Recycled Backyard Bird Feeder

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Total Time Needed:

1 Hour

Spoon-feed your winged neighbors with this homemade birdseed dispenser.

Materials

• Clean 1-liter soda bottle
• Craft knife
• 2 wooden spoons

• small eye screw
• Length of twine for hanging

Instructions

1.  Start by drawing a 1/2-inch asterisk on the side of a clean 1-liter soda bottle, about 4 inches from the bottom. Rotate the bottle 90 degrees and draw another asterisk
   2 inches from the bottom. Draw a 1-inch-wide circle opposite each asterisk, as shown.
2. Use a craft knife to slit the asterisk lines and cut out the circles (a parent's job). Insert a wooden spoon handle first through each hole and then through the opposite asterisk, as shown.
3. Remove the bottle cap and twist a small eye screw into the top of it for hanging.
4. Finally, fill your feeder with birdseed, recap it, and use a length of twine to hang it from a tree.