Make pretty unique miniature Christmas trees with pinecones in three easy steps in this Christmas craft project.

What you need:

• A fully opened, dried pinecone
• assorted beads, small silk flowers or other small decorations
• 1 drink bottle cap or metal bottle cap
• green or gold acrylic craft paint and a paint brush, or even metallic spray paint
• craft glue
• tweezers
• optional: glitter or glitter glue
Pine Cone Christmas Tree

Project Instructions:

1. Paint the pinecone completely green or gold. Add sparkle If desire by dusting the pinecone with glitter while the paint is still wet. Alternatively, wait until the paint is dry, then randomly add glitter glue to the tips of the pinecone.

2. Glue the bottle cap to the bottom of the pine cone.

3. To add beads, small silk flowers or other Christmas embellishments, use tweezers to dip each piece into a small puddle of craft glue, then into a space on the pinecone. Make sure that you push each bead or embellishments firmly into place.

Be creative and there are no limits to what you can do!