Uses for Pinecones?

If they're the nice big ones that I'm thinking about, why not bag a bunch of them and put them up for sale in eBay a few weeks before Christmas?

I saw this GIANT pinecone that was frosted with white glitter and large beads and made into little fat Christmas trees. This was about a foot tall cone.

I have seen them sprinkled with glitter and with beads for ornaments, like little Christmas trees. Lay it on the side, make a turkey head out of paper, and fan out either paper feathers or actual ones in back for turkey tail feathers. I would probably run wire around the back and wire them onto a wreath. That is all I can come up with right now. Fill them with peanut butter or suet, cover with bird seed, hang as feeders for wild birds. Okay, now I am done.

I feel pine cones aren't just for Christmas. You can collect them, find baskets at the thrift shops and make arrangements with roses, baby's breath and some rose oil mixed in with the filler so that it would be a wonderful smelling arrangement...I use silk roses. You can modify it with other flowers or natural dried botanical items so that you can have it to suit many tastes. I did see some wonderful door hangers done with three pine cones suspended from a gold or silver tone cord with a big red and green plaid ribbon bow at the top. Also, you can place the pine cones in a basket with clear mini lights strung through the arrangement so that it can be plugged in and it makes a beautiful arrangement. The one my mom bought (and paid a horrible price for it too...it was around $50!!!)had pine cones, baby's breath, lights and fake red apples in a bushel basket (or apple basket).

Oh I always collect pinecones here at Christmas time and make table displays up out of them, I usually will spray with gold or silver paint and then put a large candle in the middle for the meal table. I also spray individual ones for the Christmas tree as decoration too. The lovely pine fragrance of them burning on the fire is lovely though. I use orange peel too for this effect. In fact another idea would be to spray some essential oil on them and put in a basket as an air freshner and also add in dried orange peel and flower petals. Have fun with it but they do sound too lovely to burn I agree. Ellie :D

I used to have a lovely Christmas decoration that was lost in my cross-country move. It was a bit pine cone that was made to look like a reindeer, with googly eyes glued on, antlers and a smile. I always hung it in the entrance to the hallway from the living room. You could use them that way but fire starters are a good use, too.

They look darn good when there sprayed and dipped in glitter,then built into a pile on a dish.they make a great centrepiece at christmas on the table.