Parent and Tot Project !

October 2, 2008

Pine cone

Pumpkin

I had a grand idea and while it didn’t turn out the way I envisioned it was still fun to make with my son and I will share it here.

Gather your materials. You will need pine cones, paint, a green pipe cleaner and a hot glue gun.
Start by mixing red and yellow together to make orange paint. This craft uses a lot of paint so we took this opportunity to have a color lesson and my son loves to mix paint.
My plan was to use a paint brush but my son found that rolling the pine cones was faster and better than a brush. So roll!
Let the pine cones dry.
This is the parent part of the craft, I used a ton of hot glue ! Lay out the first level and then glue together.
Add another layer or two. filling in the gaps.
When you are happy that it looks like a pumpkin twist the pipecleaner to look like a stem and glue it in.
Try not to hurt your husband when you ask him if he knows what it is and he replies ” Cute Grapes!” .

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