Cute Illuminated Pine Cone Christmas Trees.
3 Materials
$2
1 Hour
Easy
One of my favourite things about Christmas decorations are all the lights. I have designed a really cute but affordable illuminated mini Christmas tree I can have on my desk.
My boys also want one for their bedrooms.
To make the Christmas tree first get a small tin can (the ones that are half the height of regular tin cans), a pine cone some scrap cardboard and felt.
Spray paint the pine cone green.
Spray paint the tin can cream. When the can has dried, get a bucket of warm water, splash some red nail polish onto the surface of the water. Then roll the outside of your painted can over the surface of the water.
The nail polish will cling to the can creating a lovely faux marble effect.
(more details on the blog.)
The Pine Cone Christmas tree is illuminated with mini copper battery-driven string lights which you can get here.
Draw around the tin can onto the cardboard and felt and cut out a disc of each material to fit the top of the tin can. Glue the discs together and pierce a small hole through the disc to one side.
Thread the copper string lights through this hole.
Using a hot glue gun, glue the pine cone to the center of the felt disc. Then wrap the string lights around the pine cone Christmas tree.
Place the battery pack inside the marble tin can and then place the tree on top as a lid.
To switch your tree on and off, just lift off the lid and use the switch on the battery pack.
You can leave your tree as is or decorate with mini pom poms. I just put a little wooden star topper on mine.
I love to use these gorgeous copper string lights in my Christmas decorations, I made a popular illuminated Stags head out of them, which you can see here.
Resources for this project:
Mini battery opperated copper string lights
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Oh my gosh! Every year I try to do something for my crew at work for a Christmas decoration without breaking the bank. I'm stealing my friends cat food cans starting now!! The pine cones are everywhere...and I already have the light strings for glass bottles I used to put on my patio. Repurpose here we come! Wow. I'm going to get a 12 month jump on it. LOL
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Thank you, Kym. You can start saving your tin cans now!
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Great use of battery lights! Adorable!
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Claire I have never used the mini lights, will the battery pack housing fit into a cat food or tuna can? I know the batteries will but not sure about the housing. Thank you for taking the time to answer :)
Where do I purchase the little light string for this project?