Pinecone Bird Feeder
You can feel fall in the air. Pretty soon it'll be chilly outside and you'll be glad to have your cozy warm home.
Wild birds have a hard time finding enough to eat in the wintertime, so you may want to be a bird's best friend by setting food out for them.
Here's a craft project to make a bird feeder from a large pine cone. And you don't have to wait until it's really cold to make this feeder—birds are hungry all year long!
Ingredients:
1 large pinecone
1/2 cup peanut butter
18-inch piece of twine or kitchen string
Newspaper
1/2 cup birdseed
Directions:
Wrap one end of twine around the base of the pinecone. Tie securely, leaving about 10 inches free to tie to a tree branch. Spread peanut butter onto the pinecone.
Place the birdseed on a piece of newspaper and roll the coated pinecone in the birdseed. Hang the feeder from a tree branch or outside hook for birds to snack on.
Published 09/30/09
