Making a Bird Feeder

MAKING A BIRD FEEDER Materials List:

• One orange juice or milk carton  ½ gallon size—washed and cleaned out
• Sand Paper –one piece ( to ‘rough up’ the exterior of the carton before painting—so it will hold the paint)
• One pipe cleaner
• One straight wooden stick 8 to 10 inches long (from outside fallen tree limb or a wooden dowel)
• Waterproof acrylic paint –one small jar, preferable green or blue (craft stores)
• One “sponge” brush p to paint the carton
• Lots of materials from outside –fallen leaves (press them between sheets of newspaper), grasses,  fall weeds, acorns, evergreen branch pieces (small) ferns ( pressed)
• Elmers school glue
•  Some bird seed to put in your feeder
•  Have Mom or Dad cut the holes in the Milk carton –as per the demonstration before starting