Have you always wanted to use every bowl and utensil you own, all at once, and cover your kitchen in corn syrup and birdseed? Yes! Try this -- make bird feeders with three toddlers.
Tilly's friend, Selah, was a pro at mixing and cutting out the animals, while little Radley enjoyed banging the measuring spoons together, and Tilly tried her hardest to sneak mouthfuls of the birdseed from the spoon, while exclaiming "Yummy!"
We got to try out our new IKEA woodland creatures cutters -- lovely hedgehogs, bears and moose, and, of course, a Dala horse -- which took on a more abstract quality when created in birdseed. Sadly, the recipe I'd found (from here) wasn't very good, or we measured wrongly, as our menagerie of feeders never hardened. Twenty-four hours later, slick and shiny with grease, their heads fell off as I slipped a spatula beneath them.
The food was still enjoyed by the birds, but as sticky blobs and crumbling hunks, scattered on the grass, rather than prettily hung in the trees.
With three-quarters of a bag of birdseed still left, we'd love to hear about your (successful) homemade bird feeders, if you've got any, and give them a try...
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So cute! I watched a Martha Stewart show once where they made these, and they mentioned that they were for winter seasons only as they were meant to be frozen in order to hold their shape. Perhaps the recipe assumed they would be hung in a cold temp? Who knows...good thing the birds don't discriminate. :)
All I've ever done is the peanut-butter-and-pinecone version, but another fun bird craft is putting out strings for the birds to nest with, lightly tied in bundles, or stuck inside short pieces of straw. It's a good use for tiny bits of things that would otherwise go into stuffing or trash.
All I've ever done is the peanut-butter-and-pinecone version, but another fun bird craft is putting out strings for the birds to nest with, lightly tied in bundles, or stuck inside short pieces of straw. It's a good use for tiny bits of things that would otherwise go into stuffing or trash.
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