| Edible Birdhouse |
From "DIY Kids"
episode DIK-110 |
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One of the best ways to attract wild birds to your yard is to make sure they have plenty to eat. Diana Murphy, editor of Country Living Gardener magazine, shows Kent Lindsey, host of DIY Kids, and the DIY Kids how to make a tasty birdfeeder that's as much fun to look at as it is to make. Materials:
Large, sturdy paper plate
Hole punch
Half-pint milk or juice carton
White glue
1 cup peanut butter
1/2 cup flour
2 tablespoons cornmeal
Spoon
Mixing bowl
Six or seven graham crackers
Scissors
Ice cream cone
Birdseed, dry cereal, raisins, nuts
Twine
- Punch three holes into the rim of the paper plate so they form a triangle (figure A).
- Wash and dry the milk or juice carton. Glue the clean, dry carton to the paper plate just off center so there's room to add an ice-cream-cone tree later (figure B). Let the glue dry.
- To make the mortar, add the peanut butter, the flour and the cornmeal to a bowl, and mix until well blended. The mortar will be very sticky and stiff. If you like, ask an adult to help.
- Add a dab of mortar to the back of four of the graham-cracker squares. Use the mortar to attach the crackers to the four sides of the milk carton.
- To build a peaked roof, use two more graham cracker squares. The roof will look like an upside-down V. Stick the roof to the house with more peanut-butter mix (figure C).
- Frost the roof and the sides of the house with more mortar, then decorate it with birdseed, dry cereal, raisins or nuts. You can arrange the cereal in a pattern that looks like roof shingles. Or give the house the look of windows and doors with raisins, cereal or large seeds. Sprinkle the whole house with birdseed (figure D).
- To make a tree, frost the ice-cream cone with mortar, and roll it in birdseed. Put a big glob of mortar onto the plate where you want the tree to go. Turn the ice-cream cone upside down, and press it into the mortar (figure E).
- Tie a piece of twine to each of the holes you punched into the rim of the plate. Tie the three pieces together at the top, and ask an adult help you tie your edible birdhouse outside in a safe place so the wild birds can munch away.
RESOURCES :
The Backyard Birdhouse Book
Model: 1580171044
Author: Rene Laubach and Christyna M. Laubach
1999
Storey Books / Storey Communications Inc.
Website: www.storey.com
Complete Birdhouse Book
Model: 0316188867
Author: Donald Stokes and Williams Stokes
(1998)
To order this title from Amazon.com, click here
Time Warner, Inc
New York , NY 10020
Phone: 212-522-8700
Website: www.twbookmark.com
Birdhouse Builder's Manual
Model: 1565231007
Author: Charles Grodski
(December, 1999)
Fox Chapel Publishing
Make Your Own Birdhouses & Feeders (Quick Starts for Kids! Books)
Model: 1885593554
Author: Robyn Haus
(2001)
To order this title from Amazon.com, click here.
Williamson Publishing Company
Charlotte, VT 05445
Email: info@williamsonbooks.com
Easy To Build Birdhouses (Storey Country Wisdom)
Model: 1580172334
Author: Mary Twitchell
(1999)
To order this title from Amazon.com, click here.
Storey Books / Storey Communications Inc.
Website: www.storey.com
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