Recycled Plastic Bottle Bird Feeder
I especially love making this simple Recycled Plastic Bottle Bird Feeder with the kids because we can recycle a plastic bottle and enjoy the use immediately to study the birds it attracts!
Servings: 1 Bird Feeder
Cost: $2
Equipment
- Utility knife or scissors
- Funnel to fill the feeder
Ingredients
- 1 Plastic bottle washed and dry, label removed
- 2 Wooden spoons
- Wire to hang the feeder
- Bird seed
Instructions
- Choose a plastic bottle in a size you like, like a larger water bottle. Take the label off the plastic bottle and wash and dry it. Be sure to keep the lid.
- On the side of the bottle, close to the bottom, cut a horseshoe shaped semi-circle (not a complete hole) that is about 1.25 inches in size. Leave the plastic attached on the bottom of the hole so that it makes a flap that you pull out and down.
- Push the handle of a wooden spoon through this hole and straight across the bottle till it taps the opposite side of the bottle. Mark the spot where the handle touches the other side of the bottle. Cut a small circle or an “X” where you marked the bottle. Make this just large enough for the spoon handle to come through snuggly. Push the spoon handle through the small opening you just cut.
- Do the exact same thing for the second spoon about half way up the bottle starting from a different direction than the first spoon. Perhaps making a right angle from the first spoon.
- Position the spoons so that the bowl is up.
- Use a funnel (or wrap a piece of paper into a funnel) to fill the bottle up with bird seed. Some seed should spill out onto the bowl of the spoon. This is where the birds will eat.
- Tie heavy string or use wire on the top of the bottle to make a way to hang the easy to Make Recycled Plastic Bottle Bird Feeder.
- Go outside and hang the bottle from a tree or shepherd’s hook.