Here is a great project for a hot summer day. Build a birdhouse! This project has been adapted from the Super Duper Art & Craft Activity Book by Lynn Gordon.
What you need:
- a milk carton, oatmeal container, or any other container that you can re-purpose before you recycle it (note: containers that have a waxy finish, like milk cartons, will hold up better in the weather). Make sure to wash out your container before building a birdhouse with it.
- scissors
- ribbon or heavy-duty string (thin hemp rope works great)
- glue or rubber cement
- brown paper bag
- twigs, leaves, markers and anything else you want to use to decorate
- Cut a bird-size hole in your container about an inch or so from the bottom (see picture above)
- With scissors or a hole puncher, punch a hole in the top of your container and string your ribbon/rope through the hole. Tie a knot in the string so that you have a loop to hang your bird feeder from
- Glue pieces of the brown paper bag to the container to cover the labels. Decorate with twigs, leaves, markers, glitter, or anything your imagination can think up
- fill the bottom inch of the container with birdseed
- hang it up and watch for birds!
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