Rustic Acorn Craft for Fall

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Make these fun, rustic acorns to decorate wreaths, string up as garland, or as an Autumn bowl filler.

Supplies

  • White Chalk Paint
  • Pinecones
  • Small plastic Easter Egg
  • Lace ribbon or twine
  • Hot glue gun
  • Garden sheers
  • Scissors

Tips on How to Cut Pine Cones

To get started, choose a few pine cones that have a top just slightly larger than your egg rim.

The round variety

I’m sure these have a name! I found these pine cones to be very tough and they had to be cut and shaped with garden sheers.

Round Pine Cones - I'm sure these have a name! They were very tough and had to be cut with garden sheers and shaped.
Cutting the top of the pinecone off with garden shears.

Long Pine Cones

I figured out that I could just twist the tops off of the longer pine cones with my hands. If I twisted one and the top was too small, I tried to use a middle section. Some of mine were so dry they crumbled but I had a bunch so I just grabbed another one.

Top of pine after being twisted off.
Top of pine after being twisted off.
I figured out that I could just twist the tops off of the longer pine cones with my hands. Again these pine cones were super dried out so that's what worked best for me. If I twisted one and the top was too small, I tried to use a middle section.
Twisting the top off.

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How to Make Rustic Acorns

Paint the plastic Easter Eggs with White Chalk Paint and let them dry completely.

Painting plastic Easter eggs with White Chalk Paint

Hot-glue lace ribbon and/or twine onto the egg rims to decorate. Last, add a ring of hot glue around the rim of the Easter Egg to glue the pine cone top on.

Hot gluing twine to decorate.
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