Pine Cone Christmas Trees by Somewhat Quirky Design

Somewhat Quirky
by Somewhat Quirky
$7
2 Hours
Easy
Oh how I love these Christmas Trees I've made over the years with pine cones. Make some of your own.
These trees are made from pine cone bracts carefully arranged around a Christmas tree form.
I've used the styrofoam forms, paper mache forms and then learned to make my own cones with posterboard. Making my own forms give me a lot more size flexability. It also saves me a bit of money.
For many years I enjoyed these trees in their natural state. Then I began experimenting with painting them.....and glittering them. Now I've done them in many colors and states of glitteriness. I made that word up!
The blog post with the tutorial is listed just below this post. For more pictures of various trees check HERE.
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  • Rbh4409324 Rbh4409324 on Mar 02, 2016
    This is superb. Please would you share how this is achieved?
  • Debbie Daniels Ford Debbie Daniels Ford on Jan 23, 2022

    what type of pine cones did you use? I used the shorter version and they were pretty hard to get the bracts off of them.



  • Betsy Stevens Betsy Stevens on Nov 10, 2023

    Can you please tell me how you separated the cones or opened them to put on the form. Thank You


    Betsy

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  • James W Douglas James W Douglas on May 30, 2016
    Totally Outstanding!!!!! I appreciate you sharing these projects very much. I usually save 4 to 5 bushels of pine cones every winter from my yard but never had anything in mind to do with them. I am going to share your blog with our local garden club for a group project this fall so they can use some of them up.
  • Dia13452632 Dia13452632 on Oct 19, 2016
    love all your post! so exciting how you build things that look so nice when your finished..
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