Spring wreath of cones you can have completely free: to a higher level it will be promoted by ordinary acrylic colors

Today we will describe how to make beautiful decorative wreaths from pine cones. These are ideal for this case. If you can collect a few larch cones, the better. Such cones are smaller and perfectly complement the pine trees.

How to make a wreath of cones – clear instructions in this YouTube video:

Allow the collected cones to dry at home, which will open. They will resemble the shape of the flowers Ao we do.

Preparation of the necessary material

Prepare if you have at home, or you have to jump into the store, the following: The aforementioned pine and larch cones. Furthermore, the corpus on the wreath, preferably from straw or wicker, at worst even the polystyrene one. The shape is up to you, you can choose a traditional round or in the shape of a heart. For May, love it is approaching. In two months he’s a horse. Also string or hanging wires. Floor pistol, to the brush and acrylic colors. You will also need gardening scissors and something to decorate, such as ribbons of different colors.

Production itself

Cut each open cone in the middle to create a flower at the bottom. And now it is dyeing. You can call children to work, it would certainly be instructive and fun for them. As for the choice of colors, there are no limits to imagination.

Furthermore, prepared wreath, corpus, wrap the wire (or string) and make a eye at one point to hang. Then gradually stick one colored cone after another to the body with the help of a melting gun. Here we will add that if you set out on the way of polystyrene body, which usually has a white color, it is worth gluing the cones to stain it so that white polystyrene between the cones does not shine and does not spoil the overall impression.

And you’re done. When the wreath serves well for example in the spring, you can keep it carefully and come up with it next year.

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