Backyard Birdfeeder

I have the joy of watching a 3 & 5 year old and the other day we saw this birdfeeder on Pinterest and they thought that was kinda cool.  And since they had just finished drinking juice from one of those gallon-sized containers we thought it would be a great idea.

Here is what we needed:
1 large plastic juice container.
medium sized rickrack
low temp glue gun & extra glue sticks
12"-14" dowel (about 1/4" thick)
exacto knife or carpet knife
birdseed

First we washed the plastic jug and removed the label.

Draw a 3" circle on the side of the jug about 2" from the bottom.  We carefully cut this out using our knife.  Now make a small-sized hole about 1/2" under the large circle.

Repeat this process for the other side of the jug.

Now you can insert the dowel through these small holes making sure they are even and not too long.  This is where the little birds can perch themselves while getting a snack.

Our jug had indentations in the plastic going around the jug so we thought that would be a good place to glue the rickrack since it was already a nice, straight line.  The girls chose the colors to alternate and I think they did a good job.  Using the glue gun we glued the strips of rickrack onto the jug.  We then used black rickrack to go around each 3" circle so the opening would be noticeable.

The top of the jug looked too bare so we added a few leather flowers that I had removed from sandals that had gotten ruined, and we glued those on also.

Now you are ready to add the birdseed and go hang it up.

The girls can't wait to take this home and hang it off their patio

Recycle & Repurpose - that's my motto.  But then I just can't thrown some things away.