Once the pipe cleaners were pretty much full of threaded Cheerios we curled the ends over to make our DIY bird feeder into a heart shape. That way even your littlest bird lover can join in and just concentrate on threading the cereal. If I am doing this craft with young toddlers and they are finding it tricky to hold the pipe cleaner with one hand and thread with the other then I stick the pipe cleaner onto the table with a bit of play dough or plasticine so that it’s held in a vertical position. The pipe cleaners are fairly rigid so it’s quite easy for even very little hands to thread. It’s such a lovely craft to sit and relax with and all that threading is great for building fine motor skills too. We folded our pipe cleaner in half to find the middle and then sat and chatted while we threaded the cereal on. This homemade bird feeder craft is so easy and virtually prep free! To get things ready for the children I just poured some Cheerios into a bowl and set that onto a tray with the long pipe cleaners. Cheerios (Lots of stores offer their own bargain brand.) (Make sure it is a low sugar variety.) (This post contains UK and US affiliate links.) With Valentine’s Day around the corner couldn’t resist a bit of birdy love with these Heart Shaped Bird Feeders! Supplies For Your DIY Bird Feeder We’ve discovered that the wild birds have very definite favourites when it comes to their dinner! Peanuts are loved by the blue tits, meal worms by the robins, bread by the wood pigeons, seeds by the sparrows, and meat and cat food scraps are adored so much by the blackbirds that they’ll even be bold enough to steal them out of the cat food bowl!įeeding the wild birds and making DIY bird feeders with the children is such a lovely hands on way to get the kiddies interacting with and caring about nature and in the colder months especially, your little feathered friends will sure be grateful for your help.
We could just sit and watch them for hours!įeeding the birds is something we do everyday now and it’s been really interesting for the whole family to watch all the different bird species, learn their names and a little about their behaviour and eating habits. We’ve recently moved to the countryside from the city and one of the things we just love about country life is the abundance and variety of wild birds we get on our bird feeders.
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