the top is the character’s head. Big-headed cones - DIY crafts available for activities with children.

The simplest thing is to take a foam ball and stick buttons on it for the nose and eyes. The nose can be cut from a thick piece of orange felt. Or the nose can be sculpted from cotton wool soaked in PVA glue; when it hardens, such PVA wool becomes as hard as wood (a convenient material for crafts, especially since any color of gouache can be mixed into the PVA glue and we get not only a durable part, but also what we need for you colors).

With the help of felt or fluffy wire, wings can appear on the pine cone, and then such a craft can be decorated as an angel or fairy.

New Year characters,

made from pine cones.

If you paint a cone with gouache red, you will get the basis for a Santa Claus craft. It is better not to paint the bump with a brush. And immediately dipping the whole thing into a plastic cup of paint. Pour PVA glue into a glass and add red gouache. We dip the entire cone into this coloring mess.

Important! Save your money. Do not buy PVA in small tubes from office supplies. Go to the construction department of the store and buy PVA in a liter bucket (the price will be 4-7 times cheaper).

Crafts made from pine cones look very nice with added red elements - ribbons, beads, felt. These are great ideas for New Year's children's crafts made from pine cones - simple, quick and easy for a child.

You can also make CHRISTMAS crafts from pine cones and other natural and available materials. Lush ribbons and lace patterns can be used as wings for angels. You can crochet openwork angel wings with your own hands if you have ever knitted napkins. You can use pine cones and pieces of felt (or fleece) to make a whole Christmas scene with a newborn baby Jesus in a cradle.

Decorative New Year's cones

With my own hands.

And here are samples of crafts with pine cones decorated for the New Year. As decoration we use sprigs of pine needles from a Christmas tree, green leaves from indoor plants, or torn from a bouquet, small alder cones, pieces of moss, beads, balls, bells, bright ribbons and shiny paper.

Decorated pine cones that have been pre-painted (dipped in a glass of colored PVA glue) look very beautiful and festive. After painting and drying, the cone should be sprayed with hairspray - the color will become brighter and the cone will begin to shine like a glossy one. And you can quickly sprinkle glitter on a bump wet from polish (nail polish is suitable).

You can buy small bird figurines at a craft store. They will look great on top of your New Year's pine cone. Birds can make nests from Christmas tree needles and decorate them with red beads.

You can also decorate the cones themselves with beads from beads, or small pom-pom balls, inserting them between the scales and fixing them with hot glue.

And you can also put the cones together - into a snowflake star. We lay out six snowflakes on the table - butts together - tips apart. And glue them together with hot thermal glue from a gun. Cover the gluing area with a snowflake cut out of cardboard, spruce paws, beads or a small cone (the tip cut off from a large cone).

New Year's crafts

from SCALES of a cone.

Here's an interesting way to make crafts from pine cones for the New Year. If you take it and pull out the scales from the cone. From them you can (like from natural puzzles) assemble any pattern or three-dimensional shape.

For example, cut out a star from cardboard. And we lay out the scales on the glue along the contour of this star, gradually, row by row, getting closer to the middle. This craft will appeal to school-age children - you just need to pull out the scales in advance.

You can simply lay out a flower made from cone scales on a round piece of cardboard. You also need to start from the EDGES of the cardboard circle, and row by row reach the middle of the flower. Glue fabric lace or a paper snowflake to the back side of the flower. We get an elegant openwork craft for the New Year.

You can also decorate a paper cone with scales from the pine cone. This way we will get a Christmas tree craft made from natural cone material (as in the photo below).

Here's another interesting New Year's craft. Take milk cartons (small size). We paint them in white gouache and draw black stripes on top (we imitate the color of birch bark). We cut a round hole in one of the sides of the box. And we glue the top of the milk box (it is shaped like a house-roof) with cone scales using hot thermal glue from a gun. And we get this (photo below) New Year’s craft in the form of bird houses. Very beautiful and unusual.

You can also cover the snowman’s foam belly with scales - put a fur coat of cones on him. A beautiful craft for older children.

Cones on wreaths

and New Year's panels on the wall.

Very interesting decorative panels can be made from pine cones. If you make any shape from slats (for example, a star), then you can paste it over with pine cones - and you will get an original New Year’s craft that can be hung on the wall, leaned against the wall next to the tree. You can wrap this pine cone star in a garland and illuminate it with light bulbs.

Armed with a glue gun, you can assemble an openwork snowflake craft from pine cones. And also use it as a wall panel.

And if you have a small number of cones, you can make a wall panel from another natural material, and use the cones as an additional decoration.

Christmas wreaths can also be made from pine cones. To do this, they can be painted in any color (dipped in glue-pva, tinted with gouache, or covered with spray paint).

We make a wreath based on a wooden or cardboard ring. We attach the cones to the base ring using glue.

New Year's compositions

With cones.

for table decoration.

Also, cones can become part of a New Year's composition decorating your festive table for the New Year. You can simply place the painted cones on the table between dishes and glasses. Or you can hang it from a chandelier using bright ribbons or hang it on the edge of a table (as in the photo below).

You can also make a serving boutonniere from the cones to decorate each guest’s plate.

It looks beautiful if you match the color of the pine cone with the same color of shiny sprinkles. Make the cones sparkle and sparkle like frosty patterns on a winter window.

You yourself can come up with various compositions with cones and other materials. Your imagination and interesting “unnecessary things” found in your desk drawer can become a source of original exclusive DIY crafts made from pine cones.

Candlesticks with cones

With my own hands.

In the same way, you can include candles in your tabletop New Year's composition of pine cones. You can simply place candles in a beautiful dish and arrange pine cones around them, painted in shades close to the color of the candles.

If you are making a craft where all the cones are glued together, then when assembling such a glue cone pile, insert pieces of plastic tubes inside - you can insert candles into these places. When gluing, make sure that the candle stand tubes are glued strictly vertically - otherwise your candles will not stand in straight columns, but at random.

It could be easier. Place a glass on a cardboard circle. And around it on cardboard with glue attach pine cones, pine branches, berries, stars cut from birch bark and orange peel.

That is, any decorative method is suitable for creating a candlestick. Or we place a candle inside a ring made of pine cones and natural material. Or we glue (tie with a ribbon) the natural material to the body of the candle itself. Or we put a candle inside a tall glass and around it we insert pine cones and other tinsel directly into the glass (as in the third photo below).

Christmas trees-crafts

From pine cones.

And also your New Year's compositions from pine cones can be decorated as tall PYRAMID TREES. Such Christmas trees can be made from ordinary cones, or from spray-painted gold ones. And you can decorate them with ribbons, felt flowers, small Christmas balls (also glue them with thermal glue).

These are the ideas I have for the New Year 2018. Let these works inspire you. And let your cones blossom with craft ideas in your skillful hands.

Happy New Year's creativity.

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Happy New Year to the author of this article, Olga Klishevskaya.

The long-standing Russian tradition of making New Year's toys with your own hands almost died out by the end of the 20th century. Still would! There are so many magnificent balls, stars, animals and fairy-tale characters made in factories in stores! How could simple crafts—or a bronze-painted walnut—compete with them?

Today, fortunately, the tradition is returning, because the point is not what to hang on New Year trees, but to engage in exciting creativity with children, to instill in your sons and daughters the skills of handling scissors, glue, and paints. Among the most popular materials from which Christmas tree decorations can be made are ordinary pine and spruce cones.

Choosing cones

Cones are not sold in stores, except in those where you can buy a variety of unexpected materials for creativity. However, this is not particularly necessary. By visiting nature with your children, you can create the necessary supply of cones of any size and shape throughout the year, while at the same time collecting other natural materials that will be useful for your New Year’s workshop: acorns with “caps”, beautifully curved twigs, moss, maple and ash seeds, hazelnuts.

The cones are closed, dense or with “ruffled” scales. In order to make New Year's crafts, you will need both, depending on what you plan to make. However, it can be a shame if the toy begins to open up under the influence of home heat - and your finished crafts become deformed.

To prevent this from happening, the cones must be pre-treated:

• so that the cones always remain closed, they are kept in a jar of wood glue for a minute;
• to open, cook for half an hour, and then dry on a radiator;
• You can open the cones by keeping them in the oven for a couple of hours (temperature 250 degrees);
• You can slightly change the shape of the cone by holding it in water, and then tying it tightly with thread and drying it.

Heat treatment, by the way, will destroy microbes on the cones and make the natural material safe, which is very important when it comes to children's creativity.

Materials, tools

In addition to the cones, you will need:

• paints,
• tassels,
• cardboard,
• scissors,
• threads and ribbons,
• pieces of fabric and felt,
• PVA glue,
• beads,
• sparkles.

Depending on what toys you are going to make and using what technologies, this list may expand. For example, you may need plasticine and papier-mâché, nail polish and wire in beautiful plastic insulation.

Operating procedure

Cones are a very beautiful natural material. To decorate a Christmas tree with them, sometimes it is enough to simply paint each one in any color (red, yellow, purple) and add glitter. According to the experience of those who have been making crafts from cones for a long time and conduct a master class on the Internet, it is better to use enamel for painting cones rather than acrylic paints, which do not lie smoothly enough.

It is convenient to use multi-colored Christmas tree tinsel as glitter, the so-called rain, which must be cut very finely with scissors. The cones are dipped for a couple of seconds into a container of varnish used for woodworking, and then sprinkled with shiny multi-colored pieces of tinsel.

The New Year's toy is almost ready. All that remains is to make a loop so that it can be hung on the tree. For this purpose, self-tapping screws with a ring are used.

Now try to take on more difficult work. Make Santa Claus out of pine cones.

1. step: paint the pine cone red, dry it.
2. step: make a head out of a small ball, covering it with beige fabric.
3. step: build a thick beard from cotton wool and glue it to your head.
4. step: from a piece of red felt or some other dense fabric, make a cap for Santa Claus, in the upper part of it, provide a loop so that the toy can be hung on the Christmas tree.
5. step: draw eyes or glue small black beads or beads as eyes.
6. step: glue the head to the bump body using hot glue (this will make it more secure).

Your Santa Claus is ready. Now, using the same technology, you can make his constant companion - the Snow Maiden.

A separate master class includes making toys using plasticine. This material, however, has one drawback - its fragility, it can become deformed due to too high a temperature in the room or if the craft is carelessly picked up or dropped.

And the advantage of plasticine is that children who have already acquired skills in handling this material can be actively involved in this work.

Try making a hedgehog. The cone will make a body, and plasticine (lighter in color than the cone) will make a muzzle. You will also need to make paws, a traditional apple or a mushroom, which are placed on the hedgehog’s back. Using the same technique (using plasticine) you can make a swan, owl, penguin, squirrel, crocodile, hare - all those that your child wants to make.

An original effect is achieved by bleaching the cones: to achieve this, the cones are kept in ordinary bleach, used for washing and cleaning, for five hours. The ratio of the drug and water is 1:1.

You can get the illusion of a frosty day by covering the cone with silver (not multi-colored) sparkles: coat the cone with glue, roll in the sparkles, dry so that they have time to “grab” with the glue, and then brush off the excess.

Very cute toys, which, by the way, will look very professional, can be made using old broken and unnecessary plastic dolls and various animals. Taking a pine cone as a basis, you can glue a doll’s head, palms, and legs to it. In this way you can make Santa Claus, Snow Maiden, hedgehog, deer, dog, kitten, mouse, and various birds.

You don't have to hang all your crafts on the tree. To make your room truly New Year's, toys can be hung, for example, from a chandelier. By the way, this way you will be able to examine the toy in all its glory, from absolutely all angles.

New Year's holidays are approaching - time to give and receive gifts, decorate the Christmas tree and decorate the house. Perhaps we no longer believe in the good old man Santa Claus, we don’t expect gifts from him under the tree, but we definitely expect a miracle, especially on New Year’s Eve.

A miracle is of course good, but the realities of life dictate their own rules to us. Work, affairs, the end of the quarter and year - all this leaves its mark on the availability of free time, and therefore on preparation for the holiday. If there is very little time left, and you don’t want to give loved ones a soulless purchased gift, then it’s time to think about New Year’s crafts made from natural materials. In this article, we have collected for you the best master classes from all over the Internet on making New Year's crafts from pine cones.

Rules for working with cones

So, before you start making New Year's decorations from pine cones, you should familiarize yourself with the rules for their use, if you can call it that. There are several rules for preparing cones before using them as material for New Year's crafts, so that the finished product does not deform or deteriorate some time later.

Rule 1. Working with cones is a pleasure, but it is worth considering the fact that the air temperature outside is much lower than indoors, which means that the cones you bring will begin to open. Spruce trees will look like tousled hedgehogs, and pine trees will look like fluffy Christmas trees. If your craft involves the use of closed cones, then dip the cone in a container with wood glue for 30 seconds, then remove it and let it dry. Regardless of the temperature, the cone will always be “closed”.

Rule 2. If you need open fluffy cones for a craft, but there is no time to wait, then in order to open them as quickly as possible, the cones need to be boiled for half an hour and then dried on a radiator. After drying, the cone will become fluffy and will no longer change its shape. Instead of cooking, you can use the oven, placing the pine cones there for two hours, pre-setting the temperature to 250⁰C.

Rule 3. If the shape of the cone is not entirely satisfactory to you, it can be slightly adjusted. To do this, the natural material needs to be soaked in water and then tied with thread. After drying, the shape of the cone will be the same as you gave it with thread.

Rule 4. The buds don't have to be brown. Still, the New Year is a holiday of miracles and an ordinary fir cone can turn from a simple brown one to white or even golden. In general, to bleach buds, you need to soak them in water with bleach (1:1), then rinse and dry. The result is impressive.

So, now that you have familiarized yourself with the rules for working with pine cones, it’s time to start creating New Year’s decorations from this natural material. What can you make from pine cones? Yes, anything! The main thing is to stock up on a festive mood and give free rein to your imagination. And our master classes will help you navigate a wide variety of options.

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