How do children make Christmas trees from pine cones?

“Good art is not what it looks like but what it does to us”.

– Roy Adzak

My little puzzles and I took a trip to the forest to collect nature’s beautiful gifts – pine cones, for our Christmas projects. Then we went with my son to his favorite decorating store. We bought everything we needed to make our DIY art: more glues, paints, glitters, strings, pom poms, and colored paper. When my son picks glitter colors, I notice a lot of Christmas stuff around. I stopped next to the shelf with front door decorations. These door decorations are made of plastic, green Christmas tree branches with plastic bells and snow. Seemingly nice, but not very real and not evoking any feelings. Didn’t impress me.

Another thing that surprised me was the plastic pine cones you can buy in different colors. Here, I experienced a double shock – the price and the quality of this decoration. Even my son looked surprised and asked:

“They brought it from the forest?”

“Nope.”

“But we have pine cones from the forest.”

“Yes, I know”.

“We will sell ours too?”

“We will not, we will paint them, decorate them and create our own Christmas decorations”.

And then it started. “My Little Puzzles” decided to create the first small Christmas trees from pine cones. On my website, you will find many simple Christmas projects for kids. https://littlepuzzlesandme.com/what-christmas-decorations-do-children-make-from-rolls-of-paper/

I am happy if you want to copy our idea and later share it with your friends or family. I also recommend a little walk in the woods to choose the most beautiful cones for a DIY project Christmas tree.

What little puzzles will be created today?

CHRISTMAS TREE from pine cones

What my little puzzles don’t need?

DISTURBING PARENTS

This art is definitely wonderful when children create it together. Is also so easy to do for the little ones. Unfortunately extremely dirty because the painting of the cones ends up with painted hands, clothes, and everything around.

What do my little puzzles need?

▪︎full stomach

▪︎drink near to them

▪︎smile

▪︎patience-only because they create together

▪︎good energy

And everything on the list below:

☆tables cover

☆acrylic paints, markers, crayons

☆fluffy soft pom-poms

☆glitter

☆coloured construction paper

☆scissors

☆glue

☆ anything that will help your child make unique Christmas tree design

What will we use for an unplanned mess?

☆ wet wipes

☆ kitchen paper

Let’s start the process of creating a Christmas tree from pine cones:

1. Paint the pine cones in your favorite color. We should choose a green and red color to reflect the magic of Christmas, but Patrick’s favorite color is blue and the cones will be blue.

2. Leave the pine cones to dry.

TIPS:

*Better paint the day before and let the pine cones dry.

3. While the painted cone dries, prepare the products you want to use for decoration:

– colorful pom poms – smaller better

– colorful constructions paper, for making Christmas star

4. The parent will help you draw a sketch of the star.

5. Cut the shape of a Christmas star.

6. Glue pom poms and star to cones.

7. Use glitter to give decorations a Christmas look.

8. See our photos which show the step-by-step process of making decorations.