In recent years, such a craft as a wreath of pine cones for the New Year has become very popular. In the West, this tradition has been pleasing children and adults for a very long time, but in our country it appeared relatively recently and took root very quickly. This is not surprising, because a New Year's wreath of pine cones, made with love by your own hands, can decorate any home - it looks great on walls, entrance and interior doors, it can even be placed among dishes on the holiday table, and its amazing aroma creates a festive mood.
The tradition of decorating a house for Christmas and New Year with coniferous wreaths came to us from Europe. A Christian master makes a wreath of pine cones for the New Year from fir branches, complemented by 4 candles arranged crosswise. As you know, Christmas is preceded by Advent - a 24-day fast, and on each Sunday of this fast it was customary to light one candle on a wreath.
Several centuries ago, there lived in Europe a Lutheran theologian, Johann Wichern. To help the families of those in need, he took their children into his care. When the Nativity fast came, the impatient children constantly asked their mentor, when will the long-awaited Christmas come? Then he came up with the idea of making a floral wreath by inserting 24 candles into it. He used a wheel as a frame and inserted 20 small red and large white candles into the decoration. Every day he lit one red candle, and on Sunday - a white one. Then, as usual, the wreath was modernized (4 candles remained) and acquired a symbolic meaning among believers - pine branches began to symbolize the Earth, teeming with life, and 4 candles personified the universe.
Looking at the photo of New Year's wreaths made of cones, you can understand that there can be a variety of cones: spruce and pine, cedar and larch - all of them are so beautiful, as if created by nature for artistic use. With this environmentally friendly natural material, you just need to apply a little creativity to create unique decorations for the winter holiday. Moreover, you don’t need to buy this chic craft material, but combine business with pleasure - collecting pine cones in a park or forest with a wonderful walk.
If there are cones in the forest, then there are a lot of them, so when collecting them you need to choose the most beautiful ones or those with an unusual shape, which can also be useful. In addition to cones, you will also need to collect coniferous branches.
One thing to keep in mind is that spruce needles will shed faster than longer pine needles, which will last longer.
If you find only closed cones, don’t be upset. Place them on a warm radiator overnight, and by morning they will open like flowers on a summer morning.
What should you do with the pine cones?
The instructions on how to make a New Year's wreath from cones indicate that the collected material requires simple preparation - all the cones need to be washed in water, removing dirt particles from them, and then dried thoroughly.
Cones prepared in this way can be used in their natural form - with natural colors, or they can be painted, especially since they are easy to paint.
The cone can be tied by a thread and completely immersed in paint of the desired color, or you can paint the cone manually with a brush.
You can use spray paints.
If you paint them before making a New Year's wreath from pine cones, you will get this beauty:
Lightening buds
To lighten a bump, you need:
Covering the pine cones with glitter
Gold-plated, silver-plated or glitter-covered cones look gorgeous. To do this you will need a brush and PVA glue.
Cone aroma
For those who feel that a New Year's wreath made of pine cones does not emit a bright enough aroma, you can treat them with cinnamon, sandalwood, or, in general, any flavoring that suits your taste.
Sometimes the pine cone is difficult to attach or glue to the base. Then at the bottom of the cone you can use pliers or another handy tool to remove several scales to create a flat base with which it will be much easier to fix it.
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Here's how to make a New Year's wreath from pine cones step by step:
In our other article, “New Year’s wreaths from base to decoration,” you will find a lot of ideas on what you can use to make the base for a wreath and how you can decorate it. Believe me, the amount of beauty makes your eyes wide open!
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This is a very simple option for making a New Year's wreath. It will require a clothes hanger made of bendable wire.
You can often see that pine cones are combined with Christmas tree balls and tinsel. These New Year's supplies are not in short supply, but look very elegant and bright.
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Photos of DIY New Year's wreaths made of pine cones and tinsel:
Using the same principle, you can create a New Year's wreath from pine cones - we show you step by step with a photo, but explanations are unnecessary here:
Everyone is free to decorate their New Year's pine cone wreaths with a variety of materials, even such as dried citrus peels or cinnamon sticks. But a New Year's wreath decorated with candies will look tastiest. Kids will especially like it; they will simply be delighted; they will agree with interest to take part in its making, during which time the little one will definitely receive several candies.
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Or another version of the master class for a New Year's wreath made of pine cones:
Fir cones are no less beautiful than pine cones; you can also come up with many original compositions from them, in which pine or spruce branches will look harmonious with them.
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In this version, newspaper or magazine paper is used to make the base of the wreath.
Try to keep the thickness of this ring the same in different places.
You should not try to glue the cones tightly, since other decorations can be placed in the gaps between them: Christmas tree decorations, beads, cinnamon sticks, ribbons, and complete the decoration with a large beautiful bow.
Using the same principle, we will show another master class step by step New Year's wreath of pine cones:
To make such New Year's decorations, you don't need to spend money on expensive materials, because you can make New Year's wreaths from pine cones and branches, which you can collect during a regular walk in the forest.
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Find out a lot of other options on how to make New Year's wreaths from live and dry branches, from vines and other materials on our website.
Pictures of New Year's wreaths with pine cones on willow or birch branches:
You can save time if you use a ready-made base for a Christmas wreath, which are sold in stores in different variations.
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Golden autumn inspires creative deeds! We invite you and your child to make an autumn wreath of pine cones and acorns. Remember how fun it is to collect them? Take your basket with you and go for a walk in the park.
In order to make a wreath, you will need 5 items:
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Before you start assembling the wreath, the acorns and pine cones need to be processed. Wash the acorns, separate from the caps and bake for 2 hours on a foil-covered baking sheet at 200 degrees. Baked acorns do not rot and do not attract insects.
The cones also need to be baked to harden the resin. You can place them on a baking sheet with the acorns. Bake the pine cones for 1 hour.
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We wrap the foam base with jute tape. Secure the tape with a glue gun.
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Having finished the winding, secure the end of the tape with a glue gun and cut off the excess part of the tape.
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We cut off the excess threads. The base is ready.
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Attach the loop holder. With its help, the wreath will be attached to a wall or door.
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Let's start decorating the wreath.
This stage can be performed together with your child: you work with a glue gun, and your son or daughter attaches cones and acorns to the base.
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The wreath is ready! You can hang it on the wall, decorate the door with it, or place it on the table with a candle inside.
Master class on creating an autumn wreath from acorns. The wreath is created using the wet felting technique. A step-by-step description of the work and high-quality photographs fully reflect the work process.
Bright autumn colors linger in your soul for a long time. Let's create an autumn wreath of acorns with our own hands to prolong the autumn mood. Made from natural materials, it will look even more interesting.
This will decorate any interior.
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We tie the willow branches together in a circle. Let's grab the branches with sewing thread so that it doesn't fall apart. Having given the wreath its shape, we finally secure the branches with a jute cord in a circle.
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We felt an acorn from wool using the wet felting technique. Felt small pieces of wool into an oval. Using the acorn caps we adjust the size of the wool acorn.
The number of acorns depends on the size of the wreath. It didn’t turn out very big for me, so I needed 10 acorns. It turned out 5 orange and yellow acorns. Let the wool ovals dry completely, and then glue the hats with super glue.
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Let's make 2 oak leaf templates. They should differ in size and shape.
Using the template, we cut out leaves from light green and blue felt, 6 pieces of each color.
Sew the veins using a machine, but you can also do it manually with a regular sewing needle.
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Using a glue gun, glue the felt leaves together and glue them onto the wreath.
Glue acorns on top of the leaves.
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Let's cut one and a half meters of jute cord and fold it in half.
Autumn wreaths made from natural materials are most often made from the ears of valuable and weedy cereal crops. You can make a spectacular autumn wreath with your own hands from the following natural materials: straw and ears of wheat and rye, oats and buckwheat, etc.
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Such a wreath will organically fit into a country-style interior, the main elements of which are lace, wickerwork, natural materials, etc.
A wreath can be made from almost any grain. You can dry the grains you like yourself or buy ready-made ones.
It is possible to make a wreath from fresh ears of corn. Bunches of cereals are also glued with hot glue. But be prepared for the fact that as the plants dry out, they will lose their color. For example, ears of oats, initially green, become faded over time.
Before making a wreath from natural material and meadow grasses, you need to prepare all the tools and materials:
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We continue to make wreaths from natural materials, using various plants harvested from the summer for the creative process. Elegant and fragrant wreaths made of natural flowers, which have been dried and properly prepared, improve the atmosphere in the apartment and free the air from unpleasant odors.
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The craft “Wreath made of natural material” can be made with your own hands together with children of different ages. The creative process develops thinking and fine motor skills. We recommend choosing crafts such as a wreath made from natural materials for creativity with children and interior decoration. Below are some ideas.
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A beautiful decorative decoration for your home is ready!
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When autumn comes and gives us a colossal variety of colors, we always want to join nature and decorate ourselves with its works. The background of yellow-orange leaves makes for very good photos. And to look even more successful, it is best to use wreaths. Autumn head wreaths can be completely different. Here are various options for creating wreaths, depending on the purpose of their use.
It is not without reason that women have been decorating themselves with flowers or leaves woven into their hair, especially on holidays. For each occasion, special wreaths were woven; each had its own meaning and at the same time served as decoration. Before girls began wearing stones as jewelry, they wove bright berries – viburnum, rowan – into their hair. Nowadays we rarely think about what the flowers and herbs woven into a wreath mean. Contemporaries wear wreaths mainly for events associated with folk holidays, or to emphasize the heritage of Slavic traditions.
Autumn wreaths are the brightest; they were usually made for holidays dedicated to the harvest, so not only flowers and leaves were woven into them, but also fruits and ears of wheat.
Therefore, the preparation for creating an autumn wreath will be different.
For a few photos during a casual walk through the park, it will be enough to intertwine stems of colorful leaves that you find along the way.
For performances by choral or dance groups, in schools or kindergartens, when everyone should have the same wreaths, it is important to decide what you will make them from - natural or artificial. The most common and affordable material for an autumn wreath is maple leaves. They are bright, voluminous and have a fairly long stem.
For contrast, it is very good to use rowan berries. They are dense and retain their shape and color well.
It is necessary to prepare these materials, as well as prepare the base - the rim on which the leaves and berries will be attached. This could be a piece of wire decorated with threads, or old newspapers twisted with tape and wrapped in nylon tights.
Wrap the leaves to the base with a strong thread and decorate with bunches of rowan berries. If there is a sufficient quantity of other natural decorative material, then you can use it.
If you are preparing for an autumn holiday, participating in a harvest festival, for example, or in a folk-style wedding, and you need a voluminous bright wreath, the step-by-step master class below will help you.
If you put in the effort and show creativity, you can create a masterpiece with your own hands.
To create a wreath you will need:
Wrap the base with thread or nylon tights to make it easier to attach decorative components to it.
Melt the paraffin, dip each leaf and berries into it, as in the photo. Dry. Materials prepared in this way will not break and will take on a more decorative appearance. Flowers and fruits do not need to be processed this way.
This procedure is lengthy and may take a couple of hours. If you don't have time, you can use artificial leaves and berries.
Apply the prepared materials to create a composition that most advantageously harmonizes with all the prepared materials.
Attach leaves, flowers and berries with thread or glue (small parts) to the base. The wreath is ready.
For a wedding you need to choose more delicate and lighter colors of decorative material.
Girls wearing wreaths at weddings look very touching and sweet. Therefore, bridesmaids use this decoration element very willingly. You can keep the wedding wreath as a keepsake and decorate the wall of the room with it. For the bride herself, elements of a wreath are usually used, decorating her hair with them.
Flowers suit women's faces very well. And the bright and delicate shades of the autumn bouquet make their image elegant and unusual. And even professional photographers can have in their arsenal a hand-made autumn wreath that will decorate any model during an autumn photo shoot.
Below you can watch a video collection that describes in more detail the process of creating autumn head wreaths.