One of the links from my super bird links list was to a homemade bird house. I like the idea, but right now we needed to build a bird feeder, so I adopted it to our needs to make a milk carton bird feeder
Supplies: milk carton with lid, sharp knife, sharpies, bird seed, rope
1. Cut a hole in your milk carton. I probably cut a bit larger than is preferable, but I cut out the indent that’s in a milk carton.
2. Let your kids have fun coloring the milk carton. My kids of course thought this was the best part.
3. Sorry, no picture of this. I stabbed an x-shape on each side of the milk carton with the knife, and then I fed the rope through in two loops and tied those loops off.
4. Carefully pour in the bird seed. For ours it took about 3 cups to fill it to a satisfactory level.
And apparently the pictures of my finished hanging up in the yard bird feeder are missing somewhere, so imagine a wonderful bird feeder hanging up until such time as I take pictures with my old camera or find my camera charger.
So far we’ve eagerly looked to see if any birds have come and no such luck. I might have to break down and get a real bird feeder, or it could just be I need to have patience.
Looks like fun. Maybe scatter some seed right below the feeder to alert the birds?
I'm imagining the picture of the completed house hanging in the yard, and it looks lovely 🙂
We've been making and filling bird feeders too! Our birds (and squireels) are loving it! We have tons of Chickadees, Blue Jays, Tufted Titmice, Dark-eyed Juncos, and a lone male Cardinal…3 grey squirrels and 2 red squirrels. The kids are thinking up names! LOL
Jessy
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If only I had a place to hand a bird feeder! I love this idea and I can see the kids had so much fun building it.
That looks like an easy birdfeeder to make. Maybe I could even make it! 🙂
How cool! I am going back and forth between two possible crafts for the next week – your bird feeder or Valerie's pretend bird house. Considering that we actually went to a lot of trouble to convince birds not to poop on our garden table, I might go for pretend.
When we hung up a bird feeder, it took a while for the birds to find it. Then everything in our yard ended up covered in bird poop and I couldn't take it anymore. If I had a huge yard, I would hang one way out because I do like to see the birds and help them in this weather.
The squirrel ends up taking over our bird feeder so I don't put seed in it anymore.
I hope some birds find your bird feeder soon! The snow is so high right now, the turkeys can just stand on it and eat right out of the feeder, and that is a problem!
I am just stopping by for the first time via “Our Side of the Mountain” blog. Very cool! This makes me want to post a science activity just so I can link up. I loved browsing the links- I did not get to them all, but plan to come back for more reading. I love your bird feeder- my boys would have a blast making one.