Make kid friendly bird feeders this summer with a few simple ingredients. Making memories with the children doesn’t need to be complicated or expensive. These kid-friendly bird feeders only need a few cheap ingredients and toilet roll tubes. 100% simple and easy – or so I thought. Here is our story…
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What You Need to Make Kid Friendly Bird Feeders
Mummy (10 years parenting)
Why am I rummaging through the cardboard and paper recycling bin, you may ask? Last thing at night, with a slightly mad, crazed look in my eyes?
Why because it’s the middle of the school holidays and my youngest child wants to make home-made bird feeders! Tomorrow! And I have stupidly agreed.
And after diligently collecting a handful of toilet roll cardboard tubes over the past few weeks – I thought I was on to a win. Who was I trying to convince?
Because my darling child suddenly announces at bedtime that of course 2 loo roll tubes for each child weren’t going to be enough. He would like everyone (adults included) to make one, or two or twenty five!!!
And I was oh so helpfully reminded (thank you primary school education) that 4 times 25 is 100.
Hence my current position of finding any possible cardboard tube, roll, box that would potentially work as a kid-friendly, bird-friendly, home-made bird feeder.
And I had to buy lard. Because this is what they used at school and apparently butter just wouldn’t do. I have never bought lard in my life. Didn’t even know that it was actually still a thing you could buy.
And I made the mistake of taking the children with me to get bird seed. And now we have enough bird food to last us until – well I have no idea actually.
Are birds as ravenous as children on school holidays? Because if so, its probably won’t even last us a week!
It’s exhausting enough just keeping the children fed – now I have to feed the birds too?!?
I have no idea if this is actually going to work.
No-idea if the hoard of birds are suddenly going to descend on our garden the minute our random shaped, seed-covered bird feeders appear haphazardly on – wait on what?
Where am I supposed to be hanging these bird feeders? Please don’t say the washing line? Just no. Nope. Negative.
I honestly thought this would be an easy, simple summer school holiday activity. And cheap. And cheerful.
But right now I have managed to unearth about 10 cardboard tubes, have more bird food in the house than actual human food, nowhere to hang out our clothes for the next few weeks – and lard. A giant lump of what-was-I-thinking lard.
These birds better show up tomorrow.
How to Make Kid Friendly Bird Feeders in Detail
Here is how to make the bird feeders in this story in more detail.
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