You're not supposed to collect the native variety. Not unless they've opened and released their seeds. Even then, I'm not sure it's legal within a national park.
As infant warmongers, they were the pretend hand grenades that complemented our trusty stick rifles.
Crafty parents/older siblings might spray-paint them silver to make Xmas decs. Plenty of peeps used 'em to kick-start their fireplaces or outdoor wood barbecues.
Especially talented folks transformed 'em into cute hedgehogs worthy of stop-motion animating.
One of sister EM's colleagues created edible pine cones out of Milo cereal artfully fixed around a cake core. She said he told her, "Never again - too much work."
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