Making Bird Feeders With Pine Cones
Making bird feeders with pine cones is a fun, easy, and inexpensive project for children and grown-ups alike. The bird feeders encourage local birds to come into your yard and also serve as decorative pieces in your garden. All of the materials can be bought at the local grocery store or gathered outside.
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Things You'll Need
- Pine cone
- String or yarn
- Scissors
- 1/4 cup peanut butter
- Birdseed
- Pie plate
- Newspaper
Instructions
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Making a pine-cone bird feeder
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Use newspaper to spread over the area where you will be working. Decide where you want to make your bird feeders. Place newspaper over the area to make for easy clean-up later.
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Cut the string with the scissors and tie it to the top of the pine cone. Cut your yarn or piece of string using the scissors. You can cut the string to whatever length you want the bird feeder to hang below a tree branch. Tie the string firmly to the top of the pine cone.
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Spread the peanut butter over the pine cone. Using the butter knife, spread the peanut butter over the pine cone. The more peanut butter you use, the more seeds will stick to the pine cone.
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Roll the pine cone in the birdseed. Place the birdseed into the pie plate. Roll the pine cone in the pie plate so that the birdseed sticks to the peanut butter. If you run out of seeds, you may place more into the pie plate and continue.
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Watch from your window as birds gather to eat the seeds on the bird feeder. Hang the bird feeder outside on a tree branch. Be sure to tie the string tight so that it does not fall when birds land on it.
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Tips & Warnings
When you are rolling the pine cone in the birdseed, keep the string outside of the pie plate so that it does not get peanut butter on it.
Use caution when cutting the string with scissors.
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- Photo Credit Pinecone 01 image by C.Y.Ronnie.W from Fotolia.com newspaper image by Christopher Hall from Fotolia.com scissors image by Pefkos from Fotolia.com peanut butter on a cracker image by robert mobley from Fotolia.com Hands with seeds image by Dmitriy Lesnyak from Fotolia.com Robin sat on Tree Branch. image by dismagwi from Fotolia.com
