How to make Christmas ornaments with pineapples

To choose from pine pineapples to decorate Your table, or for any of the following crafts, you will have to collect throughout the year those you find in The excursions that you do to the mountain or in the park, that they are open and no longer have pine nutsits seeds, since these must stay in the environment so that our action interferes as little as possible in it. In addition, remember not to take all the ones you see, because you are not going to need many but the ecosystem does need them, since they are food for some animals and for plants, when decomposing. At the same time that you have been collecting pineapples you can get some sprigs and leaves that you see beautiful, again without exceeding. Once you have them and clean them a little you can start the crafts.

If you wonder how to do Christmas ornaments with pine pineapplesto start a good idea to give a Christmas touch to the home is to prepare Decorated pineapples To make a centerpiece and, in this way, do ours with what we have by hand or can reuse from other years. For example, if you have a center that is already a little old or something broken do not throw it, better propose to the family to make crafts together and fix it with some dry and decorated pineapples. Follow these instructions for make a Christmas centerpiece:

Materials

• Tray, plate or hard foam taco
• Several pine pineapples
• Long candles
• Twigs
• Dry leaves
• Moss
• Glue or tail
• Paint
• Purpurine
• Tapes or tapes

We remind you that it is important that glue, paint and glitter are products Non -toxic and suitable for children.

Steps

1. To make the centerpiece you can choose to decorate it with Painted or natural pineapples.
2. You will need a base to make the center such as a tray, a plate or a taco of foam.
3. You can gather several branches, leaves and even moss to cover the base of the center, if you do it in a foam, try to nail it well and if you use a flatter base, paste or tie all parts well for Create a base that you can place on the plate or tray.
4. Decorate the pineapples dry if you don’t want them natural. You can use Paints and glittermainly in green, red, gold and silver for being more Christmas.
5. Once they are dry, place them next to each other on the edge of the base, between the moss, the leaves and the branches, to leave the free medium to place a couple of long candles.
6. If pineapples and candles do not hold well, you can apply a little glue in their base. Finally, you can place some loop or tape.

If you want to decorate your Christmas tree, some walls or corners or even the fireplace a very decorative, economical, simple and natural idea is make garlands with dry pine pineapples.

Material

• Dry and clean pineapples
• We cancer or females
• Tape or cord

Instructions

1. At the base of each pineapple, a carcam.
2. Pass the tape, string or cord through the holes of each nail or, in case they are semi -bordered in the form of a hook, you can pierce the tape to pass the nail.
3. Go by placing them in a leaving the same distance, for example 5 cm or up to 20 cm, as you prefer.

Although you can decorate the pineapples with paint, we recommend that you leave them natural, as well as that the color of the tape is also of a natural or Christmas tone, since it will accompany more to the decoration of this era.

At this outstanding time of the year it is tradition to place a Christmas tree at home and decorate it with balls, lights, garlands and a star on the tip. In addition, other ornaments can be placed, such as pine pineapples.

Can Painting pineapples with glitter and paintings and place a piece of thread or string by making a loop to be able to pass it through the branches of the tree. Another idea is pineappleyou simply have to place a string bond in the broad base to hang them, hook a couple of twigs that simulate the horns on each side, paint the eyes and nose, or do them with felt and paste them, and place under the horns a couple of small leaves or use felt to make the ears.

Another of the most creative options to make Christmas ornaments with dry pineapples is to make candles with them, they will have this curious shape and will give a warm touch and according to the time to your home. For Make candles with pine pineapples Follow these steps:

Material

1. Dry pineapples, as many as candles you want to do
2. Lights
3. Colored or white candles
4. Saves to melt the wax

Instructions

1. Cut a wick around the top of each pineapple, make a knot near the pineapple and cut two or three fingers away.
2. Put into the water bath in different staves a candle of each color or, white candles and leave them like this or add the dyes that are loved.
3. When they are melted, the fire seals separates and let them temperate a little so as not to burn and begin to submerge each pineapple taking them out of the wick and immerse to cover the knot. If the wax cools too much again to heat it to continue making the candles.
4. The more times the pineapple plus wax layers will have and the candle will be thicker.
5. Let them dry supporting the base on a newspaper or newspaper that you can later take away or trim. So you will have pineapple candles ready.

Finally, you can also make a special ornament for the door as a Christmas crown with pineapples:

Material

• Pine pineapples
• Pinaza, twigs, leaves and dry flowers
• Buy a crown base in a craft store or in a florist or do it with cardboard or cardboard
• White tail, glue or silicone

Steps

1. Once you have the base of the crown, glue the pineapples in it by placing them sideways. It is advisable to leave the natural pineapples, but you can paint them if you prefer.
2. The pineza, the twigs, the leaves and the flowers around the pineapples stand.
3. Add a Christmas tape or bow.
4. Place a string ties or a cancer in the crown to hang it well at the door and thus give it a nice Christmas touch.

Now that you have known these ideas to make Christmas ornaments with pineapples, you may want to discover these other recycled Christmas ornaments. You may also be interested in knowing these recycled Christmas trees.

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