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 :) )