The holiday season is always a great excuse to get out the glitter, pipe cleaners and googly eyes. It’s a time to get together with the kids in your life and create memories. In today’s kid-friendly craft we are using pine cones as our base. Pine cones are great crafting tools because they are so versatile. On this crafting day we made pine cone Christmas trees, angels and reindeer! 

Start by choosing a design, I printed a few inspiration ideas from Pinterest so the kids could get their creative juices flowing. If you are lucky enough to have pine cones in your backyard, harvesting them for this craft is a fun part to add for the kids. If you don’t have that luxury you can pick up a bag of pine cones at any craft store or even Walmart.

As tree trunks several of the kids chose to use a bottle cork, this made the tree easier to decorate because you could use the cork as a handle. Others made tree skirts with felt and stood them on a paper plate for decoration.

Once you make a decision on the design the first step is to paint. For this craft, we used craft paint from Michaels and of course glitter glue!

Some of the kids chose to paint the whole tree, while others painted just the edges. Once done painting the next step for many was glitter – of course! The use of glitter on the trees made it look like freshly fallen snow – so pretty!

To decorate the pine cones we utilized pom poms, bells, pipe cleaners and fake snow. To attach the decor we used the hot glue gun *use caution, have adult assistance/supervision* and some Quick Dry Tacky Glue.

For the angel, we utilized wire ribbon for the wings and added a plastic dove for decoration.

The reindeer was really fun, for this we used felt for the ears, pom poms, googly eyes, pipe cleaners and sticks we found in the yard.

These pine cone crafts are easy to do for all ages and great memories that last a lifetime!

Let me know how your pine cone crafts come out!

Happy Crafting!

xo,

C