How to Make a Pinecone Wreath

Detail DIY Pine Cone Wreath With Lights Pine Berries, Remodelaholic

How to Make a Pinecone Wreath

Spruce up your home with a touch of nature! 🌲 Learn how to make a gorgeous Pinecone Wreath in just 60 minutes. 🍁 Check out our step-by-step guide!

Ingredients

55-65 pine cones sorted into 3 size groups (small, medium, large) of about the same number in each grouping
12" wire wreath form
hot glue gun and hot glue sticks
optional: LED fairy lights
optional: evergreen branches real or synthetic
optional: berry sprigs.

Instructions

Step 1: Glue medium pinecones to inner wires

Start with the inner ring of the wire wreath form. Take cones from the medium size group, add a dab of hot glue on each of the two inner rings, and quickly place the first pine cone onto the hot glue.
Repeat the step until you have glued an entire circle of pine cones like shown below, to fill the inner ring of the wreath frame.
Space the pinecones as evenly as possible, but don't worry too much about gaps -- that's where the evergreen sprigs and other fillers come into play!

Step 2: Glue large pine cones to the outer wires

Using the largest pinecones from the biggest size group, glue a whole circle of pine cones onto the two outer wires of the metal frame.
The process is the same as in Step 1. Fill the outer ring with large pine cones.

Step 3: Glue small pine cones to the middle

Using pine cones from the smallest size group, glue them to cover all the middle gaps.
These cones are a little trickier to glue than the first two groups, but just find a spot where it rests securely on the cones below. Use a lot of hot glue on the bottom of the small cones to stick them securely.
Vary the direction of the cones a bit to make it look more natural.
Now you have a basic pinecone wreath!

Step 4: Decorate with greenery and berries

There are many ways to decorate this wreath, such as ribbons, green foliage, colorful berries, small ornaments... Just have fun!
I took some evergreen cuttings and sprigs of berries, and tucked them in between the pine cones. How easy is that? You can secure with a bit of glue as needed.

Step 5: Add fairy lights

Of course we can get more festive and add some LED fairy lights!
These lights operate on small battery packs that are easy to hide. Simply twine the lights around the pinecones and/or the wire form until it looks good to you.

Notes

Where to Get Pine Cones

If you don't have the time and opportunity to gather your own pinecones, you can check out some options to purchase pinecones on Amazon or Etsy.

DIY Pine Cone Wreath Variations

There are so many ways you can customize a DIY pine cone wreath to fit just the style you'd like and add a festive touch to match your decor.

Paint or bleach the pinecones

For a snowy pinecone look, you can bleach pine cones to remove some of the color -- or it's even simpler to paint them. Flat white spray paint or watered down white paint applied by dipping or brushing will both give your pinecones a bleached look without any bleach needed.

If you'd like a more colorful pinecone wreath, you can also spray paint the pinecones in various holiday colors before assembling the wreath. For a more transparent color, take a note from our favorite colorwashing wood stain trick - just water down the paint, then brush it on or dip the pinecones right in the thinned paint.

Make glitter pinecones

To make glitter pinecones, just paint a bit of ModPodge or glue on the tips of the pine cones, then roll them in fine glitter and let dry. You can also use spray glitter to make it even easier. The added glitter will look amazing when the lights are turned on!

Use other greenery

Pine and berries are classic -- you can add any other greenery that you can find in your yard or at the Christmas tree lot! Fir tree clippings, cedar sprigs, eucalyptus branches, even some additional bare twigs for texture. Real or faux greenery will look great with the pinecone backdrop and add natural elements.

Add other accessories

Add a ribbon bow to the wreath, or tuck in ribbon to form loops (like we do to decorate the Christmas tree).

You could also add pom poms (here's how we make bunch fast), small Christmas ornaments, Christmas flowers, or a decorative red cardinal or other bird, too.