Make your own beautiful DIY pinecone gnome to add to your tree this year, or simply make a few as handmade gifts for friends and family. Either way, check out just how I put this gut together right here in this simple tutorial!

Diy pinecone gnome

Check out these stride by step instructions, complete with photos! If you lot're more of a video tutorials mind of person, gyre to the lesser of this post to find one of those instead of a written guide.

For this projection, yous'll demand:

  • Bluish batik newspaper
  • A wooden disc
  • A spun cotton ball
  • Pink paint
  • A paintbrush
  • Red and blackness felt
  • Pipe cleaners (blue, white, and orange)
  • Pair of scissors
  • Hot mucilage
  • A dotting tool

Step 1: preparation

Gather your materials for the arts and crafts!

Diy pinecone gnome materials

Step 2: pigment the head

Poke your dotting tool into your spun cotton ball and then employ your paintbrush to pigment the entire thing light pinkish. Set information technology aside to dry. Set it bated to dry.

Diy pinecone gnome step 2

Stride 3: make the easily and arms

Cut a piece about two inches long off your blue pipe cleaner. Turn the ends of this new slice inward, making each one await like a curlicue. Then bend the slice in half, not creased sharply into a V-shape just more arced into a U-shape. This slice volition be your gnome's easily and arms.

Diy pinecone gnome step 2

Pace 4: make the legs and feet

Cut what'due south left of your original slice in one-half. Curl i end of each of these pieces inwards again, creating more than of a spiral now than just a curl merely leaving the other end of each piece straight. These will be your gnome's legs and feet.

Diy pinecone gnome step 1

Step v: utilize the blue paper

Cutting a foursquare slice about ii inches by two inches from the corner of your piece of blue newspaper. Then, starting at one corner and arcing over to the one diagonally across from information technology, cutting a curved line that rounds off the corner that sits betwixt the two.

Diy pinecone gnome step 4

Diy pinecone gnome step 5

Footstep half-dozen: glue the hat

Utilize hot glue forth one directly edge of your new blueish shape, from pointed tip to rounded off edge. Whorl the other border inwards, rolling it towards the edge with the glue. You should see a cone shape forming, with a pointed tip at one end and a circular opening at the other terminate. Stick the glued edge down where it meets in your curling. This will be your gnome'due south lid!

Diy pinecone gnome apply

Footstep 7: glue the caput

Apply gum in the inside border of the circular opening and fit the hat onto the gnome'southward caput, nonetheless on your dotting tool.

Diy pinecone gnome top

Step 8: draw the face

Use your markers or felt tipped pens to draw your gnome's face up on the painted spun cotton ball. I used black for the optics, nose, and rima oris and blood-red for the cheeks.

Diy pinecone gnome step 8

Step ix: glue the pinecone

Plow your pinecone upside downward so the flattest office is at the tiptop and utilise hot glue. Stick your gnome'south head down there.

Diy pinecone gnome hat

Footstep 10: add the limbs

Apply hot mucilage to the bend in the U-shaped arm slice you made before and stick it backside the gnome's head, where the spun cotton ball and the pinecone meet. Then utilise hot gum to the uncurled tips of the pipe cleaner legs you lot made before and stick them to the pointed bottom of the pinecone, between the pieces.

Diy pinecone gnome legs

Step 11: details

Cutting a 2 inch piece from your orange piping cleaner and apply gum in the middle. Stick it downwards behind the gnome's caput over again, effectually the aforementioned spot as where you stuck the blue piping cleaner arms. Bend the ends of the orange slice around the front end of the gnome'south neck and twist them together. Your gnome now has a scarf!

Diy pinecone gnome kids

Step 12: finishing up

Cut a one inch piece from the end of your white pipe cleaner and curl it into a little ball. Apply glue to the bottom of the brawl and stick it to the tip of the bluish hat. Next, cut some other slice of white pipe cleaner about an inch or so long. Apply glue to the back of the gnome'southward caput near the edge of the blue hat where it meets the spun cotton fiber brawl and stick i terminate of your white pipe cleaner down. Curl information technology carefully all the way effectually the balance of the hat'south edge until information technology meets again with its other end at the back. Trim off any excess and glue your loose end downward.

Diy pinecone gnome tabletop

Step 13: voila!

Use hot glue to the lesser of your gnome's feet and stick information technology in identify on the wooden disc. Feel free to bend and shape the legs and feet however you need to get the gnome to stand upright the way y'all desire.

Diy pinecone gnome rustic

Yous're officially washed once your gnome can stand on his disc! Simply in case you'd like to attempt this project out for yourself, here's a fantastic tutorial video to aid you!