Last week, LB and I headed out to the backyard common area to hunt for some pinecones, or "pine-tones", as we like to call them. There are a ton of them around right now, I think because spring is springing and we just had a big wind storm last weekend. We had fun filling and dumping the bucket and carrying the bucket and counting, and yelling, "oh no, pine-tone!" We brought our pinecones into the house, and there they sat, in their bucket, for a couple of days.
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| I'm goin' on a cone hunt! |
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| Collecting some pine-tones |
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| Some of our haul. The number changed often, due to gathering and dumping variables. |
Hmmm, what to do with the pine-tones? There are a lot of crafts we could do, but I was trying to think of something that included materials we already had (ie, we had PB for birdfeeders, but no bird seed...next time). I read somewhere that it was fun to use the pinecones as a painting tool...so we gave that a try...
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| Trying to roll the pine-tones |
It was a litle tricky to dip and roll the pincones because of their shape. I think longer, skinnier, squishier ones would have been better. But alas, ours were cute and stumpy and pretty stiff! So, we settled on painting the actual pinecones. That was fun!
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| The more successful painting of the pine-tones |
Then we needed something to jazz them up. I didn't have any glitter, but we did have some very fancy glittery shamrock stickers from Grandma, so we let the paint dry, and made a cute little St. Patty's day decoration!
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| Stickering the pine-tones |
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| Getting our St. Patty's Day celebrations started! |
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