|
Lucy
Gardens.com - Gardening for Kid
Bird Feeder
How to Make a Pine Cone Bird Feeder
|
|
~ an Easy to Make Bird Feeder encourages little kid gardeners to be responsible
for attracting birds into their backyard wildlife habitat
|
What's
NEW
|
| Make
your own Bird Feeder using Pinecones |
|
|
| Make
a Suet Pinecone Feeder |
|
PopCorn
Bird Feeder |
|
What you need to
make bird feeder
~ pine cones - large ones work best
~ a piece of strong string or wire
~ 250 gr of suet ( a cooking fat)
~ 1 jar of peanut butter ( unsalted)
~ a little bit of plain flour
~ a variety of bird seeds
~ saucepan / cooking pot
How to Make Bird Feeder Pine Cone
~ take a pinecone and make sure it is nice and dry
~ if it is a freh one let it dry for a week 9 or in a warm place for a
shorter period)
~ take the dry pine cone and tie some string around the base of the cone
~ take the suet
(cooking fat made from animal fat) and melt it in the pan over a slow
heat
~ stir in the peanut butter
~ mix it all together until melted
~ add s little flour to the bird food mixture to help it thicken
~ ones it is thick enough add a few bird seeds into the bird food mixture
and keep stirring
~ it needs to be a farily stiff mixture
~ let it cool down a bit but keep stirring
~ Just before the mixture sets take the string of your pine cone and drop
the cone into the pan so that it is covered completly
~ press the bird food mixture into the cavities of the pine cone
~ once full take the string and hang the pine cone bird feeder up to dry
and cool
|
~
a popcorn pinecone feeder is a great garden craft to make with younger kid
gardeners
~ children and even toddlers enjoy making this bird feeder
How
to Make a Bird feeder with Popcorn |
~
No Kid Garden would be complete without some home made bird feeders encouraging
the local garden birds to feed and giving children the opportunity for some
close -up backyard science lessons
~ You can make lots of these pine cone bird feeders in one go and storing
them ready for feeding your garden birds in your backyeard wildlife habitat
with delcious homemade bird food and help them survive the winter season |
|
Gardening for Kids |
~
Creating a Wildlife Refuge for your local garden animals, insects,
butterflies, birds and bees takes only a few easy steps and is very rewarding
for any little kid gardener
~ We hope you enjoyed our "How to Make a Pine Cone Bird Feeder "
section, subscribe to Lila and Maya's newsletter to be kept up to date with
any new additions to gardening for kids |
