Make Pine Cone Hedgehogs

This is a great little craft to do with children of any age. I made it up when I went to visit my sister and her family and my two year old niece picked up a load of pinecones in the garden. I looked at the shape of a pinecone on its side and to me it looked just like a little hedgehog!

You will need:
• Foam or felt, cut into small triangles
• Miniature pompoms
• PVA glue or glue stick
• Glitter
• Googly eyes

So here’s how you make them:
1. Collect as many pinecones as you would like hedgehogs (I recommend about 5, to make a cute little family)
2. Set them out on a table on top of some newspaper, and pick out eyes and a nose for each of your hedgehogs
3. Facing the hedgehogs with the wide end towards you, use the glue to stick on the pompom nose, and the googly eyes
4. Pick two felt or foam triangle ears for each of your hedgehogs, and apply a little glue to one edge of the triangle (an adult may need to help you) and stick them into the first available gap back from the end of the pinecone.
5. Now use the glue to cover the spikey pinecone prickles on the hedgehog’s back.
6. Finally sprinkle glitter over the backs of each of your hedgehogs, and leave them for half an hour or so for the glue to dry properly.

Et Voila! An easy-to-make cutesy little family of hedgehogs for you to display (they go great in Christmas trees) or play with (but beware of the small parts) until your heart is content!

Alley-Cat
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Don’t be afraid of spending time alone, it is a healthy thing to do. Turn off your phone, shut down your laptop and just spend some time with yourself. Get to know yourself, because knowledge is power, and the more you know about you, the more you’ll understand yourself. And if you find things you don’t like, make an effort to change them- for you’re not a completed sculpture yet- still clay in the potter’s hands. But as he moulds you, he works out the deformities, the blemishes, and the imperfections, as long as you are empowered to affect a change within yourself for the better. Self-discovery is the key to self-improvement.

©Alice Daley 2014