Pine Cone Bird Feeder

Emily and I had a craft afternoon earlier in the week when I decided since Emily loves watching the birds so much, we should make a bird feeder.  Being the silly person that I am, I refused to make a post about it until I could actually catch a bird using it on camera. :)

Emily calls every bird she sees her birdie, and is always saying, "I wish I was a bird!"  So I decided to make a bird feeder out of things we already had around here, besides the bird seed that I made a special Target trip for (yay for it being on clearance!).  I told Emily we were going to take Bella for a walk and go on a pine cone "hunt", then I gathered the rest of the stuff.  I recommend news paper (for containing the mess), thread or string (to hang the pine cones), peanut butter, bird seed, a couple of spoons or spatulas, and bowls for the PB and bird seed.

All you have to do is lay the newspaper out, pick out some pine cones, put some PB in a bowl (so you're not getting gross pine cone stuff in your PB if you have to re-dip your spoon) and put some bird seed in a bowl big enough to roll your pine cones in.

Tie up your pine cone on a string, then take a big spoonful of PB and spread it all over your cone.  Put the sticky pine cone in your bird seed bowl and either roll it around or use your hands to scoop and pat as much bird seed as you can get to stick to the PB.  Hang it up outside somewhere and wait for the birds to find it.

We saw some eating off of ours the day after we put it up, but they have some kind of ultra-radar so getting a picture was the difficult part! :)