[For Seniors] Recommended Pine Cones! Craft Idea Collection
You can pick up pinecones that have fallen to the ground all year round, right?
You’ve probably often seen them lying around in parks with pine trees.
Why not try a craft activity using familiar pinecones at your facility? It keeps material costs down, and with a bit of creativity, you can make plenty of different pieces.
So this time, we’re introducing a collection of pinecone craft ideas for older adults.
Craft activities use the fingertips a lot and stimulate the brain, helping to prevent dementia or slow its progression.
Pinecones are familiar to many seniors and may bring back past memories or moments with their children.
Please make these together while staying close and supportive to the older adults.
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For Seniors: Recommended Pine Cone Crafts! Ideas Collection (21–30)
Owl made of felt and pine cones
Here’s an idea for making owls using pine cones and felt.
Use a pine cone as the base for the owl.
Cut the owl’s eyes, beak, wings, and facial parts from your choice of felt.
Once you glue the parts onto the base, it’s complete.
Using felt in various colors will make your owl look vibrant.
It’s a fun idea that brings out each maker’s individuality.
Try adding patterns to the wings or designing the eyes to evoke a bird of prey.
Hero Owl
If you want to make an owl that’s a little different from the usual, how about this hero-inspired idea? Use a pine cone as the base.
Cut the face and wing parts out of felt, but add a twist! Instead of using ordinary brown felt, imagine a hero’s decorations and craft the pieces with armor- and shield-like designs.
Even the cute eyes can take on a cool, raptor-like look by adding just one extra piece.
Finish it as your ideal hero owl.
Pine Cone Owl – Christmas Decoration
Would you like to make an owl Christmas ornament? Start with a pine cone as the owl’s base and attach eyes, wings, and a beak cut from thin leather or felt.
Then add a red triangular hat made from fabric or a yarn pom-pom to give it a Santa-style look.
Your owl is now complete! Next, glue the owl onto a base made from cardboard and decorate around it with faux greenery, nuts, and other natural accents.
You can leave the cardboard as is, or paint it white and add cotton to create a snowy scene.
Owl made of horse chestnuts and pine cones
Here’s an idea for making an owl using a pine cone, horse chestnut shells, and tree branches.
Cut off the base of the pine cone and attach sticker eyes.
Use the split horse chestnut shells to add decorative feathers, a beak, side wings, and back feathers.
Make feet on a base using small twigs, then glue on the owl body you just made.
Your pine cone owl is complete.
You’ll be cutting the horse chestnut shells with scissors, so please be careful not to get hurt.
You can also use a colored ginkgo nut for the beak.
A beautiful owl made with yarn and pine cones
Perfect for winter decorations! Here’s a beautiful owl idea that can also be used as an ornament.
Glue a looped string to the bottom of a pine cone for hanging.
Wrap yarn around your fingers several times, tie the center with string to make a bow, then attach it at the base of the string you just glued.
Add a yarn ball for the beak and a tassel-shaped piece of yarn for the back wings.
For the side wings, make pom-poms and glue them on.
For the eyes, wrap yarn around your fingers like the bow to form rings, then stitch or weave more yarn around the rings and place a black bead in the center.
Attach the eyes to the front of the pine cone, and you’re done.
Owl decorations with a focus on feathers
Let’s make an owl you can hang on the wall as a decoration.
First, cut out the owl’s base from cardboard.
Take apart a pine cone into individual scales, and start gluing them onto the base along with a tree branch.
Glue the branch to the lower part of the base, and use the pine cone scales on the other areas to create the wings.
Make two round bases for the eyes out of cardboard, then glue jute twine onto them in a spiral.
Attach the black pupils cut from felt.
Glue on the beak, add a string for hanging, and you’re done.
Simple and cute! Pinecone tree
This is a cute pinecone tree you can easily make with materials from a 100-yen shop—as long as you have a pinecone.
You can use a store-bought pinecone or one you picked up on a walk.
To make it, simply decorate the pinecone with beads and pipe cleaners however you like, then fix it to a base made from a plastic bottle cap.
Crafts that use the fingertips are very effective for seniors’ hand rehabilitation and dementia prevention.
If you’ve picked up the pinecone outdoors, be sure to sterilize it by boiling it beforehand so seniors can enjoy crafting safely and with peace of mind.
In conclusion
When it comes to pine cone crafts, the shape probably brings Christmas trees to mind.
But with a little creativity, you can make all kinds of things besides Christmas trees.
It could also be fun to pick up pine cones and make something after taking a walk to the park with older adults.
Please do create some wonderful pieces!