Crafting with pine cones
The best ideas for autumn and Christmas
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Creative decorations for autumn and winter can be made from pine cones. You can find great ideas for crafting with pine cones here!
With its woody cone shape, the fruit of the fir tree offers a wide range of handicraft materials in autumn and winter. You don’t have to look out for a fir tree, In addition to the classic pine cones, the cones from larch, spruce and pine are just as suitable. Just that Larch cones are ideal with their protruding scales and a size of up to 6 centimeters. Handicrafts with natural materials are very popular with children, as many funny little figures can be made from a wide variety of found objects. In autumn the time has come: In forests, gardens and parks you will find various cones, which are in an extended one Autumn walk fall at your feet. In addition, you don’t need a lot of other materials to implement beautiful craft ideas: Basically you need pine cones in different sizes, hot glue or craft glue, other natural materials such as z. B. acorns, acorn hats, googly eyes and, if necessary, waterproof pens. Here we show you the best ideas from pine cone figures to Christmas elves.
Handicrafts with pine cones in autumn
Small figures made from pine cones
The little creatures are not only wonderful as autumn decorations, but also delight the grandparents as small souvenirs on their next visit.
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Your imagination is asked for here: How do you turn a cone, alder fruits, acorns, hats, sticks and googly eyes into a funny forest companion? Try it out and stick alder fruits or acorns as heads and noses on the cones, convert the acorn caps into eyes and position small sticks in the right place as arms – and the little autumn parade is ready.
Make owls
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The tawny owl should not be missing from the craft ideas! Simply use thin craft felt and place large circles on the pine cones that imitate the eyes and face veil. This is followed by wings and nose. You can also indicate the ears with some craft felt.
Crafting with pine cones: ideas for Christmas
Make little gnomes out of pine cones
The little elves for Christmas are ready in a few minutes. In addition to the cones, you only need small wooden balls, waterproof pens in black and red, craft felt, and a needle and thread to sew the hats together. Glue everything together well with hot glue and finally attach the gnomes to two small felt plates so that they can stand well.
Make colorful Christmas trees
This craft idea is suitable even for smaller children. The small pine cone tree is decorated with colorful felt balls. Glue the balls tightly so that they cannot roll away!
Tinker skiers
At the sight of the little skiers, a good mood is inevitable. Glue two ice cream sticks under the pine cones as skis, fix two pipe cleaners as arms with glue and position shortened kebab skewers with threaded buttons as ski sticks. The friendly faces are created from a styrofoam ball, whereby a piece of knitted fabric (e.g. from a baby sock) can be sewn around as a scarf and hat.
Make angels out of pine cones
These little angels pay us a visit at Christmas. You can easily make them out of pine cones, painted wooden balls with glued-on googly eyes and wings made of paper. So that the little angels don’t fly away, she sticks them on a gallery, e.g. B. from painted pieces of branch.
Looking for more ideas for crafting? Here we have suggestions and inspiration on the subject of handicrafts with natural materials, handicrafts with cans and handicrafts with old books. Have fun!