Bird Buffet

This fun and easy craft is for the birds!

Materials

• Heavy string, yarn, or a shoelace
• Pine cone
• Pencil or straw
• Round oat cereal or pretzels
• Peanut butter
• Birdseed
• Stale bread
• Cookie cutter
• Popsicle stick

Istructions

• Tie heavy string, yarn, or a shoelace around the top of a pine cone, then knot it, leaving enough string to hang the pine cone. Have your child use a popsicle stick to thoroughly cover the pine cone with peanut butter, then roll it in birdseed.
• Have your child cut a shape from slightly stale bread with a cookie cutter. Spread peanut butter on the bread shape, then sprinkle on birdseed. Poke a hole close to the edge of the shape with a pencil or straw. Let the bread dry until it’s hard, then loop string or yarn through the hole and tie it.
• Have your child string round oat cereal or pretzels onto heavy string, yarn, or a shoelace. When he’s done, tie the ends together.
• Hang the feeder outside near a window where your child can watch the birds eat.