Do you love the smell of the cinnamon pine cones the store sell? I’m sharing how to make pine cones smell like cinnamon and display them for your home.
Prep Work
Depending on where you live, your pine cones might have bugs in them if you collected them from outside.
You have 2 options for getting rid of them.
- Place the pine cones in a bag, squeeze out most of the air, seal it, and leave it for a week.
- Place the pine cones on a foil lined baking sheet. Preheat your oven to 250 degrees, and bake for 25 minutes.
Essential Oil Method
The first way to make cinnamon pine cones is to place them in a baggie or container of your choice.
Add drops of cinnamon essential oil to the pine cones in the bag.
The more you use the stronger they’ll be.
Close the bag or container up.
Leave for minimum of 24 hours and up to 1 week.
The longer you leave it the stronger the scent is absorbed.
Cinnamon Spice Method
If you prefer to use natural cinnamon I’ll share 3 options with you.
- Spray the pine cone with an adhesive spray and then apply the cinnamon.
- Spray on Mod Podge Ultra, and then apply the cinnamon.
- Paint on Mod Podge, and then apply the cinnamon.
Let this dry completely.
Time To Display
I placed a battery operated strand of LED lights with a timer in the bottom of this bowl.
The timer works by turning it on at say 4pm, then it will run for 6-8 hours and auto turn off. The next day the timer will auto turn on at 4pm.
I placed some of the cinnamon pine cones in the bowl, twisted the LED light strand among the pine cones, and then repeated adding pine cones and twisting in the lights.
Here is the completed pine cone display with the lights.
Here’s the display in some dim light.
Other Options
Here are some other ideas of what you could do with cinnamon pine cones:
- Display them in a vase alone or with the lights or tealight
- Display them in an empty lantern
- Use some twine/jute and create a garland
- Hot glue them to a wreath form for a pine cone wreath
- Add a little twine/jute to the top and create an air freshener or ornament.
I placed my display on my dining room table.
Do you like the table runner? My friend Diane at South House Designs makes them.
I love that I’ll be able to enjoy these for fall and winter.
I also love how I’ll leave my table runner up all year as well, and you can check it out here.
A little tip, when the season is done, pack some of these in with your fall/winter decor.
Next year when you open your boxes it will smell lovely.
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I was LITERALLY just about to make these—except I’m using a fall blend of spices instead of just cinnamon! You are brilliant friend!
Happy day!
karianne
Thank you so much KariAnne and I’m thrilled you’re going to make some and not buy them too. They’re SO easy!
Thanks for this post Chas! Just in the nick of time for my fall decorating. I almost bought them on my way out of Michaels yesterday. So glad I didn’t! I should have known that you would have me covered! Thank you!
Thank you so much Denise for the kind words. I’m thrilled you want to make these, and please let me know how it goes.
I love the smell of pine cones!
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Thank you for sharing at #OverTheMoon. Pinned and shared. Have a lovely week. I hope to see you at next week’s party too! Please stay safe and healthy. Come party with us at Over The Moon! Catapult your content Over The Moon! @marilyn_lesniak @EclecticRedBarn
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Me too and these don’t cost a small fortune to make 🙂
Chas,
I have so many pine cones and I can’t wait to make some of these. Congratulations, you are being featured on TFT today. I hope you stop by. http://www.eclecticredbarn.com/2020/09/thursday-favorite-things-party.html.
Hugs,
Bev
Thank you so much Beverly! I’m thrilled you want to make some and they’re so much cheaper to make than buy at the store.
YAY now I can feature you at the To grandma’s house we go link party! I love this!
LOL, thank you so much Tarah! You’re the best!
I love this and can’t wait to try it!! Thanks for the tutorial and sharing it at Charming Homes & Gardens! I’m excited to feature you this week!
Thank you so much Kristin, they are so easy to make and you save so much money 🙂
I love this idea! I have always bought the smelly good pinecones at Michaels. Now that I have a friend like you, I can make my own! Love it, pinned it, and so glad you will be featured tomorrow at Charming Homes and Gardens!
Thank you so much Kim, and I’m thrilled you will try this. It saves money and you can make so many fun things with them.
Chas,
Love this. So excited to be featuring your lovely tutorial tomorrow on Charming Homes & Gardens.
Rachel
Thank you so much Rachel, such an honor and I’ll see you at the next party!