Bird Treats for the Winter
Just before Christmas break, we spent some time creating bird feeders for our local birds. Let me warn you...it did create a MESS on the floor. However, my students were wonderful helpers with the clean up and graciously borrowed brooms from other classes to sweep it all up in no time!
Here's what we started with:
We made two bird feeders. The first one was the typical pinecone feeder with a twist. Because so many students have peanut allergies, I couldn't use peanut butter as the spread. Instead we used shortening - generic for crisco. The crisco was much cheaper than peanut butter too!!! The students started with yarn and tied it around the pinecone, spread crisco on the cone and then dipped it in the birdseed.
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Here's what we started with:
We made two bird feeders. The first one was the typical pinecone feeder with a twist. Because so many students have peanut allergies, I couldn't use peanut butter as the spread. Instead we used shortening - generic for crisco. The crisco was much cheaper than peanut butter too!!! The students started with yarn and tied it around the pinecone, spread crisco on the cone and then dipped it in the birdseed.
The next one was really fun...old fashioned popcorn strings with a twist!
Instead of using thread and a needle, we used wire from the craft store. The kids could easily string the popcorn on the wire and no risk of getting cut!
Parents sent in popped corn for us to use. They sent in a ton of popcorn!
After we finished, we took them outside and hung them on our local trees for winter break.
Hope you can use this too!
