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Homemade Christmas decorations: Pom Pom Pine Cones

December 11, 2019 by Catherine 8 Comments

homemade Christmas decorations made from pine cones and mini pom poms

Well it’s official: the Christmas prep has started in our house 🙂

We’ve been having fun with some homemade Christmas crafts, making these cute DIY Christmas decorations from pine cones and pom poms.  Is there any limit to the crafting potential of pine cones?!

I do love homemade Christmas decorations. They’re so full of personal meaning, and a great way to spend some fun time crafting with the kids. Every year our Christmas tree becomes more and more a tree of lovely family memories.  At such a hectic time of year, I find that a bit of leisurely crafting really helps prevent the mounting excitement spilling over into all-out mayhem too!

DIY Christmas ornaments: how to make pom pom pine cone tree decorations

Start off by choosing a nice selection of pine cones for your decorations.  You could go on a nature hunt to find these, or they’re easy to pick up from craft suppliers *online.

materials for making pine cone christmas decorations

Once you’ve chosen your *pine cones, you will need a few other supplies to make your decorations:

  • *PVA glue
  • *Paintbrushes
  • *mini pom poms
  • *natural string

You can use a *hot glue gun instead of PVA glue to stick the pom poms onto the pine cones, but if you’re doing this craft with children I think it’s easier and safer to use PVA. If you do use a hot glue gun, I would absolutely recommend an adult does the gluing part for younger children.

making homemade christmas decorations using pine cones and mini pom poms

Use your paintbrush to add dabs of glue to your pine cone where you want the pom poms to be.

making homemade christmas decorations using pine cones and mini pom poms

Once your glue is in position, add your mini pom poms. Push each one gently into the glue, to give it a good chance of sticking. The shape of the pine cone should help to hold them in.

making homemade christmas decorations using pine cones and mini pom poms

Once the glue has dried, cut a length of string and tie it around the top of each pine cone. Aim to have the top of the pine cone in the middle of the length of string. Then tie both ends together to make a large loop.

Now all you need to do is hang them up!

homemade Christmas decorations made from pine cones and mini pom poms

Aren’t they great?  The kids went for the multicoloured pom pom look, but I think they’d also look brilliant with a single colour.

More Christmas crafts

You might also like to check out my other homemade Christmas crafts:

Pine cone Christmas trees

Baking soda dough tree ornaments

Homemade Christmas cards

Have you got any suggestions for natural homemade Christmas decorations?  Do share them with me in the comments.

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Homemade Christmas decorations: how to make pine cone Christmas tree decorations. A fun, easy DIY Christmas decorations project that the kids will love.

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Comments

  1. RachelSwirl says

    November 22, 2016 at 10:06 am

    Oh they look fab we may have to give them a go.

    Reply
    • Catherine says

      November 22, 2016 at 2:43 pm

      They were really easy and not very messy, I can highly recommend!

      Reply
  2. Linda aka Crafty Gardener says

    November 23, 2016 at 8:15 pm

    These are cute ornaments. I made almost the same ornaments many years ago with our girls but used beads instead. They sparkled on the tree.

    Reply
    • Catherine says

      November 24, 2016 at 9:26 am

      Ah I bet beads looked fantastic! I suspect we’ll be making more of these, thanks for that idea.

      Reply
  3. Claire says

    November 26, 2016 at 2:47 pm

    I love these. So bright and colourful. My children are too little for glue guns yet though. We do have a bunch of pine cones waiting to be made festive.

    Reply
    • Catherine says

      November 27, 2016 at 4:12 pm

      We’ve also been painting pine cones with pva glue (or poster paint) and adding lots of glitter – definitely safer for little ones and lots of fun!

      Reply
  4. Catherine says

    November 27, 2016 at 4:13 pm

    I love the bright colours too – can’t wait to hang them on the tree when it goes up 🙂

    Reply

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  1. Christmas crafts for kids - What Mummy Thinks says:
    December 21, 2017 at 7:28 pm

    […] Catherine from Growing Family made these lovely pine cone pom pom decorations – quick, easy and really fun! For this you will need pine cones, mini pom poms (which you can buy from craft stores), and some natural string, plus a hot glue gun for sticking on the pom poms. You can see exactly how she did it here. […]

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