What is the easiest way to make a pinecone wreath using a glue gun?

The easiest way I've found for wreaths with ornaments is to have a cardboard backer, so make a round cut out with a hole in the middle then glue your pinecones to it. If you have different sizes it's best to do all the large ones in an orderly fashion, then layer in the next size down, then again next size down to fill the gaps. I've not done a pine cone wreath, but I have glued some in a different shape and this worked well, but I've also made ornament wreaths with the backer and prefer this method!

First make sure to debug your pinecones by soaking them in a bucket of warm with 1/2c vinegar for 15-20. If want the pines to have to open look to them, preheat your oven to 200degrees and bake on foil lined cookie sheet for 30 minutes. If you would like them to remain close, dry overnight on newspaper.

Stick them together in a circle and repeat until happy

Choose a wreath base...foam would be a good option. Then, begin adding pine cones around the entire base....gluing them on as you go. Keep adding cones until you get the look you like. Make sure to use plenty of glue on each cone to hold it in place. You will be putting the glue on the very base of each cone and attaching them to the foam wreath before it hardens. Hold each cone in place until the glue hardens well....then move on to the next one. If desired, you can add a bow, etc when the wreath is finished.

It is quite difficult to glue pinecones onto any flat smooth wreath form to any degre that they will last and stay stuck without falling off. It is because there is not one flat area on a pine cone. What can make it easier to fashion a wreath, is to first cover the flat wreath form (whether it be foam, cardboard, etc. ) with a fabric material that is very textured.

While gluing the pine cones in place one by one, add additonal strength by wiring each pine cone in place. The wires can be poked and threaded through the textured covering to anchor and hide them.