The beautiful Advent season is approaching and you'll immediately get into the crafting mood again. If you are currently looking for beautiful craft ideas for the Christmas season, you can try out one of the following instructions. We have found some Christmas crafts for which you mainly use cones. So if you like doing Christmas crafts with natural materials, you've come to the right place. Take a look at our ideas for crafting with pine cones for Advent and use the instructions to create a great decoration yourself that you can use to make your home Christmassy every year. The decoration ideas are suitable for both indoors and outdoors.
Make a pretty tree with pine cones
Thisattractive decorationis undoubtedly reminiscent of a spherical boxwood, except that this variant does not require any care. Get a Styrofoam ball, lots of pins, glue and cones to make the tree with pine cones for Advent. You can buy pine cones or, even better, collect them yourself while taking a walk in the forest or park. The tree itself is very simple to make. It just takes a little more time. Stick the pin on the tip of the pine cone, then stick it into the Styrofoam ball. You can also paint the Styrofoam ball brown in advance to conceal any gaps between the cones. You can now display the finished ball in a bucket and give it a frosty look with a little white paint as desired.
Make Advent decorationswith cones and artificial snow
You can use cones for a variety of decorations. These can be created as a basis for other projects, so to speak. You still need glue and fake snow and paper plates. Put some glue in one of the plates and the fake snow in another. Now proceed in principle as with breading: first dip the cone into the glue and then into the artificial snow and let it dry on a surface. By the way, you can also use coconut flakes instead of artificial snow.
Make gnomes
Feel free to combine the cones with other popular materials. Felt, for example, is one such material that is also easy to work with. Decorate your home with such cute elves! To do this, first prepare the felt elements shown. You use the triangles to sew or glue the hats, the stripes as a scarf, the heart-shaped parts for the feet and the rest as gloves. Glue all of these elements to the pine cones with hot glue and you can then set up the figures. They're also great as a gift, don't you think?
DIY Christmas decorations
To make this beautiful star pendant look even more interesting, you can use two different types of cones. Otherwise, all you need to make crafts with pine cones for Advent is glue. Glue three of the smaller types of cones together. It is particularly easy to work with hot glue. Then use the larger cones to create the star tips. The pendants as craft ideas for Christmas are not just suitable for decorating the Christmas tree. They can also be used in other areas. Decorate the table, window, door or wall.
Mini Christmas trees made from cone scales
You can even create small Christmas trees with cones. For this purpose, you don't use the whole pine cones as with the other projects, but only the seeds. You simply cut these off with scissors and then sort them by size. In addition, you will also need a cone made of cardboard or paper, which you can also make yourself if necessary. Now start attaching the seeds to the bottom edge of the cone with hot glue. Once you have finished one row, move on to the next one, with each new row slightly overlapping the previous one. The seeds can become smaller towards the top. Smaller versions are particularly desirable for the tip in order to be able to create a row without the cardboard underneath being visible.
Cute owls
How about this idea for a Christmas craft? For this purpose, pine cones are simply “stuffed” with white cotton wool to create the feathers of a snowy owl. The easiest way to create the face and wings is to use paper or felt and googly eyes. Really easy, isn't it? Get started right away if you feel like making these owls with pine cones for Advent.
Make a garland
A garland is extremely easy to make, with which you can design your home for the first Advent. Whether hanging freely in the room, on the wall or for the Christmas tree, the garland will without a doubt be a real eye-catcher, especially thanks to the golden accents on the seeds. Using a brush, decorate the cones with gold paint. As soon as this has dried, insert such eyelets into the cones; these are used for hanging. Thread twine through the eyelet and tie a knot to keep the pine cone in place. Otherwise the cones would all gather at the lowest point when hanging. All that remains is to decide where it should hang.
DIY Advent wreath with pine cones
Our final Christmas craft ideas are one of the most important decorative elements during Advent. This is of course what is meantbeautiful Advent wreath, which delights us with its pleasant candlelight. It doesn't always have to be a complicated arrangement. Simply use a Styrofoam ring that you decorate with pine cones. To design, you can choose the technique from our first example with the pins or you can simply stick the cones in place with glue. Then place the four candles in the middle, which you can then label or provide with such labels.
Alternatively, you can simply place the candles on a Christmas plate and place pine cones around them. Use the cones in their natural color or paint them with transparent or colored varnish, with gold paint, glitter or decorate them with artificial snow as above. The choice is yours!
