Recycled bird feeder
Here’s a great project that the kids can do over the holidays. We used empty squash and fruit juice bottles to make these bird feeders.
You will need:
Empty plastic bottles
Dremel Multitool and cutting
wheel
Wooden skewers
Rust-Oleum Paint Pens
Hooks for hanging in the trees
Here’s how:
1. Wash and dry the bottles thoroughly.
2. Use your Dremel Multitool to cut out openings
in the sides, back and front. In the squash
bottles we followed the shapes in the sides of
the bottle and left the back and front closed.
3. Leave a small
flap of plastic at
the bottom of the
openings for the
birds to rest on.
4. Make a hole in the
front and back
for the wooden
skewer. You can
put fresh fruit on
these for the birds.
5. Paint attractive
designs onto the
bottles with Rust-Oleum Paint Pens
and leave to dry.
6. Insert a hook into
the cap and hang
from a tree in the garden.
Ooops! Don’t
forget to add bird seed so that plenty of
feathered friends will come to visit.
Safety First
If you haven’t used the Dremel Multitool
before, please let mom or dad help you
with this project.