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Natural Christmas decorations: pine cone trees

December 11, 2018 by Catherine 7 Comments

How to make these beautiful pine cone trees natural christmas decorations - a fun, easy nature craft to help prepare your home for the holiday season.My kitchen is covered in glitter, but that’s all part of crafting at this time of year isn’t it?!

We’ve already started our Christmas crafting with cute Pom Pom Pine Cones, and these gorgeous sparkly pine cone trees are our latest natural Christmas decorations project.

This is absolutely ideal for children of all ages; there are no fiddly bits and it’s a pretty simple craft.

We started off by choosing a nice selection of pine cones, to make different shapes and sizes of ‘tree’.  You could go on a nature hunt to find these, or they’re easy to pick up from craft suppliers online.

Once we’d chosen our pine cones, the kids got busy with the paint.  Make sure you protect surfaces and clothes before you start!

How to make these beautiful pie cone trees natural christmas decorations - a fun nature craft to help prepare your home for the holiday season.

While the paint was still wet, we sprinkled glitter onto the pine cones; this avoided the need to add glue and worked really well.  You could of course build up different paint colours (dabs of white for snow would look great wouldn’t it?), and then use pva glue for the glitter at the end.

How to make these beautiful pie cone trees natural christmas decorations - a fun nature craft to help prepare your home for the holiday season

The paint was quite thick in places, so we let our pine cones dry overnight.

How to make these beautiful pie cone trees natural christmas decorations - a fun nature craft to help prepare your home for the holiday season

The next step was to create a base for each tree.  We used plaster of paris because we had some in the cupboard, but air drying clay would also work really well.

I mixed the powder with water to get the right consistency (two parts powder to one part water should be about right), then the kids helped dollop it onto a sheet of foil and press each pine cone into it.  I like the way the bases look like a little pile of snow.

How to make these beautiful pie cone trees natural christmas decorations - a fun nature craft to help prepare your home for the holiday season

Once the bases were dry, we glued on some sparkly gem decorations and our pine cone trees were finished.

How to make these beautiful pie cone trees natural christmas decorations - a fun nature craft to help prepare your home for the holiday season

What do you think?  I can’t wait to decorate our Christmas table with them.

If you’ve been making your own natural Christmas decorations I’d love to hear about them in the comments!

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How to make these beautiful pine cone trees natural christmas decorations - a fun, easy nature craft to help prepare your home for the holiday season.This post is linking up with the fab Kid-Made Christmas Decoration Series, run by the lovely Jen from The Mad House.  The series is running throughout November, with a fab new homemade Christmas decoration craft every day.  Pop over and check out all the brilliant ideas that are being shared! Yesterday Allie at Live Love Mess shared her fab Graham Cracker Gingerbread House, and today over at Blue Bear Wood Anthea has a lovely Christmas tree craft.

 

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Comments

  1. Claire says

    November 29, 2016 at 9:38 am

    Love these tree. Think we will do something similar. I was planning to spray our cones silver but I haven’t got round to buying spray paint. Plus your idea will involve my 3 year old more.

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    • Catherine says

      December 5, 2016 at 6:33 pm

      Ah yes paint would be more hands-on for little ones wouldn’t it – I love the idea of silver though!

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  2. Shelley Jessup says

    December 4, 2016 at 1:41 am

    How wonderful! I think I’d give these a go with Sophie – thanks

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    • Catherine says

      December 5, 2016 at 6:34 pm

      Have fun!

      Reply
  3. Jen Walshaw says

    November 20, 2017 at 1:07 pm

    I LOVE these so much. In fact, you have inspired me to use some tiny plant pots I have! Thank you for joining in with this years kid made Christmas Series

    Reply
    • Catherine says

      November 27, 2017 at 9:50 am

      Brilliant! Have fun 🙂

      Reply

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