Everyone associates the New Year with the smell of tangerines and pine needles, with miracles, and, of course, with fir cones. At first glance, the cones do not look festive at all, but you just have to turn on your imagination, how ordinary natural material will sparkle with completely new colors. We invite you to learn how to make a Christmas tree from fir cones with your own hands!

Making such a Christmas tree is very simple, even a child can cope with this task, so making a Christmas tree from cones can be a great way to make New Year's gifts or holiday decorations for the home.

Preparation rules

Very often, the cones falling from the spruce and pine trees turn out to be closed and only open after a while, thereby changing the original appearance in which this cone was delivered to your home. This can overshadow the craft a little, so before you start making a Christmas tree from spruce or pine cones, you can familiarize yourself with some of the intricacies of preparing cones for crafts.

1. If you want to leave the cones closed, after picking them you need to put them in a container with wood glue for literally 20-30 seconds, this will not allow them to open.
2. If you have collected closed bumps and want them to open as soon as possible, there are several ways to achieve this:

• you can put them to cook for half an hour, and then dry them on a battery;
• send the cones to the oven, preheated to 250 degrees, for 2-2.5 hours.
• Plus, the heat treatment will kill the microbes and small insects living in the buds and make them safe.

There is also a way to correct the shape of the cone: you just need to soak it in water for 5-10 minutes, tie it with a thread and dry it on a battery. To whiten the bumps, they must be soaked for 5-6 hours in water with diluted bleach (1: 1), then rinsed thoroughly and dried.

Getting Started

For work we need:

1. Cones. Their number depends on how large a decorative herringbone you want. The more cones, the larger and more luxuriant the pine cone herringbone. You need to choose good cones for crafts, without defects;
2. Glue gun;
3. Paint cans. The color depends only on your imagination;
4. Garland;
5. There are two ways to make such a Christmas tree: stick the cones on a prepared cardboard cone or on a fiberboard base. In our master class, manufacturing will be carried out according to the second method, with a fiberboard base (instead of fiberboard, you can take a chipboard sheet or any other dense material that can be easily cut).

Now that the buds have been processed, the first step is to sort them into large and small. This task can easily be entrusted to a child.

The size of the leaf will vary depending on how large you want the tree to be.

We have a sheet of 30 × 30 cm. Draw an even circle on it with a compass and cut it out with a jigsaw. Only dad can cope with this task, and thus you can involve the whole family in the process of creating a fluffy beauty with your own hands!

In the cut out circle, you can make another smaller circle, as shown in the photo. This is necessary in order to then place a garland inside the future Christmas tree, thereby creating beautiful play and glow.

You can also make legs for the tree to make it more stable. You can use special iron legs, or you can buy plastic furniture legs in the store. The main thing is that the base is firmly on the surface.

Now we directly proceed to gluing the cones. To do this, we take the largest cones and use a glue gun to glue them along the edge to our base. The glue is applied directly to the bump itself and to its base and to the sidewalls to hold adjacent bumps together. When the first circle is glued, you need to wait until the glue is completely dry and hardened, otherwise the whole structure may fall apart.

The second row is a little more difficult to make: the cones are attached to each other, in the intervals between the cones of the first row. You don't need to feel sorry for the glue if you want to get a stable structure. Again, we are waiting for complete drying when finished with the second row. And in the same way we glue the rest of the rows, with each row slightly shifting the cones to the middle, forming a cone.

For the top of the tree, it is best to choose an oblong cone with a pointed tip to make it look more realistic.

Next, we have a crucial step - painting. This is not necessary if you want to preserve the natural colors of the material. We will cover the Christmas tree with silver spray paint. Let's repeat that you can choose absolutely any color.

It is best to paint with aerosol paints on the street, since such paints have a specific odor that is not so easy to erode, or we open all the windows in the apartment, and cover the walls and floor in the place where the painting will be done with newspapers so as not to stain anything around. After staining, you need to wait until the paint has completely dried.

Now let's go back to the hole in the base. We will place a garland in it so that the Christmas tree sparkles from the inside. The decision whether to decorate the tree itself or not is up to you, we threw a little tinsel on top.

And now our beauty is ready! Its production took about 1.5 hours, not including the preparatory stage, and it also turned out to be minimally expensive. We wish you pleasant creativity!

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On the eve of the New Year, many are thinking about how to celebrate it and how to be with the New Year tree. The presence of a living beauty in our time is no longer so fashionable, but made of various materials are very relevant. Now we will analyze several ways how to make the simplest Christmas tree from pre-prepared spruce cones in a master class with our own hands. Cones are wonderful raw materials for various kinds of crafts. Collecting them is not difficult, pine and spruce trees grow in almost any park, garden or forest. At the same time, you can save on purchases of expensive New Year's decorations. Along with this, we get an environmentally friendly natural material that not only decorates, but also gives a unique coniferous aroma, creating a festive atmosphere.

How to make a Christmas tree from fir cones with your own hands in MK

Before starting work, in order to prevent distortion of the dimensions of the finished product, it is advisable to perform some procedures.

• Being warm, the lump opens, once in a cold place it closes again, therefore, to fix the shape, you need to hold it in a solution of wood glue for at least half a minute, then dry it.
• If you need to open it faster, you can boil and dry it on a battery or keep it in the oven.

This tiny Christmas tree is made from just one big bump, it is only important that it is fully open, it is very convenient to do this craft with small children.

So the materials:

• Big bump - 1 piece
• Green paint
• Silver nail polish
• Decorative elements - beads, beads, bows, ribbons, snowflakes
• The base is salted dough or a small pot.

1. We paint the already prepared open “herringbone” green
2. We tint the edges with varnish, you can replace the varnish with sparkles, sprinkle them on the places greased with transparent glue.
3. Also, with the help of glue and various beads or whatever is available, we decorate our tree, the result will completely depend on imagination.
4. We make a stand. We sculpt our "snow" from salted dough in the form of a cake and set the finished Christmas tree in it. Or just fix it in a small pot.

Consider the simplest option for making a New Year's beauty from pine cones, which requires a minimum of time and necessary items. It is suitable for decorating a table, for example, in an office, or a small shelf. What is needed for this:

• Cones
• Glue gun or thin wire
• Rain (preferably green)
• Scissors

1. We glue the base, tightly laying the largest cones, glue them with a gun or twist them with wire
2. Then we lay the next row of the smaller ones, creating a cone, and so on, until there is only one left, which will be the top.
3. Cut the rain into small pieces and glue it in between, decorating the finished creation.

This is the result.

In this way, it is possible to make a larger Christmas tree, of course, and more raw materials will be needed.

This requires:

• Cones
• Glue gun
• Cardboard
• Scissors
• Spray paint (silver or gold)

1. First, we will make a base, cut out a circle of any size from cardboard - this will be the bottom. Then we glue the cone, its base should be slightly less than the diameter of the bottom. We fill the inner part of the cone with old newspapers, small foam, if this is not done, the cardboard may not withstand the weight and deform. And we combine these two blanks into a single structure.
2. Now with hot glue we connect the cones to the base, starting from the bottom, in a circle and further up. It is important to fill in all possible gaps by choosing the correct dimensions for the starting material.
3. Cover the formed tree with spray paint. If you wish, you can decorate with a luminous garland.

The photo below shows in detail all the manufacturing processes described above.

With a huge number of cones and a large supply of patience and perseverance, you can create a large outdoor festive spruce. All family members, both adults and children, can join the work on it.

• A lot of cones
• Superglue - a lot
• Plywood
• Wooden blocks or furniture legs, wheels can be used.
• Aerosol paint (green and white)

1. A circle is cut out of a piece of plywood, the diameter of which is from 50 to 70 cm. On one side of it are attached pieces or ready-made legs for furniture, and on the other side a New Year tree will "grow".
2. We spread the cones along the edge of the base and glue them together and with the plywood surface. We already put the next row with a slight shift to the center of the circle, and so on all subsequent rows. The result should be a cone.
3. We paint over the resulting creation with green paint, and we smear the edges with white paint, creating the effect of snow.

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Everyone associates the New Year with the smell of tangerines and pine needles, with miracles, and, of course, with fir cones. At first glance, the cones do not look festive at all, but you just have to turn on your imagination, how ordinary natural material will sparkle with completely new colors. We invite you to learn how to make a Christmas tree from fir cones with your own hands!

Making such a Christmas tree is very simple, even a child can cope with this task, so making a Christmas tree from cones can be a great way to make New Year's gifts or holiday decorations for the home.

Preparation rules

Very often, the cones falling from the spruce and pine trees turn out to be closed and only open after a while, thereby changing the original appearance in which this cone was delivered to your home. This can overshadow the craft a little, so before you start making a Christmas tree from spruce or pine cones, you can familiarize yourself with some of the intricacies of preparing cones for crafts.

1. If you want to leave the cones closed, after picking them you need to put them in a container with wood glue for literally 20-30 seconds, this will not allow them to open.
2. If you have collected closed bumps and want them to open as soon as possible, there are several ways to achieve this:

• you can put them to cook for half an hour, and then dry them on a battery;
• send the cones to the oven, preheated to 250 degrees, for 2-2.5 hours.
• Plus, the heat treatment will kill the microbes and small insects living in the buds and make them safe.

There is also a way to correct the shape of the cone: you just need to soak it in water for 5-10 minutes, tie it with a thread and dry it on a battery. To whiten the bumps, they must be soaked for 5-6 hours in water with diluted bleach (1: 1), then rinsed thoroughly and dried.

Getting Started

For work we need:

1. Cones. Their number depends on how large a decorative herringbone you want. The more cones, the larger and more luxuriant the pine cone herringbone. You need to choose good cones for crafts, without defects;
2. Glue gun;
3. Paint cans. The color depends only on your imagination;
4. Garland;
5. There are two ways to make such a Christmas tree: stick the cones on a prepared cardboard cone or on a fiberboard base. In our master class, manufacturing will be carried out according to the second method, with a fiberboard base (instead of fiberboard, you can take a chipboard sheet or any other dense material that can be easily cut).

Now that the buds have been processed, the first step is to sort them into large and small. This task can easily be entrusted to a child.

The size of the leaf will vary depending on how large you want the tree to be.

We have a sheet of 30 × 30 cm. Draw an even circle on it with a compass and cut it out with a jigsaw. Only dad can cope with this task, and thus you can involve the whole family in the process of creating a fluffy beauty with your own hands!

In the cut out circle, you can make another smaller circle, as shown in the photo. This is necessary in order to then place a garland inside the future Christmas tree, thereby creating beautiful play and glow.

You can also make legs for the tree to make it more stable. You can use special iron legs, or you can buy plastic furniture legs in the store. The main thing is that the base is firmly on the surface.

Now we directly proceed to gluing the cones. To do this, we take the largest cones and use a glue gun to glue them along the edge to our base. The glue is applied directly to the bump itself and to its base and to the sidewalls to hold adjacent bumps together. When the first circle is glued, you need to wait until the glue is completely dry and hardened, otherwise the whole structure may fall apart.

The second row is a little more difficult to make: the cones are attached to each other, in the intervals between the cones of the first row. You don't need to feel sorry for the glue if you want to get a stable structure. Again, we are waiting for complete drying when finished with the second row. And in the same way we glue the rest of the rows, with each row slightly shifting the cones to the middle, forming a cone.

For the top of the tree, it is best to choose an oblong cone with a pointed tip to make it look more realistic.

Next, we have a crucial step - painting. This is not necessary if you want to preserve the natural colors of the material. We will cover the Christmas tree with silver spray paint. Let's repeat that you can choose absolutely any color.

It is best to paint with aerosol paints on the street, since such paints have a specific odor that is not so easy to erode, or we open all the windows in the apartment, and cover the walls and floor in the place where the painting will be done with newspapers so as not to stain anything around. After staining, you need to wait until the paint has completely dried.

Every child knows what bumps are. They are pine, spruce, cedar. You can make a variety of crafts from them. This requires a little time, imagination, desire and patience.

The process of making any craft will give you a lot of pleasure. As a result, you and your child will admire your creativity for more than one day.

From this natural material you can create:

• Decorative compositions: candlestick, ikebana, wreath on the door.
• Animals: bear, hedgehog, penguin, squirrel, owl.
• New Year's products: Christmas tree decorations, a star on a Christmas tree, a Christmas tree.

Bud preparation process

Before you start making a craft from this natural material, you need to carefully examine and process it. Dirty bumps need to be washed and dried, and you can use an old toothbrush to clean.

As the room is warmer than outside, the unopened bumps will begin to open. Spruce trees will look like hedgehogs, and pine trees will look like fluffy Christmas trees. And if for making crafts you need exactly unopened bumps, then they must be placed in carpentry glue for 30 seconds, and then dried.

If you need the material that has opened up, but there is no time to wait, then you need to put it on a baking sheet and put it in a slightly preheated oven. The oven door must be ajar. After a while, they will begin to gradually open up.

There is another way that will help open the buds - this is cooking. Boil them in boiling water for 30 minutes and then dry them. They will become fluffy and will not change shape.

These two processing methods not only help the natural material to open up, but also kill all microbes.

If you don't like the shape of the buds, you can fix it. To do this, you must first soak them in water, and then give them the desired shape and tie them with a thread. Once dry, they will have the shape you gave them.

For the manufacture of handicrafts, this material can be not only in its natural form, it can be varnished, paint, artificial snow.

In order for them to have a white tint, they must be soaked in a special solution for five hours. To prepare the solution, you need to mix water and whiteness in equal proportions. After soaking, they must be rinsed in clean water and then dried.

Now you know the rules for working with this natural material and you can safely start making crafts.

DIY Christmas tree-cone

Making such a tree is not difficult, you need desire and patience.

To make it you will need:

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

1. First you need to make a base - a cone... To do this, draw a circle with a compass or plate. The radius of the circle corresponds to the height of the tree. Cut out a circle and fold it in half. The cone will need one half of the circle. Connect the workpiece with glue. The craft cone is ready.
2. Now take the prepared cones and glue them to the cone. It is necessary to start from the bottom and the largest ones. There should be smaller bumps at the top.
3. The void between the cones can be filled with tinsel.

The Christmas tree is ready!

Small Christmas tree made of pine cones and plasticine

This craft is very simple to do, even a very small child can handle it.

To make a Christmas tree, you will need:

• Spruce cone;
• Cotton wool;
• Plasticine;
• Braid;
• Green paint.

Manufacturing steps:

1. Paint the bump with a paintbrush. A child can do this.
2. Make a stand for the Christmas tree from plasticine. To do this, roll up the ball and flatten it.
3. Stick an open spruce cone to the base, its scales should look up.
4. Roll small colored balls out of plasticine. Attach them to the tree in different places.
5. With the help of cotton wool, you can depict snow.
6. You can mold a pike from plasticine and attach it to the top of the craft.
7. It remains to decorate the craft with braid.

A small and original Christmas tree is ready!

Step-by-step master class of a Christmas tree made of cones

To make such a New Year's beauty, you will need the following materials:

• Cardboard;
• Glue gun;
• PVA glue;
• Pine cones;
• Gold paint.
• Beads and sequins.

Stages of work:

1. It is necessary to make a base from cardboard - a cone for a fluffy beauty.
2. We glue the cones in rows on the base. The rows need to be fastened with a shift inward, they should resemble a triangle.
3. Now paint on the tree and decorate it with beads and sparkles.

The fluffy beauty is ready!

Miniature scale tree

To make such an elegant Christmas tree, you will need scales from pine cones, cardboard, scissors, glue and paint of your favorite color.

Manufacturing steps:

1. Use scissors to cut the desired number of flakes.
2. Make a cardboard cone for your Christmas tree.
3. Glue the scales to the base. It is necessary to glue in circles, starting from the bottom. The rows can be staggered or one above the other.
4. The top of the tree can be decorated with dried cloves.
5. After the glue has dried, the Christmas tree must be painted, for example, gold. Spray paint works best for this procedure.
6. Apply PVA glue to the ends of the scales and sprinkle them with glitter.

The miniature beauty is ready!

Having made one of these crafts, you will not only get great pleasure, but also please your baby. Don't be afraid to fantasize and create.

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If you are lucky enough not only to walk through the coniferous forest, but also to bring a few cones from there, then make beautiful New Year's crafts out of them.

We make toys for the Christmas tree

From a cone, you can make not only a Christmas toy for a Christmas tree, but also the Christmas tree itself, as in the photo. To do this, paint it green and wait until it dries. Attach bows, beads and snowflakes, flowers cut from white lace to a miniature Christmas tree. Don't forget to make a stand for the Christmas tree.

If you show your imagination, you will be able to create creative crafts from cones in the form of squirrels, deer and birds, but you will have to make them heads and legs, and the cones will serve as a torso.

If you just paint the bump or cover it with glue and sprinkle with sparkles, you get an unusual decoration, to which you just have to attach a loop.

Candlesticks made of natural material

The shining of festive lights raises your spirits, so on holidays you want to see them as often as possible. Do not limit yourself only to garlands, make New Year's candlesticks from cones, and they will add brightness and comfort to the interior.

The easiest option is to decorate ready-made candlesticks, decorating them in the spirit of the holiday with pine cones, twigs and Christmas tree decorations.

Interesting candlesticks can be obtained from glass jars by pouring artificial snow (or ordinary salt) on the bottom. Glue a strip of lace to the top of the jar, tie a couple of cones sprinkled with "snow".

Make candlesticks from flower holders, as in the photo, decorating them with artificial needles. For decoration, use small Christmas toys, cinnamon sticks, beads and cones.

Wreaths on the door

Currently, they are popular, it is not difficult to make them. The main thing is to prepare a reliable base in the form of a circle.
The base frame can be made from:

• wire;
• a flexible wire hanger for clothes;
• thick cardboard;
• buy a ready-made circle in a handicraft store.

Decor elements are attached to the base: cones, ribbons, bows, nuts, leaves, etc. To make the product look more impressive, some details can be covered with gilding, white paint imitating snow or sparkles.

Decor for table setting

Do not forget that not only the New Year tree should be elegant, but also the festive table. Let cute gnomes from cones hide between the plates or bright owls peep out. Make nice souvenirs for each party to the feast: glue bright feathers to the cone and write the name of the person to whom the cutlery is intended.