Easy Bird Feeders
Use a Bagel or a Toilet Paper Tube to Make a Fun Bird Feeder
This easy kids craft is perfect for scout or 4-H groups. Several simple ideas for making bird feeders to attract our feathered friends to the yard.
Spring is the perfect time to make some bird feeders. Hungry birds everywhere are busy building nests and migrating back to their homes. Why not get together with some friends and make several of these for the neighborhood where you live?
After your bird feeders are up, make a covered notebook and keep track of all the birds you see. Try and identify them and learn their songs.
Easy Bird Feeder
What you will need:
Cardboard toilet paper roll or paper towel roll
Wax paper or newspaper to work on - cover your work space well
Honey
Plastic knife
2 foot piece of brightly colored yarn
Paper plate
Birdseed (use seeds that are small, the larger ones like sunflower seeds fall off).
Here’s what you do:
Put the yarn through the hole in the toilet paper roll and lay out on a piece of wax paper or newspaper. Spread the honey all around the outside of the roll. Put birdseed on a paper plate. Roll toilet paper roll in birdseed. Tie a knot in the yarn, and hang on a tree!
Bagel Bird Feeder
What you need:
Bagel
Plastic knife
Yarn or string
Peanut butter or lard
Birdseed
Split the bagel in half. On the flat side spread peanut butter or lard. Sprinkle the birdseed on a paper plate. Press the peanut buttered side of the bagel into the birdseed. Tie a string onto the bagel and hang in a tree.
Sit back and watch our feathered friends flock to your yard.
More ideas for bird feeders
Soda bottles - invert a two litter bottle with the lid on tight. Cut a hole in the side large enough for a small bird to crawl into. Now on either side poke two small holes just opposite of each other. Put a stick through these holes for a perch. Put bird seed in the bottom. Punch holes at the top and hang from a tree.
Milk Cartons - make like the soda bottle on. Try painting the milk carton different colors to see which color attracts more birds.
Drill holes in a tree and place sticks or dowels for the birds to sit on. Spread peanut butter or suet in the tree.
Color some birds, or make a Bird Nesting Bag,
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