A lot of home decorations and funny toys for the New Year 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 tree cones in candlesticks will decorate any table when there are lit candles, festive garlands and glasses filled with champagne nearby.

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, a festive mood will certainly 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 colors of dyes to 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 of fire safety: place the candles securely in glass or metal candlesticks and fix the bumps around with a glue gun.

Such a New Year's 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 on 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 a nose from the top of a dark plastic bottle, and cut out 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 make something with natural materials with your children. 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!

In the world, probably, only babies do not know what cones are. This natural material serves not only to decorate trees, but also is the source for many Hand-Made crafts. Having given quite a bit of time, you can make colorful products from cones at home and transform the interior with designer crafts. And also to make collective compositions from spruce, cedar, pine cones, involving the whole family in the work. Having given quite a bit of time to creativity, you will plunge into the magical world of a fairy tale. If you have a rich imagination, then it will not be difficult for you to make any craft. In the meantime, we have selected the most popular songs.

What can be made from cones

Cones can not only be combined with interior items, but also create stand-alone decorations. You can also always make funny animals, and the process of creating products will intrigue not only a child, but also an adult.

With the use of cones, you can create:

1. Decorative compositions that will not only add coziness and New Year's atmosphere, but also refresh the interior. The category of such crafts includes: a wreath on the door, ikebana, topiary, candlestick.
2. New Year's products. Here the designer's fantasy can unfold in all directions, because you can start with a small composition or even make a tree from cones.
3. Animal figures. Teddy bear, hedgehog, squirrel, goblin, penguins, snowy owl - a set of such heroes will not leave any child indifferent. And the manufacturing process will give a lot of pleasure and reward you with a charge of good mood for the whole day.

Cone processing

Before you start making crafts from cones, you should carefully process the cones:

1. Contaminated material should be washed and dried naturally.
2. Clean less contaminated material with a brush.
3. Unripe and unopened cones should be placed in a slightly heated oven with the door ajar. You will notice that moisture will evaporate from wet buds, and unopened buds will gradually open in the form of spruce branches.

If, according to the idea, closed cones are needed, then in order to avoid opening the petals, you need to keep them in carpentry glue for 30 seconds. To transform, soak the cones in water, and then tie with a thread, giving the desired shape. Craft materials can be left in their natural form or covered with artificial snow, varnish, paint. Everything will depend on the intended craft.

Christmas tree made of cones

One of the most popular crafts around the holidays is the Christmas tree. Making it is easy enough. Consider 2 options.

For work we need:

• cones;
• cardboard;
• glue;
• coniferous branches or tinsel.

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

1. Make a cone-shaped base out of cardboard.
2. Glue the cones to the cone at intervals.
3. Attach coniferous twigs or tinsel between the cones.
4. The Christmas tree is ready. It remains to decorate the New Year's beauty.

Materials for making Christmas tree crafts from cones:

• cones;
• cardboard;
• stand;
• newspaper or paper;
• Super glue.

Step-by-step instruction:

1. From cardboard, make the base for our Christmas tree in the form of a cone.
2. For good stability of the structure, put newspaper or paper inside the structure.
3. Cut out a circle from cardboard or use a wooden stand and attach a cone to it.
4. Glue the cones to the cone from top to bottom. To avoid large gaps, turn the cones of each subsequent row in the opposite direction.
5. If you have glued all the cones, then the main part of the craft is finished.

Cone decorations

Increasingly, in houses you can find decorations from cones made for the New Year or Christmas holidays with your own hands. Mostly these are pine or spruce garlands, or trees in pots.

When working with cones, it is very important to note their advantages:

• natural material without chemical impurities;
• pleasant coniferous smell;
• saving money by making decorations from cones.

If desired, you can make almost any toy out of cones, you just need to apply a little imagination and sometimes patience. Making Christmas tree ornaments is a great idea for a craft. After all, you not only make these decorations with your children, but also then dress up a New Year's beauty or decorate interior items with products. From the most elementary crafts, you can make a gnome.

Step-by-step instructions for making a gnome:

1. Leave the bump unchanged, and take it as the basis of the gnome's body.
2. Take a chestnut as the basis of the head. Then glue on the beard.
3. Legs and arms are made of fabric and stuffed with padding polyester or cotton.
4. Clothes are sewn from felt.
5. For dwarf girls, a braid of thread should be braided.

The cones, elongated in shape, can serve as decorations in the house or become a wonderful decoration for the Christmas tree. To make exclusive ties for curtains, take a velvet fabric and fasten at the ends along a pine cone.

Another wonderful decoration of our decor can be a New Year's colorful garland of cones. The creation of this craft will not take you much time.

For the garland you will need:

• cones (the number depends on the length of the garland);
• glue;
• rope;
• spray paint (you can use any paint);
• sequins.

Step-by-step instruction:

1. Prepare the cones for coloring by first cleaning them.
2. Spray paint on the bumps.
3. Sprinkle with glitter afterwards. Wait a little while the material dries.
4. Take the rope and make marks on it where you will place the bumps.
5. Leave 10 cm of string to tie the garland.
6. Put a drop of glue on the base of the cone and glue it to the rope. Hold the bud firmly for 5 seconds for a firm grip.
7. Do the same for the rest of the cones.
8. The garland is ready.

Also, handmade crafts in the form of snowflakes made from cones made by hand will look very elegant as a New Year's decoration at home.

For making snowflakes, it is better to use spruce or long pine cones.

Take 6 cones and glue the bottom sides together. The center of our craft can be decorated with a small paper snowflake or lace. Within 5 minutes, our snowflake is ready.

Christmas wreath of cones

Preparing your home for the holidays begins at the doorstep. The autumn framing of the door is replaced by winter motifs and takes you to a winter fairy tale. Making a New Year's wreath is not at all difficult.

First you need to cut out the base of the wreath in the form of a circle from plastic, cardboard, flexible branches or wire. Glue small rings on the cones, pre-select a decor for the cones, or leave it in its original form. Put the cones on the wire by stringing. At the end of the work, twist the edges of the wire and decorate with a large bow.

Newspapers can also be the basis for a festive wreath. Rewind them into a ring and secure with threads in a circle. If there is organza or other material at home, wrap the resulting frame with them. To imitate spruce branches, use a green or light green rain. Glue the cones to the rain and add plastic fruits to the composition.

You can buy a ready-made base for a wreath in stores. Decorate it with acorns, nuts, cones and create your own individual design. You can decorate with any improvised materials: paint, sparkles, ribbons, beads, beads.

How to make a beautiful ball of cones

You can diversify the decor of your interior by making an unusual ball of cones and acorns. It is quite difficult to do it, but if you follow our instructions, then you will cope with the task.

For the base of the ball, make a circle of paper, crumpling it like when making a snowball. Another option for the base can be a trash bag. You can make a ball shape by stuffing the bag with cotton wool, padding polyester or newspaper. The opening of the package should be closed or sealed. The basis for the craft is ready.

We proceed to the main composition and glue the cones, evenly distributing them around the perimeter. After natural drying of the product, the composition is ready.

The final stage is the coating of the ball with varnish or snow. The finished product can be put in a pot or vase, or simply attached with a thread to the ceiling.

Topiary from cones

A good idea for creating an unusual interior is trimmed trees - topiaries. Sometimes they are called trees of happiness and good luck.

To implement the idea you will need:

• cones;
• gypsum or sponge;
• clay or plastic pot;
• tree branch;
• newspaper ball or flower sponge;
• threads;
• spray paint.

Step-by-step instruction:

1. Form a ball of newspaper and wrap it with thread.
2. Apply glue to the base of the cone, and glue it to the ball as tightly as possible.
3. Glue the rest of the cones onto the ball. Try to choose buds that are similar in size.
4. Sharpen the end of the pine branch and make a hole in the bottom of the ball.
5. Fix the branch in the ball with glue.
6. Paint the resulting ball with paint. The ball is decorated with dried leaves, branches, beads, colored ribbons.
7. Prepare the plaster for work: dilute it in a pot, indenting 3-5 cm from the edge.
8. Insert the branch with the ball into the gypsum solution and fix until dry.
9. Mask the plaster with small cones or moss.

Making a candlestick from cones

For giving romance and creating a New Year's composition at the festive table, a lit candle in a beautiful candlestick is responsible. The radiance of festive lights will not only add coziness, but also diversify the interior. Even a child can make this accessory with their own hands. The main decor material is cones, and other materials are selected depending on availability.

To create a festive candle you will need:

• cones, acorns, chestnuts;
• glue;
• cardboard circle;
• spray paint.

Lay out all the decoration elements on the substrate and paint. Staining should be carried out with open windows or on the street. Glue a candle and prepared decorations in the center of the cardboard circle. A branch of a coniferous tree will look original in the composition.

Another option for creating a candle can be decorating finished candlesticks with cones, twigs. Unusual candles are obtained from glass jars. To do this, pour sugar or artificial snow on the bottom of the jar. Decorate the top with lace and attach a few cones. Treat the composition with an aerosol with snow.

How to make a basket of cones

To make an unusual basket of cones, use our tips.

Materials for creating a basket of cones:

• cones;
• wire, fishing line;
• glue;
• cardboard.

The bottom should begin to be tied from the central cone, and so connect 8-16 in a circle, wrapping it with wire or fishing line.

For the second row of buds, make a smaller circle. For a high basket, make 3 circles.

Connect 2 circles of cones together with glue and wire. Make the handle of the basket out of wire and decorate with cones. Weave the handle alternately, turning the cones.

Animals from cones

Engaging in artistic creativity is equally useful for both adults and children. Each work uses the principle of combination and play of contrasts. After all, the difference in color, shape and size dictate their own rules in the craft.

Teddy bear made of cones

Materials:

• fir cone;
• 4 half-opened pine cones;
• a large open pine cone with a round top;
• acorn caps;
• alder cones;
• awl;
• glue;
• scissors.

Step-by-step instruction:

1. An oblong pine cone is the body of a bear cub.
2. Apply glue to the parts of the scales to be joined.
3. Connect the parts of the product so that the scales of one cone fix the scales of the other.
4. Make paws out of pine cones.
5. Make the hind legs of the bear cub from larger bumps compared to the front ones.
6. The head of the product will be an open pine cone.
7. From the caps of acorns, make ears and a nose and attach tightly with glue.
8. From black pepper, make eyes and the tip of the nose.

If a bag of cones has accumulated in the house, then creating a big bear is right for you. The size of the toy is selected according to the number of cones.

Make a bear frame from papier-mâché or polyurethane foam. Stuff the frame with paper, and put heavier material in the legs for stability. Make the top layer of cones and secure with glue. Ears, muzzle make from pompoms.

Hedgehog from cones

You can also make a beautiful hedgehog from cones by adding plasticine.

For the hedgehog you will need:

• cones;
• plasticine of several colors.

In order to make a hedgehog, all actions are performed in turn according to the instructions:

1. Take plasticine and blind an elongated muzzle.
2. Attach it to the base of the cone.
3. From a different color of plasticine, make a nose, eyes, paws.
4. Fix them on the craft.
5. Additionally, make ears out of plasticine and attach them.
6. The craft is ready.

Nature has always inspired people to be creative, because everything in it is subordinate to it. Having shown a little imagination, you can create not only toys, but also entire mini-cities from natural materials. And the process of creation will unite the family and give everyone the chance to show their design skills.

78 photos of cone craft ideas

The abundance of ready-made Christmas tree decorations and various items for decoration saturated the market for some time, and the art of creating various “homemade” interior gizmos for the New Year holiday slowly began to be forgotten. But gradually, in the last decade, we were covered by the world's love for "handmade" - handmade products. I had to urgently remember the skills acquired in childhood and generate new ideas.

To create New Year's decor and Christmas decorations, it is most logical to use such natural material as cones - spruce and pine. They blend beautifully, naturally with popular Christmas trees, are easy to work with, look elegant, and can be used for a variety of purposes. Kids really like cones, so you can work with them with the whole family, this will only benefit the closeness of parents and children.

Materials and tools for work

Decorating cones is a creative process, but not at all expensive, it does not require very expensive equipment, and the main material for work can be collected in any park where Christmas trees and pine trees grow. You need to pick up fallen cones - those growing on trees are still too juicy and may not dry out completely, so the finished work can fail - become moldy or acquire an unpleasant odor. In addition, the collection of cones is an exciting, useful and environmentally correct activity.

In addition to cones, for home crafts, you can use acorns, chestnuts, various berries, which have a beautiful color and retain their shape and color when dried.

To work with such materials, you will need the following tools and accessories:

• Glue gun and a supply of special glue in sticks. If the work is carried out with young children, adults will have to glue or buy small light appliances for the kids, explaining in advance that their “stings” are very hot and you can get burned if you are not careful and careful.
• Scissors for cutting out details.
• Wire cutters.
• Pliers.
• Brushes.

Necessary materials:

• Vegetable raw materials (cones, acorns, chestnuts, berries, bark, branches, leaves, and so on).
• Trimmings of fabric, preferably with non-shrinking edges (cloth, felt, dense interlining, and so on), pieces of leather and suede - artificial or natural.
• Buttons, beads, beads, ribbons, small artificial flowers and leaves, braid, lace and similar small decor.
• Wire, ready-made frames, coasters, plastic tubes, wooden sticks and more.
• Paints.
• Lucky.
• Decorative coatings.

In the process of work, you may need ordinary sewing trivia, as well as glue for fabric and paper, a pencil and paper for marking and making patterns, and much more that is usually at hand in any home.

How to process cones for crafts

Before starting work, you need to prepare cones for crafts. Heavily soiled can be washed and dried away from heat sources, in a well-ventilated place. The rest can simply be thoroughly cleaned of earth and debris with a stiff brush, shake off and, if necessary, dry.

If the cones are collected unripe and not fully opened, they can be placed in a slightly heated oven, be sure to leave the door ajar to let the moisture out. This is necessary in order for the cones to open, the fruits to spill out, and the open scales to resemble spruce branches. This should also be done with cones in order to get rid of possible moisture in them and protect them from damage to the finished product.

Blanks can be left in their natural form, partially or completely painted, varnished and decorated with decorative materials, such as artificial snow. The appearance and effectiveness of the future thing depends on your imagination and ingenuity.

Means and methods for painting cones

Spruce and pine cones are beautiful on their own, but if the products involve the inclusion of a color component, they will have to be dyed. Since the surface of the cones is porous and matte, it perfectly absorbs and retains paint. You can paint them with anything, even ordinary gouache or tempera, but such a coating will be short-lived and will become dirty. It is best to choose more resistant paints, such as acrylics. Ideally, for work, you should have the following components:

• A set of acrylic dyes in jars or tubes for applying individual strokes or creating textures.
• Paints in aerosols (you can use car enamels - they give a beautiful dense and uniform coating and dry fairly quickly).
• Aerosol metallic paints in different colors. With their help, you can achieve particularly expressive special effects.
• Finishing varnishes, it is also most convenient to use aerosol packages, with their help the varnish is applied easily, quickly and evenly.
• Dyes and varnishes for creating special effects - with a "frosty" coating, with sparkles, artificial snow and so on. Using them is one of the easiest ways to decorate a pinecone, even if you're short on time to work.

The technology of working with paints and varnishes, especially aerosol and automotive ones, which have a pungent odor, provides for their use in ventilated non-residential premises or in the open air. It may be necessary to apply several coats of coating, with each previous coat being completely dry. It is possible to continue working with the painted material only after all layers have completely dried, otherwise the drawing or coating already made may be damaged.

Christmas toys and decorations from spruce and pine cones

With a certain diligence and accuracy, you can make almost any toy out of cones. Kids really like gnomes, and making them is not at all difficult.

• To do this, a fir cone is used as the body of a gnome, while it is best to leave it natural.
• The head of the figurine can be made from a plastic or foam ball, draw a face on it and glue a beard from threads.
• The legs and arms are made of wire wrapped with padding polyester and covered with fabric (you can use tights, including colored children's ones).
• Clothes are sewn by hand or on a sewing machine, and shoes are made of leather or thick felt, cloth or thin felt, dense interlining can be put on caps.

If you wish, you can show your imagination and make gnome girls with funny braids of thread sticking out from under a bright cap.

Long fir cones can be used as spectacular interior decorations and Christmas decorations. To connect them with hot glue, attach ribbons and tie them together with a large beautiful bow or lay the braid with a rosette. Such a pendant is hung on walls, doors, a Christmas tree, or even used as New Year's tiebacks for curtains, decorations on the corner of a tablecloth.

Cones give a huge scope for imagination. With them, you can create many decorative compositions, decorate the table, make children's and Christmas figurines, make elegant wreaths on the front doors, elegant candlesticks and topiaries, many figurines and cute little souvenirs.

New Year's candlesticks from cones

One of the easiest projects for beginners is to create decorative and truly Christmas candlesticks. They can be made from small and large buds, as well as from a mixture of various plant and artificial materials. To make a candlestick from small cones, you will need the following materials:

• A large candle or a small glass candlestick with a candle.
• Cardboard stand, flat saucer or plate, small tray or box lid with low sides.
• Accurate decor - beads, beads, rhinestones, tinsel, berries, dry or artificial flowers, and so on.

A candle or candlestick is set on the base, and the prepared, painted or varnished cones are carefully glued with hot glue, stacking them so as to get a beautiful ring composition. For additional attractiveness, you can use various decorative elements and details, including flowers, twigs and small decorations in the composition.

In order to make the product more voluminous and expressive, the tips of the scales need to be painted over with colored paint that contrasts with the color of the cone. For the same purpose, you can make a beautiful golden or silver coating, use artificial snow, sparkles, or even stick rhinestones or beads on the tips of the scales of cones.

From large cones with a loose core, you can make small candles that look beautiful on a festive table between dishes and glasses. To do this, you need to cut off the upper narrow part of the cone with wire cutters, and in the remaining part, align the area under the candle as much as possible.

If the surface still turns out to be very uneven, you can fill it with liquid wax or stearin from a melted candle, wait for it to harden and glue a decorative candle on it. You can use tablet candles for low lights, or you can use tall, narrow candles for candlesticks.

A long and thick “gypsy” needle is stuck into the base of the cone, on which a candle is then carefully and carefully pricked. To prevent the finished candle from turning over, you need to make a flat and even base at the bottom of the cone, glue it with hot glue on a small saucer, best of all on a heavy glass rosette for jam.

You can decorate the finished composition for every taste - leave it as it is, paint, decorate with tinsel or small details, berries or artificial, dry flowers.

Decorative Christmas trees from cones

For those who do not want to purchase a live Christmas tree or put up an artificial tree, as well as to decorate offices, classrooms, public spaces, corridors and rooms in houses and apartments, you can use elegant and simple Christmas trees made of cones as a spectacular decoration.

Large cones are almost ready-made Christmas trees. They need to be placed in a beautiful stand, for example, a spectacularly painted or draped clay or plastic flower pot, a jar of cream or any other cosmetics, low capacity.

You can fill it with a piece of foam or even crumpled paper, and glue a circle of thick cardboard on top.

A beautiful large cone with open scales is painted green, sprinkled with silver or gold paint, artificial snow is sprayed on the edges, and after drying it is decorated with elegant beads and tinsel.

If there are a lot of cones, you can make a larger Christmas tree that can be placed on the table. To create it, you need a foundation. You can buy it in a specialty store in the floristry department, or you can make it yourself by gluing a strong cone of thick cardboard and fixing it on a plate or tray.

The cones are glued to the base with hot glue, or they are pierced onto a cone of foamed "oasis" using wire or pins stuck into the base of the cones. Work begins from the bottom, carefully attaching the cones. The appearance of the product depends on the laying method - small pine or long spruce cones glued in a spiral will set a clear rhythm, and laid out randomly will give a more informal, modern look to the product.

Additional decorations are added according to the taste of the creator of the product. Just don't forget to top the Christmas tree with a smart star on top.

Wreath of cones for the New Year

Festive decoration of the home begins with the front door. Before the holidays, I want to decorate them more elegantly, replacing the autumn wreath, which has already lost its relevance, with its winter version. You can stick cones on a different base - use a ring from a floral oasis for dried flowers, a foam product woven from flexible branches, or make a base for a wreath yourself, taking thick cardboard, a stapler and several layers of newsprint for the required volume.

Before starting work, it is worth making a sketch, and then laying out all the selected components of the composition. This will help you see what is superfluous or missing in it, adjust the shape and size, change the style a little or change the materials. If you plan to make the wreath multi-colored, the cones are painted before gluing, they are glued already completely dry. If the wreath is planned to be made more or less uniform, finishing work is carried out after gluing is completed and the workpiece has solidified.

Such a wreath is very beautiful on a dark door, if it is covered with white spray paint, and on top with silver and artificial snow, on a light surface, dark cones with gilding, ruby ​​and emerald inclusions look better.

Christmas star made of cones

The range of decorative products made from cones is not limited to toys and the usual round wreaths with candlesticks. If you have a large enough supply of cones, you can make a very effective and quite versatile decoration - a star. You can use it in many ways - hang it like a wreath on a door or wall, decorate the top of a Christmas tree, attach it to a chandelier, put it on a rack as an element of room decor, or even put it on a table as a candlestick or just decoration.

To create such a product, it is best to use beautiful fir cones - they have an elongated shape and scales, more elegant and pressed to the body, they are much easier to assemble into an expressive composition.

To begin with, lay out the future product on a sheet of cardboard approximately as it will look in finished form. Remember that the star must have the correct shape and neat outlines. No need to lay out all the cones in one plane - make the product more voluminous by placing the parts at different angles. You can connect the cones to each other with hot glue, and for hanging products - also additionally using wire.

Figurine of Santa Claus from cones

Making such funny toys is very easy and simple, even for kids. Finished products can be presented as souvenirs to all guests of the holiday.

To create figurines of Santa Claus, they take wide “pot-bellied” opened pine cones and paint them red. This is the body of the future Santa Claus. Now you need to make a head out of a large bead or a plastic ball, stick hair and a beard of cotton wool or yarn on it, attach a red cap or hat. The head is glued to a bump, boots are made of felt, and a rather wide shiny black belt with a buckle is girded around the vast waist of the New Year's character. Such a figurine can be supplemented with a loop on the head and hung on the Christmas tree as a decoration.

Topiary of cones for the New Year's holiday

A good idea for a festive winter interior decor is compositions of cones in the form of cut trees - topiaries. To create them, you will need plaster, a beautiful or hand-decorated clay or plastic flower pot, a cylindrical stick made of wood, a ball of plastic, foam or floral sponge. The ball is put on a stick, its second end is inserted into a pot, which is filled with gypsum or concrete mortar. It is necessary to monitor the strict verticality of the "trunk" of the future topiary. When the material in the pot hardens and dries, you can begin work. There are two ways to attach cones:

• Top inward, base outward. This method creates original “dense” and fairly even balls, the gaps between the cones are decorated with beads, rhinestones, dried rose buds, lavender sprigs, spikelets and many other details.
• Base inward, top outward. In this case, the tree will turn out to be “fluffy” and voluminous. Cones must be well selected in height and width, otherwise the product will turn out to be sloppy and disheveled.

The surface of gypsum or concrete in a pot is covered with various materials, moss, cloth, straw, covered with small pebbles, glass pebbles or beads.

Interior balls from cones

According to the principle of creating a topiary, a decoration in the form of a ball is also made. It does not require a pot or a stick, only a base in the form of a ball. Here, too, you can stick cones with their tops in or out, and paint the finished product as you like and decorate with various decorative elements.

A large ball can serve as a focal element for decorating a coffee table, it can be hung by first making a loop when gluing cones. If you use small cones to create balls, you can put several decorative elements at once in one basket, on a tray or plate.

Decorating the New Year's table with cones

One of the easiest ways to decorate the New Year's table is to make cards from cones to accommodate guests. You can simply insert a finished card into the cone, making a drank in it with a jigsaw, or turn the cones into funny little figures. In this case, you can get not only a catchy table decor, but also small stylish souvenirs that guests can take with them.

Festive garlands of cones

You can complement the bright and festive New Year's decor with garlands of cones. You can make them very simply - just stick an ordinary tailor's pin with a ring at the end into the base of each cone or screw in small threaded loops. Next is a matter of technology. Decorated elegant cones can simply be strung on a wire or cable, and if you need to fix the position of each thread, just tie a knot on each loop or drop a little hot glue on it.

In the manufacture of products from cones, only two things are important - your creativity and accuracy, then the resulting things can become real works of art.

Good afternoon, today I want to show what interesting crafts can be made from cones for the New Year. Cones are a free natural material that can be used to create original Christmas tree decorations. Cones can decorate the New Year's table setting. New Year's painted cones can become part of a festive composition in home decor for the New Year. Many crafts are suitable for children. As well as ideas for adult cone design. Let's see what New Year's crafts you can create with your own hands based on cones (pine and spruce).

DIY toys

from cones with their own hands.

For those who know how to knit (crochet or knitting), or sew from felt, it will not be difficult to create such winter men on skis or sleds. We make the body of little men from an opened pine cone. The head is made of a ping-pong ball or a small foam ball, toned in beige gouache. We make skis from ice cream sticks, ski poles are simple toothpicks, fluffy wire handles. Children's New Year's creativity from natural material is a good idea for classes at home or in the lessons on work and art at school.

By the same principle, you can put snowmen or penguins on skis. The snowman's head can be made of a furry white pompom (as in the photo of the New Year's crafts below). Or you can make a head from a foam ball, from cotton (mix cotton with PVA glue and roll into a round ball, dry and use as a head of a snowman craft from a cone.

But the author's penguins - small (from a pine cone) and large (from a long spruce cone). The head of the penguin is made of a white foam ball, which is painted with black gouache. Headphones made of wire wrapped in woolen thread and two small fur pompoms. Black wings-paws of penguins are cut out of felt or formiam.

You can make a whole flock of penguins in red New Year's caps from pine cones .. Penguin wings can be made from black plasticine, or pieces of tree bark (as in the photo below). Kids will love this DIY craft.

And if you glue big round eyes and a hook nose to a round pine cone, then we get an OWL. We make wings from felt, or formiam, or from a piece of leather (leatherette). Owl caps can be glued from bright paper napkins with a New Year's pattern (this is how our cone owls will look festive).

If you buy pieces of felt (it comes in sheets like paper, and you can buy small sheets in different colors) you can create a whole series of funny Christmas animals based on a cone.

Cone pendant toys

On the Christmas tree with your own hands.

And here is another idea for the New Year, where pendants are made from cones to decorate the Christmas tree. Here everything is done according to the principle - at the bottom there is a bump, at the top is the head of the character. Big-headed cones - do-it-yourself crafts available for activities with children.

The simplest thing is to take a foam ball, stick a nose and button eyes on it. The nose can be cut out of a thick piece of orange felt. Or the nose can be molded from cotton wool soaked in PVA glue, when it hardens, such pva-wool becomes hard like wood (a convenient material for crafts, especially since any color of gouache can be mixed into pva glue and we get not only a durable part, but also necessary for you colors).

With the help of felt or fluffy wire, wings may appear at the cone, and then such a craft can be designed as an angel or fairy.

new year characters,

made from cones.

If the cone is painted red with gouache, then you get the basis for Santa Claus crafts. It is better not to paint a bump with a brush. And immediately completely dipped in a plastic cup with paint. Pour PVA glue into a glass - add red gouache there. We dip the whole cone into this coloring mess.

Important! Save your money. Do not buy PVA in small tubes in stationery. Go to the construction department of the store and buy PVA in a liter bucket (at a price it will be 4-7 times cheaper).

Crafts from cones look very nice, in which red elements are added - ribbons, beads, felt. This is a great idea for children's New Year's cone crafts - and it's simple, quick and easy for a child.

You can also make CHRISTMAS crafts from cones and other natural and improvised materials. Lush ribbons, lace patterns can be used as wings for angels. You can crochet openwork angel wings with your own hands if you have ever knitted napkins. You can make a whole Christmas scene with a newborn baby Jesus in a cradle from cones and pieces of felt (or fleece).

Decorative Christmas cones

With my own hands.

And here are samples of crafts with cones decorated for the new year. As decor, we use sprigs of needles from a Christmas tree, green leaves from indoor plants, or torn from a bouquet, small alder cones, pieces of moss, beads, balls, bells, bright ribbons and shiny paper.

Decorated cones that are pre-painted (dipped in a glass with colored PVA glue) look very beautiful and festive. After painting and drying, the bump should be sprinkled with hairspray - the color will become brighter and the bump will begin to shine like a glossy one. And on a bump wet from varnish, you can quickly sprinkle glitter (sprinkle for nails is suitable).

In the craft store you can buy small figurines of birds. They will look great not on top of your New Year's bump. Birds can make nests from Christmas tree needles, decorate them with red beads.

And the cones themselves can be decorated with beads from beads, or small pom-pom balls, slipping them between the scales and fixing them with hot glue.

And the cones can also be folded together - into a snowball star. We lay out six snowflakes on the table - buttocks together - tips apart. And glue them with hot hot glue from a gun. We cover the gluing place with a snowflake cut out of cardboard, spruce paws, beads or a small bump (the tip is cut off from a large bump).

New Year crafts

from SCALES cones.

And here is an interesting way to make crafts from cones for the new year. If you take and pull out the scales from the cones. One of them can (as from natural puzzles) assemble any pattern or three-dimensional shape.

For example, cut out a star from cardboard. And we lay out the scales on the glue along the contour of this star, gradually, row by row, getting to the middle. School-age children will like this craft - only the scales need to be pulled in advance.

You can simply lay out a flower from cone scales on a round piece of cardboard. You also need to start FROM THE EDGES of the cardboard circle, and row after row to the middle of the flower. Glue fabric lace or a paper snowflake to the back of the flower. We get an elegant openwork craft for the New Year.

You can also decorate a paper cone with scales from a cone. So we get Christmas tree crafts made from natural cone material (as in the photo below).

And here is another interesting Christmas craft. We take packages from milk (small size). We paint them in white gouache, and draw black stripes on top (we imitate the color of birch bark). We cut a round hole in one of the sides of the box. And the top of the milk box (it is shaped like a house-roof) is pasted over with cone scales on hot thermo-glue from a gun. And we get such a (photo below) New Year's craft in the form of bird houses. Very beautiful and unusual.

And also scales can be pasted over the snowman's foam tummy - put on him such a fur coat of cones. Nice craft for older kids.

Cones on wreaths

and New Year's panels on the wall.

Very interesting decorative panels can be made from cones. If you make any shape from the slats (for example, a star), then you can glue it with cones - and you get an original New Year's craft that can be hung on the wall, leaned against the wall next to the Christmas tree. You can wrap this cone star with a garland, make it illuminated with light bulbs.

Armed with glue from a gun, you can assemble an openwork snowflake craft from cones. And also use it as a panel on the wall.

And if you have a small number of cones, you can make a wall panel from another natural material, and use the cones as an additional decoration.

Christmas wreaths can also be made from cones. To do this, they can be painted in any color (dipped in pva glue, tinted with gouache, or covered with spray paint).

We make a wreath on the basis of a wooden or cardboard ring. We attach the cones to the base ring with glue.

New Year's compositions

With cones.

for table decoration.

Also, cones can become part of the New Year's composition that decorates your holiday table for the New Year. You can simply spread the colored cones on the table between dishes and glasses. Or you can hang them on a chandelier for bright ribbons or hang them on the edge of the table (as in the photo below).

You can also make a serving boutonniere out of cones to decorate the plate of each guest.

It looks beautiful if you choose the same color for a shiny topping under the color of the cone. Make the buds sparkle and sparkle like frosty patterns on a winter window.

You yourself can come up with various compositions with cones and other material. Your fantasies of interesting "unnecessary things" found in your desk drawer can become a source of original exclusive crafts from cones with your own hands.

Candlesticks with cones

With my own hands.

In the same way, candles can be included in your desktop New Year's arrangement of cones. You can simply arrange candles in a beautiful dish and spread around the cones, painted in shades close to the color of the candles.

If you are making a craft where all the cones are glued together, then when assembling such a glue cone heap, insert pieces of plastic tubes inside - you can insert candles into these places. When gluing, make sure that the candle holder tubes are glued strictly vertically - otherwise your candles will not stand in even columns, but at random.

You can do it easier. Put a glass on a cardboard circle. And around it, glue cones, pine branches, berries, stars carved from birch bark and orange peel on cardboard with glue.

That is, to create a candlestick, any method of decor is suitable. Or we put a candle inside a ring of cones and natural material. Or glue (tie with a ribbon) natural material to the body of the candle itself. Or we put a candle inside a tall glass and around it we put cones and other tinsel right into the glass (as in the third photo below).

Christmas tree crafts

From pine cones.

And also your New Year's compositions from cones can be decorated as high PYRAMID CHRISTMAS. Such Christmas trees can be folded from ordinary cones, painted in gold paint from a spray can. And you can decorate them with ribbons, felt flowers, small Christmas balls (also glue them with hot glue).

These are my ideas for the New Year 2018. Let these works inspire you. And let your cones bloom with DIY ideas in your capable hands.

Good luck with your New Year's work.

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The New Year holidays are approaching - the time to give and receive gifts, decorate the Christmas tree and decorate the house. Perhaps we no longer believe in the good old man Santa Claus, we do not expect gifts from him under the Christmas tree, but we definitely expect a miracle, especially on New Year's Eve.

A miracle is certainly good, but the realities of life dictate their own rules to us. Work, business, the end of the quarter and the year - all this leaves its mark on the availability of free time, and therefore on preparing for the holiday. If there is very little time left, and you don’t want to give loved ones a soulless purchased gift, then it’s time to think about New Year crafts made from natural materials. In this article, we have collected for you the best master classes from around the Internet on making Christmas crafts from cones.

Rules for working with cones

So, before you start making Christmas decorations from cones, you should familiarize yourself with the rules for their operation, if you can call it that. There are several rules for preparing cones before using them as material for New Year's crafts so that the finished product does not deform and deteriorate some time later.

Rule 1. Working with cones is a pleasure, but you should take into account the fact that the air temperature outside is much lower than indoors, which means that the cones you brought will begin to open. Spruce trees will look like ruffled hedgehogs, and pine trees will look like fluffy Christmas trees. If your craft involves the use of closed cones, then dip the cone for 30 seconds in a container of wood glue, then remove and let it dry. Regardless of the temperature, the cone will always be "closed".

Rule 2. If open fluffy cones are needed for crafts, and there is no time to wait, then for their speedy opening, the cones must be boiled for half an hour, and then dried on a battery. After drying, the cone will become fluffy and will no longer change its shape. Instead of boiling, you can use the oven, placing the cones there for two hours, preliminarily setting the temperature to 250 ° C.

Rule 3. If the shape of the cone does not quite suit you, it can be slightly corrected. To do this, the natural material must be soaked in water, and then tied with a thread. After drying, the shape of the cone will be the same as you gave it with a thread.

Rule 4. Buds don't have to be brown. All the same, the New Year is a holiday of miracles and an ordinary fir cone from a simple brown can turn white or even golden. In general, to bleach buds, soak them in water with bleach (1:1), then rinse and dry. The result is impressive.

So, now that you have familiarized yourself with the rules for working with cones, it's time to start creating New Year's decorations from this natural material. What can be made from cones? Yes, anything! The main thing is to stock up on a festive mood and give free rein to your imagination. And our master classes will help you navigate a wide variety of options.

One of the main attributes of the New Year has always been and remains the Christmas tree. It’s New Year’s because it doesn’t look like the one we saw in the forest, however, if you saw it. A Christmas tree can quite well be made with your own hands from ordinary pine cones, since pine is an unpretentious plant, and therefore grows almost everywhere in our cities. To create such a New Year's craft with your own hands, you will need: thick paper, scissors, old newspapers, glue and, of course, cones.

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Cute Christmas decorations are made from ordinary cones and pieces of felt. You will also need scissors, glue, paint and plasticine or a wooden ball. Such birds will look great on the New Year tree or they can be presented as a souvenir to your close and dear people.

Making Christmas crafts with kids is a pleasure. Firstly, the child is busy with an important matter with his parents, secondly, we are all pleased to create something new, and thirdly, such a craft may well become a New Year's souvenir for grandparents, and maybe for Santa Claus himself. To make Santa's magical helpers you will need: cones, pieces of felt, scissors, glue, plasticine or a wooden ball for the head.

You can actually make a variety of forest dwellers out of cones, and it doesn’t have to be a hedgehog. From this master class you will learn how to make chanterelles from cones and felt.

It would be strange if there were no hedgehog among our master classes for making animals from cones. A fluffy cone with its appearance just resembles a prickly eared forest animal. You will need: cones, felt, scissors, glue.

To make squirrels from cones with your own hands, you will need: cones, felt, scissors and glue.

#7 Crafts from cones for the new year: make a ball with your own hands. Scheme

You will need a foam ball, cones, ribbon, glue.

With the onset of cold weather, it becomes more and more difficult for our smaller brothers to get their own food, so we should take care of them, especially given the cold weather in our places. A great idea for crafts from cones is a bird feeder. Take a cone, generously spread it with honey or condensed milk, and then dip it in a container with “bird treats”. Hang the feeder in the yard on a tree and watch the birds enjoy your treats with pleasure.

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#17 Decorating the house with shiny cones: getting ready for the New Year's party

If you are planning a serious adult party, then decorating the interior with fabulous elves and decorative owls is not worth it. It is better to use sparkles and add sparkle and chic to New Year's Eve!

Any cone is suitable for a hedgehog, both pine and spruce, but it must be fluffy. How to do this, we told at the very beginning of the article in the rules for working with cones.

Cones are a fairly versatile material, and if you have already grown out of chanterelles, squirrels and hedgehogs, then you can decorate this natural material with ordinary paint. Looks very stylish.

What is a tree without cones? From a seemingly ordinary pine or spruce cone, you can make an incredibly cute Christmas tree toy that will fit into the overall decor as harmoniously as possible. You will need: a bump, glue, a bead, ribbon and thread.

The eagle owl fits perfectly into the New Year theme: it does not sleep at night, stays with us for the winter, and of course, this particular bird was Harry Potter's pet. Small owls can decorate the interior, a Christmas tree, or give loved ones as a souvenir.

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#24 We continue to make birds from cones: DIY crafts "Owl"

Cones make excellent birds, including owls. On New Year's Eve, there must be at least one owl on the Christmas tree - there must be someone who will definitely not fall asleep and follow Santa Claus: how exactly he gets into the house and how he leaves gifts. Making a night guard is quite simple. You will need: a bump, glue, pieces of fabric, beads for the eyes.

Children, even the most fidgety ones, will gladly take up the painstaking work of creating a New Year's penguin, but on one condition: parents must take part in the process. Spend a few hours together and end up with a cute New Year's craft - what could be better!

If you are not satisfied with the banal decoration of candles and vases with cones, then you should like this original picture. You will need: cones, a frame, ribbons, scissors and double-sided tape or glue.

Decorating the Christmas tree is one of the most important activities in preparation for the holiday. I want to decorate the forest beauty in a special way. The most special will be the Christmas tree, on which toys are made by hand, in which the soul and warmth of the creator are invested. Our step-by-step master class will help you make an unpretentious Christmas tree toy from ordinary cones with your own hands. If there are children in the house, be sure to involve them in the creative process.

A great idea for a New Year's theme would be a craft made of cones in the form of a deer. It's quick and easy to make and looks really cute. By the way, such a craft can be hung on a Christmas tree as a hand-made toy.

A great idea for crafts for the new year from cones will be a snowman. And not just an ordinary snowman, but an athlete snowman who prefers to spend the New Year holidays on skis. By the way, take note of this character's idea and be sure to spend time with the whole family somewhere on a hill during the winter holidays!

With the help of cones, you can decorate the New Year's table, using this natural material as a stand for cards with a seating plan for guests. Suitable not only for a party with a large number of guests, but also for a quiet cabal. The main thing, after all, is the creation of a New Year's atmosphere.

Even if you have a large Christmas tree, miniature Christmas trees made of cones will not become superfluous, because the Christmas tree is only in one room, while in others it is quite possible to create a festive atmosphere with miniature copies.

If you still decide to decorate the house with miniature Christmas trees made of cones, then here's another step-by-step master class for you.

If you like Christmas balls with snow that you can shake and arrange a real winter blizzard, then you will like this craft. The cone resembles a Christmas tree, so in a jar of snow it looks like a real forest beauty in miniature, who is waiting in the forest for a kind old man.

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Another great option for a miniature Christmas tree for decoration or as a souvenir would be such a cone craft.

If you don’t have the time or desire to mess around with a fluffy wreath, the master class on which you saw above, then you can make an incredibly simple cone wreath, which will take much less time to make, but it will look very cool!

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