Wintry Pine Cone Wind Chime Terhi-tivity
My favorite season, winter, starts right after Thanksgiving at our house! There are no icy snowflakes on the corners of the windows, nor is there any snow in the ground, but I won't let that bother me. Instead, I will create a winter wonderland of our own and fake the season, right here in sunny San Diego.
Our family loves to go on day trips to our local mountains. We always look for nature treasures during our hikes and visits to the day use areas of nature preserves and state parks. We had gathered up a huge bag full of pine cones and now I had an idea of making a wind chime out of them.
After working on the chime under our carport, we moved it to our back patio. Now the fake snow and glitter add sparkles into our living room through the windows.
If you'd like to make your own pine cone wind chime, you will need the following items:
- a big tree branch
- pine cones
- fishing line
- spray can of fake snow
- glitter (Any color would do. I chose iridescent glitter.)
The tricky part of this project is attaching the pine cones to the fishing line. I just kept on twirling the fishing line around each pine cone multiple times and that seemed to do the trick. These pine cones were quite large. Little ones would make a cute small pine cone chime!
Let me know if I inspired you to make one too! Until it's time to fake the season again...
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