Make a birdhouse feeding station
Make our brilliant DIY birdhouse feeder and attract all sorts of birds to your garden! If you don't have a green space of your own to hang it, you could make it as a gift.
- Empty juice carton
- Pencil
- Ruler
- Scissors
- String
- Wooden skewer or stick
- Paint to decorate (acrylic works best)
- Bird seed
Step One
Make sure your juice carton is clean and dry, do not skip this step 馃槃
Use a ruler and draw a rectangle to create a window at the front of your birdhouse. We have measured out a rectangle that is 5cm wide and 8cm long. You can make your window in any shape that you like.
Step Two
Carefully cut out your window shape with scissors. You may need an adult to help you with this, as it鈥檚 a bit tricky!
Step Three
Now it鈥檚 time to decorate! You can paint your birdhouse feeder in any design you like. Be creative!
Step Four
Once you have a fabulous, decorated birdhouse, it鈥檚 time to make a ledge for birds to sit on. To make the ledge, carefully make a hole underneath the window you created using a pencil, this can be fiddly, so grab your adult again if you need to. Push a wooden skewer or stick through the hole and there you have it, a sweet perch for your bird friends to land on.
Step Five
Next, carefully pierce a hole at the top of your carton and attach some string.
Finally, fill your birdhouse feeder with bird seed and hang it outside. If you鈥檙e lucky some birds will come and visit.
Top Tip -聽If you want to make a roof for your birdhouse, you can add some dried-out twigs or lollypop sticks to the top of your carton 鈥 we think this looks top notch!
To give the birds an extra treat have a go at making our fruity bird feeder 馃崐
Did you make it?
Let us know if you made this in the comments below, how did you decorate your bird feeder?
You can also send us a photo of you and your bird feeder, we'd love to see your designs 馃挌
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