This pinecone rose craft can be made into 3D homemade Mother’s Day Cards that she will LOVE. Turn a small pinecone into a cute little rosebud to make pinecone roses with the easy Mother’s Day craft tutorial below. (First published on April 25, 2017; this post is regularly updated and republished.)
Learn how to make pinecone roses on the front of a blank greeting card for Mom with the step-by-step Mother’s Day craft tutorial below. Mom, Grandma, and Nana always love receiving homemade cards from their children and grandchildren on Mother’s Day (or her birthday).
So, use the easy pinecone craft tutorial below to learn how how to make a pinecone rose Mother’s Day card or a DIY birthday card for her. Or, invite the kids to color or paint a rose with this printable Mother’s Day Card. You might also enjoy this list of Homemade Gifts Kids Can Make for even more Mother’s Day crafts and gift ideas.
How to Make A Pinecone Rose Craft
Unless you have small pinecones in your nature craft stash, start making pinecone rose crafts by going on a nature hunt (or sending the kids off into the great outdoors) to find a few of the nature craft materials you need to make pinecone roses. Look for small pinecones, twigs (or rose stems), and fresh rose leaves. Or, we have provided a few other options you can try in the Mother’s Day craft supply list below.
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Pinecone Rose Card Mother’s Day Craft Supplies
Please read through the instructions before getting started so you know the steps involved and can make a more informed choice about the craft supplies you would like to use. This pinecone rose craft supply list includes Amazon affiliate links to some small pinecones and other craft materials you can use to make these gorgeous DIY Mother’s Day card pinecone crafts. (If you click to purchase, Rhythms of Play will earn a small commission at no extra cost.)
- Small Pinecones
- Twigs, dried rose stems, or small wooden dowels
- Fresh rose leaves or small leaf punch and dark green construction paper (optional; rose leaves can also be hand-drawn or painted)
- Acrylic or tempera paint
- Paint brushes
- Blank greeting cards with envelopes
- White glue, glue dots, or a glue gun with glue sticks
- Poster board (optional)
- Pruning sheers
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Pinecone Rose Craft Step-by-Step Directions
This easy nature craft tutorial describes making a homemade Mother’s Day card with a beautiful pinecone rose on the front. Please read through the step-by-step pinecone craft instructions below before getting started.
1. Gather the craft supplies to make pinecone rose cards and set up an area to paint.
- Choose the craft supplies you’d like to use to make pinecone rose crafts from the list above. If you use acrylic paint, ensure you protect the surface you will be working on with newspaper or a large poster board because it is permanent when it dries, while tempera paints are washable.
- The downside of tempura paints is that they do not cover many types of natural materials (such as pinecones and twigs), as well as acrylic paints can. This means you can see what’s under tempera paint after the first coat and will often need to reapply more paint, while acrylic paint is much less see-through after the first coat.
2. Paint a small pinecone rosebud color of choice.
- Paint a small pinecone red, pink, yellow, or any other color would like your small 3D rosebud to be. (We used a combination of red, pink parfait, and Fuschia acrylic paint for the pinecone roses shown on the Mother’s Day cards in the photographs.)
- My daughter painted the pinecones while holding them in her hand. When she was done, she did some pinecone process art by rolling off the excess paint onto the poster board. You can see the pink and red pinecone prints all over the poster board in the photos above and below.
- Alternatively, paint the pinecone rosebud in a small dessert bowl, baggie, or recycled container (yogurt and cottage cheese containers work great). Simply roll the pinecone around in the container with a paintbrush until it has enough paint. Or put it in a baggie with some paint and gently smush it around.
- Next, roll the excess paint off the poster board or scrap paper.
- First, choose your favorite method from the ideas above. Then invite children to make pinecone roses cards and create pinecone print process art at home or in the classroom with this fun art and craft project!
- If you want to watch how to paint a pinecone in a bowl, watch the video “How to Paint Wooden Beads.” The video shows how to paint a wooden bead, but a pinecone can be painted using the same technique.
3. Trim and Paint twigs, dried rose stems, or small wooden dowels to create a stem for each rosebud.
- Use pruning sheers to trim each twig or wooden dowel to the desired size. Three to four and a half inches long usually works well, but laying each one on the front of a blank greeting card to test for size is a good idea.
- Paint twigs or small wooden dowels to make them look like rose stems.
- My daughter used Kelly green acrylic paint to paint the twigs shown on the homemade Mother’s Day cards in the photographs.
- Allow the pinecone rosebuds and the twig or wooden dowel rose stems to dry before moving on to the next step.
4. Glue pinecone roses and twig (or dowel) stems to the front of blank greeting cards.
- First, glue the painted twig, dried rose stem, or wooden dowel onto the card.
- Next, glue the pinecone rosebud at the top of the twig to finish the pinecone rose craft.
5. Glue, draw, or paint rose leaves onto each pinecone rose card to finish Mother’s Day Craft.
- We have a wild rose bush growing in our backyard, so we picked some real leaves to glue onto our cards to finish our pinecone rosebud Mother’s Day cards.
- If you don’t have wild rose leaves growing nearby, try any of the following ideas:
- Use a green colored pencil or crayon to sketch or draw rose leaves onto the rose stem.
- Paint them with the green paint you used to paint the twig (or dowel) stem.
- Or, use green construction paper, a small leaf punch, and glue.
Pinecone Roses DIY Cards Photo Tutorial
You can see how to make pinecone rose cards in the step-by-step pinecone rosebud card photo tutorial of my daughter making them below.
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3D Rosebud Homemade Mother’s Day Cards
Mom will love this homemade pinecone rose on Mother’s Day! Make sure that you make one for Grandma and Nana too!
To complete the gift, have a look at these gorgeous homemade gifts kids can make and Gifts for Moms she is sure to LOVE.
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