Tweet Tweet, a Bird's Treat!

Recently Chloe and Yates have enjoyed watching and listening to birds in our backyard.  This week we decided to make our own bird feeders so the cardinals would come by and visit every afternoon.

// Cookie- Cutter Bird Feeders //

• 2/3 cup of boiling water
• 2 packets of gelatine
• 2 cups of bird seed 
• wax paper
• various cookie cutters
• straws cut into 2 inch pieces (for the whole to tie the string at the top of the bird feeder)
• string

Pour the water into a very large mixing bowl.  Add two packages of gelatine and stir until it’s fully dissolved.  Add the bird seed and mix well until everything is evenly coated.

Place cookie cutters onto wax paper and scoop seed mixture in until heaping full.  Gently poke straw pieces at the top of the seed shapes all the way through.  Pop the tray into the fridge for a couple of hours to allow the feeders to set.  Later on, remove the tray from the fridge and let sit on the counter to dry out.

Once the feeders are hard and dry, carefully remove the seed shapes from the cookie cutters.  Remove the straw and tie a string through the hole around the top of the bird feeder.  Hang from a tree, or low bush and enjoy watching birds come by to for a treat!