Nature Fun With Your Kids: Make Pinecone Animals!
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Picking up pinecones is a fun activity for fall walks. These little pine cone beasties and cupcake toppers (below) I made last year for The Week Junior are something fun to try once you get home!
To make the animals, besides the pinecones, all you'll need is some colored paper, scissors, and pipe cleaners. If you can’t fine them outside, you can buy pinecones in a craft store or online!
Get your kids to make them into Thanksgiving place cards! (Tie a little tag with your guest's name on it to each animal...or just stick one at each place setting).
Head to The Week Junior’s website to download the instructions (scroll down to the very bottom to download past activities and then scroll down to Nov. 5th, 2021)!
For these animal face cupcake toppers, I used pinecone scales to make ears and the lion's mane and thin twigs for the deer antlers! Cereal boxes are the perfect thin cardboard for this kind of project.
Go to The Week Junior’s website’s Activities section, scroll to the bottom and click on the archive to download these and many other instructions (also below) and scroll to October 2, 2020.
By the way, for found pine cones, you may want to clean and de-bug them before you craft. I haven’t tried this technique but it seems like a good one to not only the cones but to get them to ‘bloom” open.
Happy crafting!