Pine cones crafts with your own hands - interesting ideas for children and schoolchildren (83 photos)

Cones of conifers have an interesting shape, different sizes and a pleasant smell. In addition, they are quite affordable and do not lose their appearance. Due to these qualities, they can be widely used as an ornamental material.

Features of the material

Before making crafts from cones with your own hands, you need to get acquainted with their features:

they can be of different degrees of maturity, that is, the scales are in different states of opening;
in a warm place they can change their shape, so you need to soak them in glue for a few hours and then dry them.
If necessary, the shape can be changed by soaking in water, rewinding and drying.

Related materials

Each cone craft, depending on its type, needs the use of additional materials and some tools:

paints;
plasticine;
glue;
ribbon, rope, thread;
cardboard, paper;
scissors, a knife.

Having taken a cone as the basis, the rest of the materials and tools can be picked up as you go along. Also it all depends on the idea. If this is a craft out of cones for children, you can do with a minimum set of hand tools. If it is something serious, will be the appropriate materials and tools.

Hedgehog

The easiest model of a cone and clay is a hedgehog. You will need brown and black clay and, of course, a cone. The process itself will take no more than 20 minutes. This handicraft can be made even by a preschool child. Need:

From brown plasticine to mold the head in the form of a drop;
From the same material to make paws;
Of black plasticine roll two small balls and one slightly larger (eyes and nose), glue them to the head;
Attach the head and paws to the cone. The hedgehog is ready!

You can also make plasticine of other colors of apples and mushrooms and place them on the hedgehog's needles.

New Year attributes

A cone is often found as a New Year decoration. The simplest craft is a Christmas tree toy with an imitation of snow, marked with cotton or white paint, a more complicated craft - a wreath or garland.

Container for little things

From cones you can make a bowl, vase or other container for storing various small things. There are many variations of execution, but the general principle is similar:

Choose a suitable form of future "storage";
Select the necessary number of cones;
Take three glued cones as a base and gradually increase the bottom with additional cones to the desired size;
Then glue cones vertically to the bottom, forming the walls;
Paint the ready container, decorate it with beads or ribbons.

You can decorate it with anything you like according to your taste and availability of decorative elements.

Frame

This craft out of cones can perfectly diversify the interior of the room. You only need to glue halves or whole cones ready photo frame. Then varnish the decoration and decorate it in any way you can. You can use beads, satin ribbons, etc.

Animals

Lovers of cute things can surround themselves with handmade crafts of animals out of cones. These can be: hedgehogs, chanterelles, squirrels, etc.

The process of making such crafts is the same:

Take a medium-sized cone, preferably pompous;
Process it and dry it;
Choose an image of the animal from some source;
Use scissors to cut out the necessary elements (tail, nose, paws);
Attach the cut out elements to the cone with glue;
Draw or make eyes with plasticine.

Decorative ball

A wonderful decorative element will be a ball made of cones. It can be placed on a coffee table or hung from the ceiling. To make this handicraft, you need a white ball of styrofoam to glue painted cones.

Start gluing from the middle to the edges. After making the work of art at your discretion.

Bird feeder

Such a handicraft in addition to being beautiful, is also useful, as it will serve as a good outdoor bird feeder. To make it you need:

Select a larger cone;
Cedar it with condensed milk or honey;
Mix in a suitable bowl different types of cereals;
Roll the sweet sticky cone in the mixture of cereals;
Attach a cord to it and hang it outside.

Spruce night light

If you have in the economy unnecessary glass jar and working garland, you can make a wonderful night light in the room.

Moreover, the process itself is quite simple, you only need to carefully arrange in a bank with a strip of autonomous light bulbs or LEDs and cones, close the lid of the container. If the garland is working on the mains, you can make a neat slot in the lid under the cord.

Multi-level candlestick

This accessory can be made as follows:

Prepare trimmed cones, candles and a box of wood;
From one of the largest cones, carefully separate several layers of scales, fix a candle to the base and glue the previously removed scales to it;
From the next cone completely remove the scales, glue the removed elements to the second candle in checkerboard order;
In this way, you can make several candlesticks, different in height, size and design;
Glue the sides of the cones to form a frame in the form of a circle;
Place the resulting composition on a wooden box and paint or decorate it according to personal preference and availability of decorative elements.

There are many more ideas that can be realized from such forest material as cones. Experiment, take samples, get acquainted with the master classes of crafts from cones and implement wonderful ideas for useful and beautiful products.