How to Make Peanut Butter Pine Cones for the Birds

These fun, easy-to-make ornaments let you share the holiday spirit with fine-feathered friends.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Birdseeds
• Pine Cones
• Creamy Peanut Butter
• Pie Tins
• Spoons
• Old Newspapers
• Red And Green Pipe Cleaners
• Spoons

1. Cover your working area with old newspapers and have your supplies at the ready.

2. Fill a pie tin or shallow baking dish with birdseed.

3. Twist the midsection of a red or green pipe cleaner around the stem of each pine cone and pull the two ends out straight.

4. Use a spoon to carefully cover the pine cones with creamy peanut butter (about 2 tablespoons per cone).

5. Roll the pine cones around in the birdseed until they're completely covered.

6. Set the finished products on newspaper until you have coated each pine cone.

7. Hang the ornaments by twisting the pipe cleaner ends around branches of a tree.

8. Sit back and watch the birds flock to your yard.

Tips & Warnings

• This is a great holiday craft project for kids.
• An 18 oz. jar of peanut butter is enough for 15 pine cone ornaments.
• Pine cones can be purchased in craft stores if there are no pine trees in your area.
• Warming the pine cones in an oven on low beforehand will get them to open up and look fuller.
• Make sure to hang the pine cone ornaments where the squirrels can't get to them.

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