Introduction: Pine Cones in a Bottle!
How to make your own cool and almost 100% free "pine cones in a bottle"-set.
It 's kinda useless but a cool thing to have...
Step 1: Stuff You Need...
Stuff you need:
- 3 pine cones
- empty bottle
Step 2: Shrink Them!
Let the pine cones shrink!
you can let a pinecone shrink by putting it under water...
Step 3: Wait...
Wait for the pine cones to shrink
mainwhile you can start building the display...
Step 4: Building the Display
building the display
Stuff you need:
- drill
- some wood
- copper wires
- tape (when you dont have a perfect sized drill)
Step 5: Meassure
Meassure where to drill
put the bottle on the piece of wood and mark the spots where to drill.
SPOT1 => under the lid
SPOT2 => 3cm from the end (pic)
Step 6: DRILL!
DRILL the holes (about 0.5 cm deep and the size of your copper wire(diameter))
Step 7: BEND!
you will need 2 wires with a lenght of +/- 10 cm
Bend like you see on the pics
Step 8: Put Them in Place!
put them in place and trim them so the bottle is horizontal...
(use tape to make the wire fit perfectly)
Step 9: PUT THEM INSIDE!
put the pinecores in the bottle and wait till they dry and become bigger...
Step 10: All Done.
show your friends!
(and comment :) )
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