Lots of home decorations and funny toys to New Year's holiday can be made from ordinary pine and spruce cones.

On New Year's Eve, the first thing to do is put up a Christmas tree. Or maybe from cones? Surprise all your guests. To get such a Christmas tree, as in the photo below, glue the cardboard base cone and, starting from the bottom, attach small cones to it with hot glue. You can’t glue many rows at once, let it dry completely and continue to make a Christmas tree the next day.

For beauty and reliability, wrap such a Christmas tree with thick jute twine.

Pine cones and candles are a good combination.

Such Christmas trees-cones in candlesticks will decorate any table when there are lit candles nearby, holiday garlands and glasses filled with champagne.

Be sure to decorate the chandelier with beads and cones for the New Year holiday.

Such pendants made of cones will not wither, will not crumble, will not break.

The chandelier is always in the spotlight, besides, all the decorations that will be placed on it are well lit.

Ordinary cones from any tree, even completely untreated, are very decorative.

This material has many advantages over others:

• natural
• safe
• universal for any crafts
• free (if you just collect in a forest or park)
• easy to glue
• emits a pleasant pine scent
• keeps its shape well when dry

Checked: if ordinary pine cones are put in a transparent glass vase before the New Year, festive mood will surely come.

You can not be lazy and work with cones. One option is to soak the buds in bleach. Take the usual whiteness, do not dilute it and fill it with cones placed in a glass jar. Be sure to cover with a lid. Leave for 5-6 hours. Then take out the buds and dry. Should turn white.

You can paint the bumps with a thin brush with ordinary tooth powder, diluted to the consistency of thick sour cream. You need to paint the tips of the scales, then the bumps will be “in hoarfrost”.

Use spray paint to get silver, gold, or colored glitter buds.

Or take a stiff brush, use it to apply PVA glue to the cones and sprinkle generously with sparkles. You will see the result when the buds dry.

Try to make the cones multi-colored. With a brush, carefully paint the cone with different colors.

To paint the bumps, it is not necessary to go through each scale with a brush. There are several other ways. Here is one of them: take the bump by the edge with tweezers and lower it into the paint, then immediately remove it back, hold it for a while until the paint drains and put it to dry.

Use acrylic paint, but water-based paint will be cheaper for painting ceilings. It is easily diluted with water to the desired consistency. Pour the paint into several containers and add different color dyes in each of them, mix thoroughly. Paint the cones with these paints, let them dry. Dyes in small bottles can be bought at hardware stores.

Another way to color the buds is to fill a plate with paint and roll the bud over it, coloring only the tips of the scales.

Another way: you can quickly paint the bump with a foam sponge.

Colored cones look elegant in transparent vases.

But not only in vases, but also in baskets, cones look great.

This dish with colored cones reminded me of Easter colored eggs.

And look what unusual and elegant colored cones turn out if thin strips cut from tinsel are glued to them with a glue gun.

Thin sections of trees and cones can serve as the basis for creating New Year's candlesticks. But be sure to take care fire safety: Place the candles securely in glass or metal candle holders and secure the cones around with a glue gun.

Such christmas composition evokes romantic feelings.

Of course, if you put candles in deep jars, then there will certainly be nothing to be afraid of. Tie such “candlesticks” with a harsh thread and decorate with cones and needles.

If you have painted a lot of cones and do not know where to attach them, make a large candlestick.

And this luminous basket is just a New Year's garland, complete with cones and a bow, but how beautiful!

Use the buds naturally, bleach or dye, it's up to you. Any cones are a wonderful material for home decoration.

Do not forget to hang such toys on the Christmas tree.

Ordinary pine cones new year's eve can turn into lush turkeys or peacocks.

Aren't these owls amazing creatures? It is not difficult to make them, the main thing is to glue the eyes, and the nose can be made from plasticine.

And this, apparently, their mother is vigilantly watching her children.

And such a flock of small birds can settle in your apartment not only on New Year's Eve.

Look at this hedgehog, it is not difficult to make it. The main thing is to stock up on a basket of pine cones. Make the nose dark from the top plastic bottle, and cut out the eyes from white cardboard.

Try making flowers out of cones. To do this, disassemble a few cones into plates. On a cardboard circle with a glue gun, stick successively rows of plates in a circle.

Several of these gnomes can improve the mood not only for children, but also for adults. They can decorate a Christmas tree or tie it to a rope and make a garland.

And such little skiers will keep the gnomes company.

Do not miss the opportunity to do something with your children from natural materials. Such work is undeniably useful for both children and their parents. First, it is communication. Secondly, for the rest of his life, the child will remember that pleasant feeling when they made toys for the New Year together with mom or dad. Thirdly, this activity develops the motor skills of children's fingers. Fourthly, this work relieves stress, because a person calms down when working with natural material. You can continue to talk about the undoubted benefits, but it's time to finish the article. All the best!

DIY Christmas crafts from cones

The bumps are ecological material who is a pleasure to work with. Even a child can easily make New Year's crafts from them. In addition, you can save a lot on holiday decorations, toys and gifts for family and friends.

Also read: autumn crafts from cones with their own hands.

New Year's topiary from cones

In order to make a festive topiary from cones with your own hands, you will need the following tools and materials:

cones;
Steady stick for the trunk;
Paper;
Dye;
Leg-split;
Glue gun;
Scissors;
masking tape;
PVA glue;
Sackcloth;
Decorative branches of needles;
Flower pot;
Decor elements.

Making a topiary begins with a crown. To do this, you need to crumple several sheets of newspaper or paper well and form a neat ball. Then the ball must be pasted over with masking tape and covered with brown paint. After complete drying, use scissors to make a hole into which pour a little glue and insert a stable stick-trunk. Gently wrap the resulting trunk with twine on the lower end and secure its upper end with a glue gun. Now you can start attaching the cones to the ball. Glue the cones must start from the top. The tighter the cones are glued to each other, the better. If, in the process of work, gaps appear between the cones, they can be decorated with decorative coniferous twigs. It is better to decorate the pot with burlap, securing it with a glue gun. Then the pot must be filled with plaster. After the plaster is completely dry, New Year's topiary can be decorated with various ribbons, pebbles and garlands.

Christmas trees from cones

To get cute Christmas tree from cones, it will take about an hour of free time, a little patience and effort, and also:

cones;
Circle and cone made of green or brown cardboard;
Glue gun;
Scissors;
Spray can with gold or silver paint.

First you need to prepare the working material: clean it of debris, wash and dry the cones. Once the buds are dry, they can be spray-painted for a festive look. Although, this stage is not at all necessary if you want the Christmas tree to look more natural. Now you need to glue the cardboard circle to the base of the cone. When the base of the Christmas tree is ready, you can glue the cones. They should be glued in a circle, starting from the bottom and gradually moving up. Glue the pins first bigger size. The finished Christmas tree made of cones can be decorated with garlands and Christmas decorations.

Christmas wreath of cones

Christmas wreaths are traditionally made from fir branches. Modern craftswomen can make a similar craft from various improvised materials: Christmas balls, satin ribbons, paper flowers, festive tinsel and much more. A Christmas wreath of fir cones will help decorate any room or front door. For work it is necessary to prepare the following materials:

Fir cones;
Newspaper;
Fir branches;
A can of brown paint;
Scotch;
Scissors;
Glue gun;
Decor elements.

To make the base of the Christmas wreath, you need to roll the newspaper into a tube. Then make a bagel from the tube and fix it with a stapler. In order for the base not to lose its shape, it should be additionally wrapped with tape. The base can be painted with brown spray paint, so the craft will look natural. When the base is dry, it is not necessary to glue the spruce cones tightly on. The finished wreath must be decorated. To do this, you can use various beads, tinsel, garlands.

A ball of cones for the decoration of the New Year's interior

A ball of their cones is a great decorative element. New Year's interior. Such balls, hung around the apartment, create a festive atmosphere, and. In addition, they fill the space with a pleasant aroma. To make such a ball with your own hands, you need the following materials:

cones;
Balloon;
Glue;
Toilet paper;
Satin ribbon.

For work, you can use a ready-made basis, but it is much more pleasant to do everything yourself. For the base you need to inflate Balloon ik to the desired size. Paste it with toilet paper on top, which must first be moistened with a mixture of PVA glue and water, and leave to dry for 24 hours.

When the base is dry. It must be covered with brown paint so that the toilet paper does not show through the gaps between the bumps. Then you should carefully glue the cones to the base and attach a beautiful satin ribbon to the ball.

Helpful Hints

A cone is an excellent natural material from which you can make many different crafts.

One of the popular cone crafts is Christmas tree .

There are several ways to make a Christmas tree from a cone, and we have chosen the most interesting crafts on this topic for children and adults. Decorate your home and create a festive atmosphere in it.

On our website you will also find:

• 20 small DIY Christmas trees that will decorate any home
• How to make a Christmas tree with your own hands

Christmas tree made of cones. Popular option.

Almost any type of cones is suitable for such a Christmas tree.

You will need:

Thick paper or cardboard

Hot glue, superglue or liquid nails

Fir branches (artificial or natural)

Spray paint (optional)

Decorations (tinsel, artificial snow)

Lots of cones.

1. Make a cone out of cardboard.

2. Use glue to attach the cones to the cone.

3. If desired, you can paint the Christmas tree in any color using spray paint.

* Only need to paint outdoors, away from children, with a mask and preferably with goggles, because. Spray paints contain substances harmful to health.

4. Between the cones, you can glue fir branches and various decorations.

5. It remains to decorate the Christmas tree according to your taste.

Christmas tree made of cones (step by step instructions)

You will need:

Cardboard or thick paper

Wooden or carton supply (can do by yourself)

adhesive tape

Old newspaper

Hot glue or super glue

Decorations (garlands, tinsel)

Lots of cones.

1. Make a cone out of a thick sheet of paper or purchase a ready-made foam cone.

2. Fill in the inside paper cone old newspaper for more stability.

3. Cut off the top of the cone, and use duct tape to attach the cardboard circle to the top of the cone. This is done in order to make it easier to glue the cones on the top of the Christmas tree.

4. From cardboard, cut out a large circle - the base of the Christmas tree - and attach this circle to the cone (see image).

5. Start gluing the cones to the cone from the bottom up. To avoid large gaps, you can turn the bumps of each next row with the crown in the opposite direction and then glue them.

6. When all the cones are glued, you can decorate the Christmas tree with a garland and / or tinsel.

Small Christmas tree made of cones (photo-instruction)

For one Christmas tree you will need:

PVA glue

Artificial snow or white (silver) sparkles

Mini pompoms (can be replaced with multi-colored beads).

Here is another version of a similar tree

Small Christmas tree made of cones (photo)

You will need:

wine cork

Knife and scissors

PVA glue

Hot glue or super glue

Glitter (optional).

1. Trim lower part bumps to make it flatter.

2. Cut the wine cork into 2 equal parts - these will be the bases for the Christmas trees.

3. Glue 1 cone to each base.

4. Apply a little PVA glue to each cone and sprinkle them with salt. You can add glitter.

How to make a big Christmas tree from cones (master class)

You will need:

Wooden slats and wire (to make a conical frame)

Cardboard or plywood (for making the base of the Christmas tree)

Hot glue or super glue

Spray paint (any suitable color)

Jewelry (tinsel, bows, toys)

Lots of cones

1. Create a wooden frame with wooden slats and wire. Make it stable by adding a base of several sheets of thick cardboard or plywood.

2. Buds can be glued to the frame or attached to the wire (using small pieces of thin wire), or both.

3. Decorate the Christmas tree as you wish and taste. You can add spray or acrylic paint, tinsel, garlands, bows and / or small Christmas decorations.

Here is another version of a large cone tree that uses a large thick wire plant frame (you can make your own and just buy it):

Craft "Christmas tree" from cones

You will need:

Styrofoam cone

Spray paint (shine effect in this example)

What can create a New Year's atmosphere on a par with real live Christmas trees? Cones. Spruce and pine. From such simple natural materials you can make beautiful and stylish jewelry for the New Year's beauty, and even the trees themselves, and not in mini format. We will tell you further about how to make original New Year's crafts from cones and demonstrate everything in detail using four master classes as an example.

Master class number 1: Christmas tree from pine cones

By collecting a lot of cones and different ones, you can make a wonderful Christmas tree out of them. To the main thing holiday decoration looked beautiful and magnificent, you need to choose open cones, but at the same time strong and whole.

materials

To create a Christmas tree from pine cones with your own hands, you will need:

• the cones themselves;
• hot glue;
• thermal gun;
• cardboard;
• scissors;
• tinsel and toys;
• flowerpot;
• paint in a can.

Step 1. Decide on the dimensions of the future Christmas tree and cut out the cardboard base with scissors of the appropriate size.

Step 2. Sort all the cones by size and clean them of dust.

Step 3. Start laying out your Christmas tree from cones. Lay out the source materials in tiers in a circle. Start with the largest buds. Attach the tiers to each other with hot glue.

Step 4. At the very top of the tree, fasten one cone vertically.

Now your Christmas tree from the cones is ready. You can simply place it on a table on a cardboard base or leave it standing on the floor. You can use hot glue to attach the cardboard to a flower pot that has been previously weighted with gravel. To make the tree look festive, decorate it with tinsel, toys or sweets.

You can make the Christmas tree a little unusual. To do this, paint it with spray paint. Choose any paint color, the main thing is that it is in harmony with the interior of the room. As a decoration, you can use berries and small figurines of birds.

Master class number 2: do-it-yourself Christmas toy from a cone

An ordinary cone can be an excellent replacement for the New Year's Christmas ball. She will need to give a little New Year's gloss, but even with such a decor, such a decoration will look very harmonious on the Christmas tree.

materials

To make a Christmas tree toy from a cone with your own hands, make sure you have:

• the cone itself;
• hot glue;
• wooden beads;
• tapes;
• twine;
• scissors;
• varnish.

Step 1. To make the craft look beautiful, the bump must be washed well, blotted with paper towels and allowed to dry completely.

Step 2. Take a wooden bead and glue it with hot glue to the base of the cone.

Step 3. Cut off a small piece of twine, thread the end through the bead and tie a knot in the cord. This will be a mount for which a Christmas tree toy can be hung on a New Year's tree.

Step 4. To make the bump look aesthetically pleasing, you can cover its surface with varnish in a spray can. After covering the bump, let it dry thoroughly.

Step 5. Decorate the bump with a small ribbon bow. You can tie it to a bead or place a bow on a drop of hot glue.

The original Christmas tree toy made of cones is ready.

Master class number 3: a mini-tree from a cone

If you don’t have time to make a big Christmas tree from cones, but you want to decorate your desktop or bedside table with a symbolic souvenir, you can make a small Christmas tree from just one cone.

materials

To make a mini Christmas tree from a cone, you will need:

• cone;
• small clay pot;
• paint in a can;
• foil or plastic star;
• tassel;
• glue for decoupage;
• rag;
• sequins;
• hot glue.

Step 1. The first step is to prepare the cone itself for work. To do this, you need to clean it from dust. Then cover the bump with spray paint. You can choose any color, but if you want the mini Christmas tree to look like a real one, give preference to green shades. In this case, it was given a festive gloss by painting with dark green paint with mother-of-pearl tints.

Step 2. After painting the bump, let it dry thoroughly.

Step 3. Attach an aluminum or plastic star to the top of the miniature Christmas tree with hot glue.

Step 4. To create the effect of sprinkling the paws of the Christmas tree with snow or frost, cover the tips of the cone with decoupage glue and sprinkle with silver sparkles on top. After the glue dries, shake off the excess glitter.

Step 5. Insert the finished cone into a small clay pot. For reliability, you can fix it with hot glue. Your miniature version Christmas tree ready!

Master class number 4: do-it-yourself Christmas tree cones

Cones can make very delicate decorations for the Christmas tree. To do this, it is necessary not only to pick up beautiful and whole cones, but also to decorate them correctly. In this master class, the cones will be covered with glitter and complemented by transparent decorations, which together will create the illusion of a cold frosty day.

materials

To decorate the cones on the Christmas tree with your own hands, prepare:

• well-opened buds;
• screws with rings at the end;
• glue for decoupage;
• silver sequins;
• plastic container.

Step 1. Clean the collected cones from dust and make sure that all its parts are intact and nothing falls anywhere.

Step 2. Take a screw with a ring on the end and carefully screw it into the base of the bump. If you find it difficult to screw in the screw, carefully drill a hole in the bump with a drill with an appropriately sized drill bit.

Step 3. Dip the brush in decoupage glue and brush it over all the protruding parts of the cone.

Step 4. Pour silver glitter into an empty plastic container and gently roll the bump in them until the glue dries. Let the glue and glitter set well and then brush away any excess glitter with a dry brush.

Your Christmas decoration from the cones is ready. Now you can attach a silver colored ribbon to it to hang the pine cone from the leg of the tree. It would be nice to complement such a Christmas tree decor with a plastic garland imitating Swarovski crystals. You can use similar toys as a festive decoration on a chandelier.

The ideal option for creating New Year's toys are the cones of spruce and pine trees. Their advantage is that they have different shape, color, texture, perfectly emphasize the New Year's atmosphere, look elegant. Therefore, it will not be difficult to figure out how the future toy will look like.

The whole family can work on creating toys, and this will bring children and parents together. An additional advantage would be to use the gifts of nature for decor - all kinds of twigs, needles, acorns, leaves, etc. From all this you can make a whole collection of New Year's toys.

DIY Christmas toys

Everyone knows that decorating cones is a creative and inexpensive process. It does not need any special equipment, and all the material can be found in any park where pine trees grow.

It is best to use fallen cones, because those that are still growing on trees remain juicy, may not dry out and become moldy. In addition, the collection process is very exciting and useful.

Preparation for work

For work we need:

• Glue gun, scissors, wire cutters and pliers, paint brushes, varnishes, paints.
• Directly the raw material itself (cones, twigs, acorns, and so on).
• Scraps of fabric, leather, (you can use natural and artificial).
• Buttons, beads, beads, satin ribbon - in general, everything that can be used for small decor.

Before you start working, the cones must be prepared. To begin with, they need to be cleaned of debris and earth, if necessary, washed and dried (this is done away from heating appliances, in a well-ventilated area). If they turned out to be unripe and not fully opened, they are placed in a slightly preheated oven with the door ajar. This is done so that moisture comes out of them and they fully open.

Blanks can be left in the form in which they are, or resort to their partial or complete staining. Can also be decorated with decorative elements such as glitter or artificial snow. Everything will depend on your imagination.

Buds in their natural state are beautiful on their own, but if you need to make any color accent in the decor, you will have to resort to staining. Their structure allows excellent absorption and retention of paint. You can even paint the cones with gouache, but it is short-lived and can soon peel off and get dirty. Therefore, acrylic paints are best suited for decorating toys.

For you to have the perfect christmas toy, you need to have the following components:

• Kit acrylic paints both in jars and in tubes, so that you can apply individual touches or create textures;
• Aerosol paints (automotive enamels are also suitable for this - they fit beautifully, tightly and evenly and dry very well);
• Aerosol paints in metallic shades. Their peculiarity lies in expressive special effects.
• Finishing varnish in aerosol package. For an easier, faster and more even application.
• Varnishes and dyes with the effect of frosty coating, with sparkles, artificial snow and the like.

With their help, you will decorate the cone in a very short time.

Since varnishes and paints have a very specific pungent smell, work with them must be carried out in very well ventilated rooms or outdoors. It is expected that several layers of application will be required. In this case, it must be borne in mind that each layer must be dry. Work with the painted material continues only if all layers have dried, otherwise the pattern or coating may be spoiled.

So, let's take a look at how you can make a simple Christmas tree decoration with your own hands..

Master class of Christmas decorations from cones

The big plus of this master class is that it can be done by the whole family and it will be an exciting event for all its members. Be sure to involve your children, because creating crafts is very useful and interesting activity. It develops motor skills of hands, improves imagination, teaches accuracy.

In order to make toys for the Christmas tree from cones with our own hands, we need:

• Cones of different sizes;
• Glue "Moment";
• Beads of small size, any color;
• Gouache, brushes;
• Wire and satin ribbon.

We paint cones in green color and wait for them to dry. With the help of a thin brush and white paint along the edges of the cone, we imitate snow. Using glue, glue the beads or cover the scales with sparkles. We got miniature decorative Christmas trees covered with snow. From a piece of wire we make a loop, glue it to the top of the cone. The wire can be wrapped satin ribbon or rain.

Christmas ball

Surely, being in the club, everyone saw a large luminous ball that rotates under the ceiling. But after all, such a ball can be made with your own hands from cones for an atmospheric party on the eve of the New Year.

For this we need:

1. Balloon;
2. Toilet paper;
3. PVA glue;
4. Brown paint;
5. Lots of cones;
6. Ribbon.

You can, of course, buy a ball blank in a specialized store for needlework, but you can also make it yourself. On an inflated balloon right size winding toilet paper dipped in a mixture of water and PVA glue (2 to 1). We give it a day to dry. Then we paint it in Brown color and again wait until the paint dries. You need to make sure that everything is well painted over and grey colour paper will not show through between the bumps. Avoiding large indents, glue them one at a time.

To make the ball look festive, you can paint over it with sparkles or wrap it with a garland. We hang it from the ceiling or attach it to a chandelier.

New Year's gnomes

If you wish, you can make absolutely any toy out of cones, for example, gnomes, which kids really like, especially since it is not difficult at all. As the body of the gnome use fir cone, and it is best to leave it in in kind and don't color anything.

In order to make the head of the figure, use a plastic or foam ball. With the help of a marker or paints, you can draw a face for him. Handles, legs are made of wire, which is then covered with fabric. Clothes can be sewn by hand or sewing machine, and shoes made of leather or thick felt. If you also connect fantasy, then you can make gnome girls with funny pigtails from threads.

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