Easy Pinecone Christmas Crafts

During the fall months there are so many pinecones just starting to fall of the trees. You rake your yard, you get annoyed with the mess and you just don't know what to do with them. Now that the holiday season is arriving we have a few ideas on how you can use those pinecones; pinecone Christmas crafts are just the thing you need.
Pinecone Christmas crafts not only decorates your home, but they can also make your home smell lovely depending on what you did with it. Some people like to sprinkle cinnamon dust on their pinecones to give it the Christmas feel.

When you have your family over this Christmas you want to have your tables neatly decorated and lit up with candles. You can make a candle holder with all the pinecones you collect. You need:

• STYROFOAM Brand Products:
oWreath, two 10″ x 1″
• Pinecones: 2″ long, approximately 2 dozen; 1/2″ - 1″ long, approximately 3 cups
• Brass candle holder picks, 2-1/2″, four
• Candles, four in your choice of color
• Unshelled nuts: Brazil nuts, hazelnuts, almonds , approximately 2 dozen each
• Low temperature glue gun
• Acrylic spray paint: Gold

In just five easy steps you can have an amazingly gorgeous candle holder for the centerpiece of your table.

Follow these steps:

1.Glue wreaths together. Let dry.
2.Paint wreath, nuts and pinecones gold. Let dry.
3.Glue Brazil nuts, points facing up, along lower inside of wreath. Glue hazelnuts in a row above Brazil nuts. Glue 1/2″ pinecones between the two rows to fill in empty spaces.

For more of the project go to the pinecone candle holder.

One of the more popular and easy pinecone Christmas crafts are the simple ones. Just take a regular pinecone you find in your yard, roll it around in glue and then sprinkle glitter all over. This is one of my favorites. It'll sparkle like magic and make your tree look amazing. It reminds me of Tinkerbelle and her fairy dust.

There are so many neat crafts you can do with pinecones. It's nice to help save the earth and recycle, so now you can with pinecones. Making pinecone Christmas c rafts is something you can do every year with your family and add to your collection, so get crafting. For great ideas be sure you check out FaveCrafts.com