Homemade Bird Feeder
Our Titillating Tuesday Activity is making Homemade Bird Feeders with your kids. This project is defiently going on our list of fun activities for toddlers. We could have had the twins involved in this project but we ended up making the homemade bird feeders during their nap time.
Winter is approaching here in Australia and food sources for our local birds are starting to diminish, so we thought it would be a fun, learning project to make a homemade bird feeder for our garden. After making them Chook declared that they were "Happy Cakes for the birds". And so our homemade bird feeders became...
Bird Seed Happy Cakes
Happy Cakes is Chook's label for birthday cakes :)
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| The hot water is in the thermo cup with a lid. |
On your marks...
½ cup flour
2 tsp gelatine
½ cup hot water
2 – 3 cups of wild birdseed
Length of twine
Foam cups
Go...
Mix the first three ingredients together into a paste.
Add the birdseed and mix well.
Double your twine and knot the ends together.
Make a hole in the centre bottom of the cup. Thread your twine through the hole. You should have a loop emerging from the base (this will be the hanger of your homemade bird feeder).
Spoon a layer of birdseed mixture to the mold, ensuring the twine emerges through the seed, still in the centre. Press down firmly around the twine.
Spoon further amounts of the mixture into the cup, covering the remaining twine. Press the mixture firmly down into the cup.
Place cup in a dry place and allow to dry out. We left our homemade bird feeders for two days (that was long enough for an impatient 32 month old!)
We then peeled away the foam cup and hung the Happy Cakes off some branches in the garden.
Chook and I have been inspecting our homemade bird feeders every day, looking for signs that the birds are enjoying our project and from the nibbles it looks like they might be!
Here's another recipe and lovely way of gifting these: Click over to Plain Vanilla Mum and check out the oh so cute cookie cutter bird feeders she made for Mother's Day!
Here's another recipe and lovely way of gifting these: Click over to Plain Vanilla Mum and check out the oh so cute cookie cutter bird feeders she made for Mother's Day!
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He seems really engaged:) Hope we get a chance to make these.
ReplyDeleteThanks for stopping by :) I try and involve him in activities when the mood is right (and the stars are alligned and the tide is high...LOL). You know what toddlers are like!
ReplyDeleteIt looks like he really enjoyed putting this together.
ReplyDeleteIt really is a great recipe to do with kids! He did the majority of the work, except pouring the hot water and pressing the seed firmly into the cup, which needed a bit of mummy help.
DeleteWe are planning on making bird feeder in the near future! These are super cute! Looks like he had so much fun!
ReplyDeleteHi, welcome! He spent the two days, while they were drying, picking them up and carrying them around!
DeleteYour so sweet :) Thanks for the mention.
ReplyDeleteThese look great! Will definitely have to try the out. Thanks for linking up to the Weekly Kid's Co-op.
ReplyDeleteThat is great - we shall make one of those come Autumn!
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing on Family Frolics.