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Quick and Easy Pinecone Crafts for the Holidays

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Pinecone crafts are simply the best when it comes to holiday crafting. Why? For starters, they’re super affordable! If you can’t forage for free pinecones in your backyard, then they’re always available at big-box stores or craft stores for a reasonable price. They’re even great Christmas craft ideas for kids because they can be super quick and easy. They’re so easy, they’re also the best for last-minute holiday crafting. The possibilities are endless when it comes to pincone crafts for Christmas, so take a look at a few of our favorites and get crafting!

Quick and Easy Pinecone Crafts for the Holidays

Gold Tipped Pinecone Ornament: the classic pinecone craft for Christmas! If you don’t have a few of these DIY ornaments on your tree, then they’re a must-have this year. Mix things up by coating your pinecone in glitter or using other metallics to create colorful tips on your handmade ornaments.

Gold Tipped Pinecone Ornament

Breathtaking Frosted Pinecone Décor: learn how to create the perfect, frosted pinecones for a wintry DIY home decor project. You can display these around the home or even on your Christmas tree!

Breathtaking Frosted Pinecone Décor

Simple Pine Cone & Ornament DIY Garland: use those metallic, gold-tipped pinecones or those frosted pinecones to create a rustic and simple DIY garland. It’s a simple and classic homemade Christmas decoration that you can use year after year.

Simple Pine Cone & Ornament DIY Garland

Gorgeous Glitter Pine Cone Wreath: this tutorial shows you how to make beautiful, glitter-tastic wreaths with pinecones in different colors! Make one in your favorite festive shade to adorn your front door.

Gorgeous Glitter Pine Cone Wreath

Bleached Pine Cones: a different approach to the glitter and metallic pinecones, this bleached pinecone tutorial shows you how to get this gorgeous effect. It’s a budget-friendly, rustic, and simple DIY decor project — a win, win, win!

Bleached Pine Cones

Frosted Pinecone Mason Jar Lights: create these decorations for easy mason jar lights to decorate your holiday mantle or any other space in your home that can use the soft glow from candlelight. We love how this mason jar craft idea incorporates one of our favorites: frosted pinecones!

Frosted Pinecone Mason Jar Lights

Pine Cone Ornament Mobile: the ultimate in rustic and simple DIY decor, this DIY mobile creates a decor piece that truly brings nature inside. If you like glam, then try using Gold Tipped Pinecones to take this craft up a notch.

Pine Cone Ornament Mobile

Pottery Barn Knockoff Faux Antler Wreath: pinecone wreaths are super affordable and easy to make, so we’ve included two on our list. Not only does this tutorial show you how to make a DIY wreath to die-for, but also how to save money by making faux antlers!

Pottery Barn Knockoff Faux Antler Wreath

Pretty Easy Pine Cone Place Card Holders: create this simple and affordable place card holder for your next family gathering. It’ll make your table setting for your Christmas dinner oh-s0-festive!

Pretty Easy Pine Cone Place Card Holders

 

Comment below and let us know, what other materials are great for holiday crafting?

 

Link Love: Pinecone Crafts

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Head outside and look at the ground. Believe it or not, there is a wealth of craft materials at your feet. Let nature be your guide and round up a couple of pinecones for your autumn and winter crafts – you won’t believe how many creative projects you can make.

Now is the perfect time to start making pinecone crafts – they’re seasonal, fragrant and easy to find. Since Christmas is just around the corner, now is the time to start making ornaments, table decorations and more. Our collection of the Top 7 Pinecone Christmas Crafts for Decorating will help you get in the holiday spirit. You’ll find ideas for table settings, wreaths, ornaments and more. A Beautiful Black Pinecone Wreath looks great during the holiday season but it can remain up all year long. Pinecones can also be an ideal canvas if you want to make a bold statement during the holiday season. Glittery Christmas Pinecone Ornaments require very few materials but truly stand out among the other more traditional ornaments on a tree. Kids and adults can work on these ornaments together, making this an ideal afternoon craft. If you aren’t as keen on crafting for the holiday season, make Yo Yo Stuffed Pinecones any time you want. Use up those small pieces scrap fabric pieces to create the tiny yo yo’s needed for this quick and easy craft.

Now is the perfect time of year to turn pinecones into everything from ornaments to place card holders. Head outside before the snow begins to fall and start gathering some pinecones. The delightful smell and rustic look will turn a boring craft into an extraordinary creative experience.

  1. Pinecone Birds from Blueberry Junkie
  2. Pinecone Place Card from Gimmer Some Style
  3. Painted Pinecone Garland from Simplicity in the South
  4. Ombre Pinecone from Whimzeecal
  5. Pinecone Ornament from Flutter Flutter
  6. Homemade Pinecone Firelighters from Kate’s Creative Space
  7. Pinecone Fire Starter Favors from My Own Labels
  8. Pinecone Decorations from Confetti Workshop
  9. Cinnamon Pinecones from Treasure in an Earthen Vessel

How to: Make Easy Pinecone Christmas Crafts

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During the fall months there are so many pinecones just starting to fall of the trees. You rake your yard, you get annoyed with the mess and you just don’t know what to do with them. Now that the holiday season is arriving we have a few ideas on how you can use those pinecones.

When you have your family over this Christmas you want to have your tables neatly decorated and lit up with candles. You can make a candle holder with all the pinecones you collect. You need:

  • STYROFOAM Brand Products:
    • Wreath, two 10″ x 1″
  • Pinecones: 2″ long, approximately 2 dozen; 1/2″ – 1″ long, approximately 3 cups
  • Brass candle holder picks, 2-1/2″, four
  • Candles, four in your choice of color
  • Unshelled nuts: Brazil nuts, hazelnuts, almonds , approximately 2 dozen each
  • Low temperature glue gun
  • Acrylic spray paint: Gold

In five easy steps you can have a brilliant candle holder for the center of your table.

Just follow these steps:

  1. Glue wreaths together. Let dry.
  2. Paint wreath, nuts and pinecones gold. Let dry.
  3. Glue Brazil nuts, points facing up, along lower inside of wreath. Glue hazelnuts in a row above Brazil nuts. Glue 1/2″ pinecones between the two rows to fill in empty spaces.

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Some other fabulous pinecone Christmas crafts you can make are:

Pinecone Christmas Tree from amazingmoms.com

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Pinecone Angel Ornaments from fabulousliving.com

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Wax Pinecone Decorations from themagiconion.com

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Pinecone Ornament from RedRiverStencil of Etsy

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Tiny Pinecone Garland from redbirdcrafts.com

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Pinecone Votives from zakkalife.com

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There are so many crafts you can make using pinecones, you just have to get creative and use your imagination. For a nice Christmas pinecone you can simply add some sparkles or glitter and hang it on your tree, it looks like snow. Check out more pinecone crafts you can make!

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