Pinecone Crafts

• A large pine cone                    
• Piping bag
• Peanut butter                       
• Plastic bag
• Pair of scissors
• String
• Bite size bits for birds to eat ( nuts, dried fruit, cheese, oats or anything else that birds would like)

• Fill the plastic bag with the peanut butter.

• Now cut a small hole in one of the corners.

• Pipe the peanut butter into all the nooks and crannies of the pine cone.

• The peanut butter will help cement all the bits and pieces that you are going to use to feed the birds.

• Make sure that each scale has a little peanut butter on it.

• Now cut up all the nuts, dried fruit, cheese etc into very small    pieces.

• Stick the bite size bits for the birds in between the scales.

• Make sure they are cemented firmly in the peanut butter and fill all the layers of the cone.

• Secure some string at the top of the cone to hang it up.

• A large pine cone - washed and dried
• 225g (8oz) chocolate buttons covered with "hundreds and         thousands"
• 150g (6oz) miniature Easter eggs - chocolate or candy
• 1 pretty dish
• Model clay

• Make sure the cone is clean and dry.

• Roll a large piece of model clay in the palm of your hands.

• Once it is warm and soft, press it firmly into the middle of the  dish.

• Now gently press the cone down onto the clay.

• Make sure that it stand firmly, upright.

• Starting from the bottom of the cone, place chocolate buttons in each alternate scale.

• Work your way to the top. You will find that the buttons fit        perfectly inside the scales.

• Stand a decorative chicken into the clay and fill the rest of the dish with Easter eggs and candy.

• Store in a very cool place until needed.