How To Use Pine Cones For A Unique Fall Mason Jar

Create charming fall decor by decorating mason jars with pine cones! This easy DIY project adds a rustic autumn touch to your home. Perfect for cozy, seasonal decorating.

Updated Aug 2024

Mason jars must be one of the most fun things to decorate and upcycle. I decided to raise the Mason jar crafting challenge by making my own unique fall Mason jar.

Every day, I walk our lovely old dog, Toby, around the park at the bottom of my street. While stopping for my morning coffee and dog treat at the kiosk in the park, I got the pinecone idea.

The Kiosk is surrounded by many pine trees with the cutest small pinecones, I can’t help picking a few up and taking them home with me.

Unique Fall Mason Jar Decoration with Pine Cone Crafts

I now have quite a pile of cute pine cones, I need to do something with. One of my pine cone crafts is these fall Mason jars.

Did you know we call Mason Jars, Kilner jars in the UK? They are made by the Kilner company and not Ball. The Mason jar is named after John Landis Mason, who patented it in 1858. These moulded glass jars used in home canning to preserve food.

You can decorate any glass jar, Mason, Kilner, or just an old pickle jar. Making a few of these decorated jars of different sizes looks lovely.

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Materials Used

• Mason Jars – Or Kilner jars or any old glass jars.
• Small pinecones – one for each jar.
• Strong quick drying glue.
• Cream spray paint
• Gold spray paint
• Mod Podge
• Vintage pinecone images – Download for free from here.

DIY Fall Mason jar with Pinecones

Step 1: The first thing to do is to spray paint the glass jars with the cream spray paint. It’s best to do this outside if you can.

Step 2: Paint the jar lid and pine cones. I used gold chrome spray paint for this. Once the gold paint has dried, glue the gold pine cone to the centre of the jar lid.

Step 3: Gather the vintage pine cone images and print them out. Preferably with a laser printer. If you only have an inkjet printer then, you will have to spray the images with a sealant before decoupage otherwise the ink may smudge. Cut out the individual pinecone images.

More botanical pinecone drawings and illustrations are available to print for free on Pictureboxblue.

Step 4: Stick the cutout pine cones to the jars using Mod Podge or another suitable decoupage glue. I stuck about four small pine cone images to each jar. Apply a coat of decoupage glue on top of the images to seal them.

Step 5: All that is left to do now is put the pine cone lids on. These pinecone Mason jars make a fun fall/autumn decoration.

Even though we often associate pinecones with fall crafts, they are available all year round. I’ve crafted with pinecones in other seasons. For Valentine’s, I made a beautiful pinecone flower heart decoration.

For Christmas, I have made some cute pine cone tile decorations and the sweetest mini pine cone Christmas tree.

Don’t forget to check out my other Mason jar crafts, map mason jar bank, and cool unique table lamp.