Crafts
Bird Feeders
Egg Carton feeder
- Cardboard free range chickens’ egg cartons
- Wire hanger
- Glue gun
- Suet and/or peanut butter
- Bird seed
Cut the top off the egg carton. Run a generous line of glue on the underside center lengthwise between the little cups.
Set the carton in the hanger, sticking the bottom of the hanger on the line of glue. If the egg carton seems insecure, run another line of glue on top of the hanger wire that is now running along the bottom length of the egg carton. (Trust me, this is not as complicated as it sounds -- it’s just hard to describe.)
Now, what you have is a series of little cups sitting on a wire that has a hook at the top.
Here’s where the kids come in.
While you are resting from the above ordeal, have the kids make a sticky, messy mixture of bird seed, peanut butter and/or softened suet and put this into the cups. This is a summertime feeder. In the winter, you can make a similar feeder using metal muffin tins and two hangers.
Corn Cob feeder
- Corn cobs
- Wire hangers
- Wire cutters
- White glue
- Peanut butter and/or suet
- Bird seed
Cut the bottoms off the hangers with the wire cutters leaving a hood with a long arm on each side. Shove the corn cobs onto these arms. Take them off again, squeeze glue into the holes in the corn cobs and replace them onto the hangers. Let dry.
While you are resting from the above ordeal, have the kids make the sticky, messy mixture of bird seed, peanut butter and/or softened suet. Smear this stuff onto the corn cobs, pushing it into all the little crevices. Hang on trees and bushes.
