Giant Blossoms: Beautiful DIY Pinecone Decorations For Winter & Christmas
DIY Pinecone decorations are perfect for winter weddings and Christmas season. These giant blossoms make me feel like Alice in wonderland! Can you guess what they are made of?
One of the best ways to form a deeper connection with all the beauty and magic of nature, is to make things from treasures found on a nature walk.
These kind of pine cone decorations and crafts are not only super fun and easy, they also open our eyes to see things in fresh new ways!
For example: ever since I started making wreaths with this dollar store hack, I have discovered so many awesome wreath materials from nature!
Now I see huge flowers in all the leaves and seed pods…
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Materials and tools to make giant flowers pinecone decorations:
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- leaves: leathery evergreens work the best, such as Southern Magnolia, Holly, Bay, etc. And pine cones: make sure any little critters in there are safely moved out!
- hot glue gun and hot glue sticks
- optional: craft paints, preferably non toxic like these, so our flowers can be returned to the soil when it’s time for new decorations!
- thin threads, strings, or clear fishing lines to hang the flowers
Step one: make giant flowers pinecone decorations
Let’s look at how to make flowers without paint first: take a pine cone, and start gluing leaves to the scales. The spiral pattern makes the perfect guide to glue our “flower petals” around this pine cone center.
After the first layer of leaves, we can add more layers to make our flowers look fuller.
Step 2: painting the the giant flowers pinecone decorations
T0 make flowers with painted pine cones and leaves, just paint each pinecone and leaf first.
Wait till the paint dries, and glue the elements like in step one above. You can even make ombre flower petals. The possibilities are endless!
I think the gold and silver flowers are perfect pinecone decorations for Christmas and New Year, with their elegant winter vibes!
The pink flowers would be beautiful as early spring decorations before all the real flowers arrive.
Step 3: display the the giant flowers pinecone decorations
Tie a piece of string or clear fishing line around the back of the pine cone to hang the flowers.
After getting carried away and ended up with seven huge flowers, it’s only natural to set up a flowering tree for an extra wonderful wonderland!
These flowers would be beautiful as a garland too!
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Wish you many happy days filled with flowers! xo
I am wondering what will happen when the leaves start to dry after a week or so? If I want to make pinecone flowers for Christmas, how to to keep the leaves not curling and shrinking?
hi bobby! magnolia leaves are really long lasting. if you paint them, they can last for 3-4 months or more! 🙂
I am in Toronto, Canada. Maple trees are more in this area. Can’t find the leaves you shown. 🙁
hi! usually the thicker and more leathery leaves you can find , the longer they last! 🙂
Why not buy cheap dollar store flowers, paint or spray whatever colors you like – they will last forever
I am a recent convert to all things pinecone. I am plotting ext Xmas and my husband and I do all home made gifts, because my family like that but also because we live on a tight senior budget.
I collected all my pinecones from my Xmas decos and made some really pretty “snowy” and bleached and painted/glittered cone tree ornaments with silvery velvet ribbon bows.
Then I saw your exquisite flowers. I live in Mississippi where we may be poor but we do have an abundance of 2 things: Southern Pine and Magnolia (oops, 3 things: holly ). I’m wondering how long these “flowers” last? Can I make them and pack away til next Xmas? Gifts are harder yearly as my arthritis and fine motor skills worsen, so I’d love to stash some crafts away during the year. Thanks, I looove your stuff!
hi maggie! if you paint the leaves on the front side they can last for a long time. you can definitely make them a few months ahead. best wishes and happy holidays! 🙂
Hi, it looks so pretty, did you use fresh leaves or dried?
hi rachel, i used fresh fallen leaves, they are thick so they dry nicely and maintain the same shape. 🙂
You hooked me with decoupaged knobs, and I’ve followed you since. I love your projects and look forward to every email. Thank you!
thank you so much linda for your sweet comment! 🙂 happy creating and have a wonderful holiday season!
Thank you for sharing this wonderful nature crafts
I can’t wait to get started creating the pinecone flower
thank you pamela! happy DIY! 🙂
Gorgeous. Absolutely gorgeous.
I am putting together a sort of Easter arts and crafts compilation blog post, with pictures of creative projects for spring. Would you mind if I shared one of your pictures? I will of course credit it with a link to this post. I did the same thing last year if you would like a reference on how it might look: http://aliciasivert.blogspot.se/2015/03/paskpeppen-2015.html
Thank you for the inspiration!
Have a lovely weekend!
Alicia
sure Alicia =) happy spring!!
Oh my goodness why have I not ever thought of this?! This is the most beautiful arrangement of flowers! Gorgeous work my dear xoxo
Oh these are beautiful and the technique with attaching them to the pine cone makes really effective looking flowers. I wonder if this could be made with fabrics to make it last longer. So lovely
This is so cute! It looks easy enough too!
Amazing! I’ve never seen anything like this!
I absolutely love this post. Not only pictures beautiful, the creativity is very unique and the result superb! So well done. Thank you for sharing <3
Waouhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh it is so beautiful:I love…I love Nature and what yiu create with your heart and simply life… Serenity…
Thank’s for all…Have a nice december…
I am in love with your blog. I just went foraging for materials to make a Christmas wreath this year! I’m so excited to get started. I might have to add some leaf flowers!
These are beautiful. Love that you plan to recycle them naturally when you are done with them. Truly an artistic way to bring nature inside.
Oh my gosh those flowers are SO cool – they look great with the branch too!!
Oh my goodness, these are stunning! I’m going to have to find new ways to incorporate flowers into my home after seeing these beautiful photos.
x Sarah
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U am so inspired by your post! The flowers and arrangements are beautiful. My family will love this!