Pine Cone Christmas Tree

Pine cones are natures free craft supplies and with a big ‘ole bag of them and a foam cone you can make a gorgeous Pine Cone Christmas Tree to add to your DIY Christmas decor this holiday season!

Pine Cone Christmas Tree with faux snow underneath, greenery added in, a string of white fairy lights, and a gold glitter star on top.

I had been wanting to make one of these uh-maz-ing Pine Cone Christmas Trees for the longest time and we finally made one as my first ever paid live workshop that we had on Zoom!

These trees look like they would be really difficult to make, but they are actually fairly easy. Just a little time consuming and takes a bit of patience, but once its done you have a beautiful masterpiece to display for Christmas!

The best part of this workshop? We did it in JULY! For Christmas in July! You can’t tell in this pic, but I’ve got on shorts with that T-shirt.

Hence the Patriotic and summer crafts and decor in the background LOL!

Amanda holding the completed pine cone christmas tree wearing a red santa scarf .

Lucky for you, I made a Pine Cone Christmas Tree before we had the live workshop, so I was able to get some photos of the process for you and give you this free tutorial.

So go to your backyard or the nearest park, grab you a bag of Pine Cones, and I’ll show you how to make this Pine Cone Christmas Tree!

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Supplies Needed to Make Pine Cone Christmas Tree

Unopened pack of fairy lights, greenery picks, foam cone, and 3 pine cones. All the supplies to make the project.

Foam cone (any size, but the bigger the cone the bigger the tree. I used a 9″)
Pine cones 25-35 depending on the size. I used a variety of sizes
Faux Pine and Holly Berry picks
Fairy lights (optional)
Gold star
Cardboard
Hot glue gun

How to Make a Pine Cone Christmas Tree

You can use any size Pine Cones to make this Christmas Tree, and they do not have to be the same size, although they can. If you are using different sizes like me, then I would use the larger cones at the base, and as you work your way up use the smaller ones.

My pine cones were 5″, 4″, and 3″ as you can see below.

3 pine cones on a craft mat from biggest to smallest showing 5", 4", and 3".

Use a bowl or something round to trace and cut a circle out of cardboard for the base. Mine was about 8″ diameter. It should extend about 2″ around the foam cone, so that the base pine cones have something to rest on.

A bowl being traced onto a piece of cardboard to get a perfect circle.

Glue your foam cone to the center of the cardboard base.

A foam cone glued to the center of a circle of cardboard base.

Now for the fun part! We glue!

Using a generous amount of glue, and taking your time to make sure each one properly dries, begin to glue the pine cones around the base of the foam cone using the largest cones that you have.

A foam cone glued to a circle cardboard base with one pine cone glued to the bottom left.

Work your way all the way around the base of the cone getting the pine cones as close together as possible, but don’t worry about any gaps as we will fill them in later.

A foam cone glued to a circle cardboard base with 4 pine cones glued around the bottom.

Continue to work your way up the foam cone, using the smaller pine cones as you go (if you have different sizes).

A foam cone glued to a circle cardboard base with pine cones glued all around the cone from the bottom up.

A foam cone glued to a circle cardboard base with pine cones glued all around the cone from the bottom up to about halfway up to the cone.

Here’s what it looks like from above. It doesn’t have to be perfect or even, any blank spots will be filled in with greenery so that you cant see the foam cone.

Birds eye view of the in progress pine cone christmas tree.

Once you get all the way to the top, pick the perfect cone to put directly on top standing up to finish off the shape of the tree.

Pine cones completed and glued to a foam cone to make a pine cone christmas tree.

Once you are all done, you probably have a bunch of spots where the pine cones didn’t quite fit together and you can see the foam cone in between.

Close up showing the gaps in the pine cones where you can see the foam cone.

Now you’ll take your greenery picks and stick them in each spot to fill them in. You should be able to stick them right into the cone, and shouldn’t even need any glue.

Greenery picks stuck in all the gaps of the pine cones so that you can't see the white of the foam cone.

Add a string of portable fairy lights or battery operated lights from Dollar Tree to really up the beauty on this!

The completed pine cone christmas Tree with a string of white fairy lights and a gold glitter star on top.

Put the finishing touch on your Pine Cone Christmas Tree by gluing a gold star on top (Or whatever tree topper you like).

I craft with Pine Cones alllllll the time, have you seen the Pine Cone Heart Wreath we made for Valentines? What have YOU made with Pine Cones?

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