🐾 Gifts of the forest at our feet: we collect cones and make wonderful New Year's crafts out of them with our own hands (photos and tips)
The desire to decorate your home for the New Year is characteristic of almost every person. It is doubly more interesting not just to purchase ready-made decor, but to make something original on your own. We suggest going to the coniferous forest and preparing more cones for winter creativity. The homemaster.techinfolux.com/en/ editorial team invites you to find out what you can do with your own New Year's crafts from cones, photos and tips from creative masters, as well as the pleasure of exploring beautiful creations.
The content of the article
- 1 General tips: how to make an original craft from ordinary cones
- 2 The best cone craft for the New Year is a festive wreath
- 3 Crafts from cones for the new year: decorating the interior
- 4 Christmas crafts from cones: what figures can be made to decorate a Christmas tree
- 5 Other ideas for using cones in New Year's design
- 6 Video: funny crafts from cones
General tips: how to make an original craft from ordinary cones
If a person's whole idea of crafts made from gifts of spruce, larch, pine and cedar comes down to kindergarten hedgehogs, then it makes sense to expand the boundaries of his own horizons and be surprised at the beauty and grace of New Year's compositions made of cones.
There are many ways to use these gifts to benefit your apartment. Cones make:
- candlesticks;
- Garlands;
- wreaths;
- Christmas decorations;
- Christmas trees;
- decorate a chandelier;
- make out a frame for a photo;
- make animals, birds, flowers;
- beautiful interesting pendants.
Each type of work requires some preparation of the material and the selection of additional decorative elements.
Can bumps be whitened?
On the Internet, there are photos with the design of rooms, where bleached cones are used as decor. Let's make a reservation right away, it is unlikely that it will be possible to repeat the effect, and the masters are reluctant to part with such secrets. But we will show you how to achieve a decent bleaching of a tree cone.
First, collect all the fallen coniferous inflorescences and clean them of resin residues. We put everything in a container with an alkaline agent - for this purpose, the “Mole” pipe cleaner is suitable. After 2-3 hours, rinse the bumps and leave them to dry.
Important! Do not be surprised: with prolonged contact with liquid, the coniferous inflorescence will fold. Upon subsequent drying, the petals will open again.
All the bumps will soon drown and close. We close the container tightly with a lid and put it on the balcony for reliability and safety. It is best to forget about the jar all night. In the morning we take out all the closed inflorescences and dry them at low temperatures in the oven until they are completely open. If necessary, repeat the whiteness procedure.
Paint, paint, paint
The second option for changing the natural color is such a method as staining. Painting is carried out by means of a spray can or by lowering the material into a can of paint. Well, you can try to paint a kilogram of buds with a brush, but not everyone has reached the highest level of patience of the Dalai Lama. Therefore, let's return to the description of the simple and affordable methods of staining.
When using paint in a spray can, the cones are also tied up to dry.
There is also a third way to change the natural color: dip the lump in PVA glue and sprinkle it with glitter (sparkles) of the desired color, fortunately, their choice is not limited today.
The best cone craft for the New Year is a festive wreath
A wreath is a large-scale and especially decorative craft made from fir cones. Such a product will serve more than one holiday, since its durability will be beyond praise, and it will look at the door truly New Year's.
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Crafts from cones for the new year: decorating the interior
If the craft does not serve for aesthetic purposes, then there is little sense from it: you cannot put it in a prominent place, and it will not give any pleasure when contemplating. Another thing is when creativity and skill organically fit into the design of the room, gently transforming and complementing it. Let's try to imagine what a room decorated with bumpy beauty would look like?
A pine cone turns into a tree without soil and water - a magic available to everyone
Decorative decoration in the form of a small Christmas tree is already a tradition in the house where the New Year will be celebrated.To turn a pile of different cones into an incomparable Christmas tree, we take a thermal gun, decorative elements: beads, pompons, earrings without pairs that have been accumulating for several years, acrylic paint, glitter, LED garland will work - the decoration can be anything, the main thing is that it all looks harmonious.
The main thing you need is a cone. The cone can be made of thick cardboard, the remains of wallpaper, foam rubber.
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Chandelier transformation for the New Year
A great idea can be a decor from New Year's crafts made of cones and branches in the form of a chandelier decoration. To make the lighting in the room truly atmospheric, you will need to prepare the material: lighten the bumps, paint or simply roll in glue and sprinkle with glitter.
Making a frame for a photo
To create an unusual photo frame, we use a base frame made of cardboard of any shape and a cardboard frame that repeats the contours of the frame, hot glue and cones.
We glue the frame onto the cardboard base, not forgetting to leave a place where we will insert the photo. We glue the tape as a pendant. Now we will glue different cones onto the cardboard frame.
What is New Year without candles? Changing dull candlesticks for holiday ones
For the house, New Year's crafts in the form of candlesticks are also made from cones. Perhaps this is the ideal way to use the gifts of the coniferous forest. Since this material is beautifully decorated, there is no problem to make a solemn composition out of it by adding other decorations.
New Year's decor of the back of a chair with cones
In an attempt to invoke the spirit of Christmas into your home, you should think about the little things in the decor. Even the back of a chair will play an important role if you decorate it with a simple but nice-looking suspension.
Christmas crafts from cones: what figures can be made to decorate a Christmas tree
Surely, in search of interesting new ideas, many pictures of New Year's crafts from cones were considered. But sometimes the picture does not give an answer to the question “how is it done?”, And whether such a decoration will look decent on the tree is also not clear.
Consider the Christmas tree decorations that you can make, if you are not too lazy and collect more pine or spruce cones. Children love to pour their imagination into New Year's crafts from cones and acorns, why not connect adults to such a pastime?
The Christmas mood will be given by the angels who descended on the tree. It will be great if they are hung not on New Year's Eve, but on Christmas. To make an angel, you need to prepare the material for the wings and head.
You can try making a few different animals and birds by turning a Christmas tree into a haven for animals.
In addition to the animal kingdom, pine balls and snowflakes will beautifully hang on the tree.
Other ideas for using cones in New Year's design
They hung the wreath, decorated the tree, and didn't even forget about the chairs and frames on the wall. Now let's start decorating surfaces. It is impossible to keep silent about the fact that natural material is great for creating topiary.
Do not forget that as soon as the snow falls, it will cover all the fruits of conifers, so we are going to collect the gifts of the forest!