Gift Wrap
YOU WILL NEED:
craft paper
gray paint
brush
ribbons
white painted pinecones
1. Paint your paper—it’s easy, just go to work on it with paint
and a brush. 2. Let it dry. 3. Wrap your gifts and embellish with
ribbons and pinecones.
Hanging Pinecones
YOU WILL NEED:
ribbons, mine are grosgrain that I have washed to get a
vintage look
hot glue gun
large pinecones
1. Cut the ribbons into different lengths and hot glue pinecones
onto one end. 2. Tie the ribbon ends together and hang on wall,
door, or back of a chair.
Crystallized Pinecones
YOU WILL NEED:
pinecones
desired household salt, like alum powder, borax, or
Epsom salts
spray adhesive
sturdy (floral) wire
water
container
binder clips
drying rack
polyacrylic spray
1. Attach floral wire to pinecones by twisting securely around
top. 2. Spray pinecones with adhesive and sprinkle with desired
salt as if glittering—this is called “seeding” the crystals.
3. Let dry overnight. 4. Create saturated solution of same salt
sprinkled on pinecones—do this by dissolving chosen salt
in very hot (almost boiling) water until no more will dissolve.
(For Alum, this is about 3⁄ 4 cup of alum to every 2 cups water;
for borax, this is about 1 cup borax to every 2 cups water; for
Epsom salts this is about 3⁄ 4 cup Epsom to every 1 cup water.)
5. Add saturated solution to chosen container and allow to
cool for 45 minutes. 6. Submerge salt-covered pinecones in
solution. 7. Use binder clips to secure wire to container and keep
pinecones submerged. 8. Within 4–8 hours, crystals will form
on pinecones. Let sit until desired size/effect is reached.
9. Remove pinecones from solution, being careful since crystals
are fragile when wet. 10. Let sit on drying rack for a couple
of days. 11. To preserve luster of crystals, seal with glossy,
polyacrylic spray.
Pinecone Pillow
YOU WILL NEED:
linen fabric
scissors
sewing machine
batting
needle & thread
a few pipe cleaners
1. Cut 2 large pinecone shapes out of linen. 2. Sew them
together, and leave a hole for the batting. 3. Cut 40 3-inch ovals
out of the linen. 4. Hand stich them to the pillow overlapping
like a pinecone. 5. Fill the pillow with batting and sew together.
6. The stem is made of a small tube of linen with pipe cleaners.
Hand stick to the pillow.
Paper Pinecones
YOU WILL NEED:
aged book pages (vintage sheet music would work well too!)
stapler and staples
pencil or pen
scissors
double-stick tape
1. Stack about 15 pages together and secure them together
with staples in a straight line down the center. 2. On either side
of the line of staples, sketch (symmetrically) the profile of a
pinecone. 3. Cut out shape with scissors. 4. Fold up outer pages
on each side along line of staples and secure together with
double-stick tape. 5. Fold and fan out remaining pages to make
pinecone 3-D.
Printed Pinecones
YOU WILL NEED:
pinecone prints, you can find lots on the web
gray paint
brush
scissors
1. Give the prints a thin coat of paint to make them look old.
2. Cut them out and use as wall decor or on gifts.
