Simple Pine Cone Wreath

I have a pretty amazing pine cone hoard. 

I love them.  

I’ve picked them up all over the place.  South Carolina and Georgia have the best ones.  I once collected an entire McDonald’s bag full of pine cone rosettes  from a Cedar tree while Big Daddy was engrossed in a conversation with a group of his friends.  I rolled the bag up really tight and hid them in the back floorboard of his car.  Later that same day he found them.  He thought it was a bag of garbage and tossed them in the trash.  

Boy was I pissed.

These particular pine cones are from a Norway Spruce tree that I stumbled upon quite by accident last January.  My Dad was in a physical therapy  facility For a few weeks and that tree was in the parking lot!  I’ve had them in a bag in my garage ever since.

Today I put them to use 🙂

Supply List

LOTS of pine cones

Cardboard

Ink pin

Large dinner plate or charger

Smaller dinner plate

Kitchen shears

Glue gun and glue sticks 

Spool of wide Ribbon 

First, I traced a circle on to my big piece of cardboard using a white ceramic charger as my pattern.

Then I traced a second circle about 3 inches smaller using a smallish dinner plate.

This is your wreath form.  

Once I was happy with the width of my form I cut it out with my kitchen shears.

Now just hot glue your pine cones on to your cardboard wreath form.  I did lay my pine cones out and test fit them before I glued them in place just to make sure I loved how they looked.

It takes a pretty big blob of hot glue to hold one of these pine cones in place.

Here’s how my wreath turned out!

While I was shooting these pictures my gears in my head started turning…..

The possibilities for this project are only limited by the sizes of the pine cones you can find.

*****Disclaimer*****

Zero dollars were spent on this project

Paige

Blogs I love!

http://www.findingsilverpennies.com

http://www.stonegableblog.com

http://www.astrollthrulife.net/?m=1

http://www.savvysouthernstyle.net/?m=1

http://theessenceofhome.blogspot.com/?m=1

http://seekinglavenderlane.com