Sunday afternoon Aiden and I made some bird feeders out of milk and apple juice cartons. I would personally suggest the milk carton over apple juice carton, because the apple juice carton was almost impossible to cut through.
We made one for us and then one for our neighbors across the street. I spray painted their's blue and then wanted Aiden to paint some stuff on it with other paint colors, but he wanted to take it over. So that's what we did.
It really wasn't hard to do.
- take a milk carton - clean it out (leave the cap on to help keep water out when it rains)
- cut out 2 holes about fist size - I used an exacto knife
- punch a couple of holes in the bottom (helps water build up in the bottom) - I used a small screw driver
- punch two holes in the top of the carton, place wire or twine in holes to hang the bird feeder - I used covered wire.
- make holes for twigs under the fist size holes
- paint (if you want to)
- shove twigs in the holes - this was probably the hardest part, trying to get the hole small enough so the twigs would stick straight out, otherwise the twigs hang down
- Put seed in, hang it up! DONE
This is our finished bird feeder. I didn't have time to take a picture of the other one we made. Aiden was in a big hurry to get it to his friend. :) Too cute.
We've been watching to see if any birds have been interested. Finally, this morning Robert saw a couple of birds eating out of it. When we let the dogs outside, Lola goes and sits under it, waiting for the birds. (She thinks she's a bird dog, loves to chase birds, guess we can't have an inside bird for a while) The dogs don't stay outside too long, so hopefully she won't scare the birds off.
Also, I found this website of things to do with a milk carton - evidently they sit in land fills forever, so if you don't recycle them the never go away. Or you can make crafty garden things out of them! http://www.plantea.com/milk-jug.htm
