DIY Giant Pine Cone Garland

This giant pine cone garland is a beautiful DIY to add to your holiday or Christmas home decor! It’s perfect as a mantle decoration, table runner, centerpiece, or garland for your porch. You’re going to love this Christmas craft idea!

Are your halls decked? If you need a little extra something to holiday-ify your house, here’s a little project with a big wow factor.

My dad recently went on a pine cone hunting expedition for me, up near our family cabin. I was expecting him to come back with your average, run-of-the-mill pine cones. But he came back with the biggest pine cones I’ve ever seen. Like, ever.

So I strung them together into a giant pine cone garland. You don’t necessarily need the big ones, but if you have ’em, you might as well use ’em.

Psst — if your halls need more decking, check out these ideas too:

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Useful Pine Cone Idea: Make Fire Starters

Did you know you can also use pine cones to make pine cone fire starters to help stoke a fire in your fireplace? They’re fun to make, too. Check out our DIY here.

How To Make a DIY Pine cone Garland

Materials

• oversized pinecones (you can also use regular sized pinecones!)
• drill with small bit
• eye screws
• super strong clear thread (like fishing line)

Make Time: 1 Hour

1. Start by drilling a starter hole into the top of a pine cone. Then insert the eye screw into the drilled hole.
2. Cut about 2 feet of bead thread and wrap it around the bottom few scales of another pine cone. Wrap tightly and secure with a double knot, leaving a tail of a few inches on one end and the rest of the thread on the other.
3. Thread the long end through the eye of the screw in the first pine cone. Then pull it taut and wrap back around the second pine cone, over the place you previously wrapped it. Ensuring that the thread stays taut, tie off with another double knot and snip the ends.
4. Now that you have two pine cones strung together, repeat the process and make your garland as long as you like!

Tips for Creating a Pine Cone Garland with Smaller Cones

A few tips if you’re using smaller pine cones! First, you can probably skip the eye screws. The eye screws really help if your pine cones are particularly large or heavy.

But feel it out with what you have — you might not need them depending on the pine cones you’re using. You might be able to just use the tying technique from Step 2 on both ends of your pine cone to attach them to one another and create your pine cone garland.

Isn’t that beautiful?! It’s such a simple process to put together but the finished product looks really high-end and lush because of the size, scale, and the fact that you can’t really see how they’re attached!

If you use the clear fishing line, it also means that the garland will be flexible so that you can adjust it. You can make it hang the way that you want from all kinds of different places. I think it could look really cool over a doorway or arch.

Tips for Hanging your Pine Cone Garland

I can’t get enough of this thing, and I’m already planning how to store it so I can bring it out again next year. If you’re planning on hanging it, just be sure that you hang from something that can support its weight, as it can get a little heavy.

How to Get Pine Cone Pitch or Sap Off of Skin

Finally, my dad gave me the expert advice that if you need to get pitch from the pine cones off of your hands, a little WD-40 does the trick.

Who knew? Have fun! And if you try our DIY, I’d be thrilled if you rated it below. xoxo

How to Make a Pine Cone Garland

Yield: Pine Cone Garland

Active Time: 1 hour

Total Time: 1 hour

Difficulty: Intermediate

Estimated Cost: $10

This oversized pine cone garland is such an easy and lovely piece of holiday decor!

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Materials

• pine cones
• eye screws
• strong clear thread

Tools

• drill

Instructions

1. Start by drilling a starter hole into the top of a pine cone. Then insert the eye screw into the drilled hole.
2. Cut about 2 feet of bead thread and wrap it around the bottom few scales of another pine cone. Wrap tightly and secure with a double knot, leaving a tail of a few inches on one end and the rest of the thread on the other.
3. Thread the long end through the eye of the screw in the first pine cone. Then pull it taut and wrap back around the second pine cone, over the place you previously wrapped it. Ensuring that the thread stays taut, tie off with another double knot and snip the ends.
4. Now that you have two pine cones strung together, repeat the process and make your garland as long as you like!

Notes

A few tips if you're using smaller pine cones! First, you can probably skip the eye screws. The eye screws really help if your pine cones are particularly large or heavy.

But feel it out with what you have -- you might not need them depending on the pine cones you're using. You might be able to just use the tying technique from Step 2 on both ends of your pine cone to attach them to one another and create your pine cone garland.

If you use the clear fishing line, it also means that the garland will be flexible so that you can adjust it. You can make it hang the way that you want from all kinds of different places. I think it could look really cool over a doorway or arch.

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