You will need:

Pine and fir cones;

Scissors;

Thick cardboard;

Decorative berries and birds (or any other decorations);

Hot glue;

Low wide vase;

Artificial snow in a can.

First of all, decide on the size of the future Christmas tree, its width. On a sheet of cardboard, draw a circle of the desired diameter (you can use, for example, a plate). Cut out the resulting shape.

Clean the cones prepared for creativity from debris, then sort them by size into three piles: small, medium and large. Put a cardboard circle in front of you, apply a thick layer of hot glue along its edge, then lay the cones on the glue bigger size wide side to the center of the circle. Glue the cones together properly.

Thus, continue to lay out the source materials in tiers in a circle, trying to make each next tier a little smaller in diameter than the previous one. Remember, larger cones must be at the base of the Christmas tree, medium - in its middle, and smaller - at the top. At the very top of the craft, fasten one cone vertically.

The Christmas tree is ready, now you can start decorating it. Apply artificial snow on it (it is better to do this on the street, because if you apply it indoors, you can stain the surrounding objects). Let it dry a little, then decorate the Christmas tree with artificial berries and. The Christmas tree will look very original if the decorations are chosen in the same color scheme.

As soon as the tree is ready, take a wide vase or flower pot, turn the product upside down and apply glue to the bottom. Glue the cardboard base of the craft to the vase/pot and let the glue dry. The decorative Christmas tree is ready.

If you were lucky enough not only to walk through the coniferous forest, but also 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 New Year's toy for the Christmas tree, but also the Christmas tree itself, as in the photo. To do this, color it in green color and wait until dry. 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 imagination, you can create creative crafts from cones in the form of squirrels, deer and birds, but you will have to make their heads and legs, and the cones will serve as the body.

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

Candlesticks made of natural materials

The radiance of festive lights cheers up, so on holidays you want to see them as often as possible. Do not limit yourself to garlands only, make Christmas candlesticks from cones, and they will add brightness and coziness to the interior.

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

Interesting candlesticks will be obtained from glass jars if artificial snow (or ordinary salt) is poured onto the bottom. To top jars, glue a strip of lace, tie a couple of cones sprinkled with "snow".

Make candle holders from flower plants, as in the photo, decorating them artificial needles. For decor, 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:

• wires;
• bendable wire clothes hanger;
• 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.

Table setting decor

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

Every child knows what cones 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 a lot of pleasure. And 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 toys, a star on a Christmas tree, a New Year's tree.

The process of preparing cones

Before you start making crafts from this natural material, you need to carefully review and process it. Dirty bumps need to be washed and dried, you can use an old toothbrush for cleaning.

Since it is warmer indoors than outdoors, unopened buds will begin to open. Spruce trees will look like hedgehogs, and pine trees will look like fluffy Christmas trees. And if for the manufacture of crafts you need exactly unopened cones, then they must be placed in carpentry glue for 30 seconds, and then dried.

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

There is another way that will help open the cones - this is cooking. Boil them in boiling water for 30 minutes and then dry them. They will become fluffy and will no longer change shape.

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

If you do not like the shape of the cones, then this can be corrected. To do this, they must first be soaked in water, and then given the desired shape and tied with a thread. After drying, they will have the shape that you gave them.

For the manufacture of crafts, this material can be not only in in kind, it can be varnished, painted, 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 should be washed 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 Christmas tree is not difficult, you need desire and patience.

For its manufacture 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 Christmas tree. Cut out the circle and fold it in half. For a cone, you need one half of a circle. Connect the workpiece with glue. The craft cone is ready.
2. Now take the prepared cones and glue them to the cone. You need to start from the bottom and the largest. 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 cones and plasticine

This craft is very easy to make, even a very small child can handle it.

To make a Christmas tree you will need:

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

Manufacturing steps:

1. Paint the bump with paint using a brush. It can be done by a child.
2. From plasticine, make a Christmas tree stand. 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 up small multi-colored balls from plasticine. Attach them to the Christmas tree in different places.
5. With the help of cotton wool, you can depict snow.
6. From plasticine, you can mold a pike 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 Christmas trees from cones

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

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

Stages of work:

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

Fluffy beauty is ready!

Miniature scale tree

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

Manufacturing steps:

1. Cut the desired number of scales with scissors.
2. Make a Christmas tree cone out of cardboard.
3. Glue the scales to the base. It is necessary to glue in circles, starting from the bottom. Rows can be staggered or stacked on top of each other.
4. The top of the Christmas tree can be decorated with dried cloves.
5. After the glue dries, the Christmas tree needs to be painted, for example, in gold. For this procedure, spray paint is best suited.
6. Apply PVA glue to the ends of the scales and sprinkle them with sparkles.

The miniature beauty is ready!

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

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It’s not the first season that a do-it-yourself Christmas tree made of cones, decorated with dried slices of oranges, cinnamon sticks, star anise stars, decorative berries and sticks, has been in trend. Such a Christmas tree made of cones is all you need to create a fragrant new year mood home and holiday comfort. She so wants to smell and touch her!

Such a Christmas tree made of cones will become an unusual gift on the New Year and will take first place at the exhibition of New Year's crafts at school or kindergarten. Well, we will offer you 3 options on how to make a Christmas tree from cones.

We hope you have already collected enough cones for New Year's crafts, and if not, then rather run into the forest or park. Collect full packs of cones before the snow piles up too much. After all, they need to be sorted and dried. For a Christmas tree of cones and oranges, we will use the best cones.

1. A small Christmas tree made of cones for kindergarten
This idea is perfect for kindergarten or school. It is small and can be done with children.

For such an elegant Christmas tree made of cones, you will need:

• Large cones (from the south or cedar),
• Acrylic green paint,
• Flour,
• sequins,
• PVA glue,
• Beads or balls for jewelry,
• Gypsum,
• Water,
• Parchment.

Christmas tree made of cones step-by-step instruction:

• In a small bowl, mix 3 parts acrylic paint, 1 part flour, 1 part PVA glue.
• With this green mixture, paint the "branches" near the Christmas tree cones.
• Sprinkle everything with glitter and dry the craft.
• Glue balls or decorative beads.

To make the Christmas tree from the cone stand steadily, make a plaster stand. Dilute the plaster according to the instructions, mold the "cakes" and place them on a sheet of parchment. While the gypsum is soft, “plant” the cones on the Christmas tree stands. Then they can be glued if they stand unstable.

2. Do-it-yourself fragrant Christmas tree from spruce cones
A fragrant Christmas tree made of cones and oranges with berries is a wonderful decorative decoration for an apartment. Making it is a pleasure. And for this you will need:

• The basis for the Christmas tree in the form of a cone. It can be purchased ready-made from foam or rolled from wrapping paper.
• Dried orange slices.
• Cones.
• Decorative berries.
• Wire for a Christmas tree star.
• Glue.

How to dry orange slices for home decor

Christmas tree from cones master class

Roll a cone out of wrapping paper. We fix it with tape. Glue a layer of dried decorative orange circles.

Glue spruce cones on top, and then berries and spruce branches.

At the top we make an asterisk out of wire so that it is in the style of a Christmas tree made of cones.

Look our decorative christmas tree from fir cones and oranges will be like this.

3. Crafts from cones Christmas tree with flowers.
A very tender Christmas tree is obtained from cones with your own hands, if you use not only natural materials, but also flowers from foamiran when decorating. It can be roses, hydrangeas and cotton. A foam cone is used as a base, which is mounted on a wire or a metal rod and placed in a flower pot with alabaster. As soon as the alabaster dries, it will firmly hold the decorative Christmas tree.

So that the white foam does not shine through the decorative elements, we paint the cone or wrap it with thin kraft paper.

First, we glue large decorative elements - flowers and cones. Cones glue the base on top. You can go over them with a dry brush and white paint to make them look more wintery. We remove the excess height with wire cutters and glue it to the cone.

Next, glue the needles, cinnamon, berries and other decorative elements to the glue. They can even be pushed a little inside the cone of the Christmas tree if they peek out too much. Particular attention should be paid to the lower part of the composition, here we glue the details with an overhang to close the base. Then the edge of the cone craft will look interesting and neat from all sides.

A complete master class on how to create a fragrant Christmas tree from spruce cones with your own hands is here: