How To Put Pinecones On A Stick

Spray adhesive method step 1.

How to put pinecones on a stick. Place the hook in the wire over a pine cone petal and push it down as near as possible to the centre of the cone. The scales on the cones should be slightly to fully opened. Start with a pine cone and one length of florists stubbing wire with a hook on one end. Insert a bamboo skewer into the hole and add hot glue to the bottom.

Shake the pine cone to get rid of excess paint as you draw it out of the paint. Spray the pine cones with adhesive to cover the entire pine cone with an even coating of glitter use the spray. Tightly closed cones make concealing the wire difficult. Sprinkle glitter on pine cone sprinkle glitter on the pine cone using a paper or plastic plate to catch the.

Pull the wire tight and rotate the pine cone three quarters of a turn. My technique is to pick off some of the bottom scales on the pine cone on one side which will become the back side lay a stick against the pine cone and then wrap floral wire around to secure it. Cut six large pinecones in half crosswise with a hacksaw. Shake off excess glitter.

Set all six aside. Gather evergreen cones from under pine redwood cedar sugar pine or other evergreen trees. Drill a hole in the center of the bottom half. For the support stick you could use a dowel or even a wooden bbq skewer.