Easy Bird Feeders for Kids

With industrialization and improvement in lifestyle, majority of the people live in luxurious flats. No matter these homes provide every facility to make life easier, lush green trees and birds become a rare sight! Though many of us do not like the constant melodious chirping of birds, we would certainly like to be awakened by their musical voice instead of the honking of our neighbor's car! But how to attract them near the house? Obviously concrete houses are no bait for them, but bird feeders certainly are. So what exactly are these bird feeders? Bird feeders are different devices that contain food for birds and are placed outdoors.

Interesting Facts about Bird Feeders

• The type of birds that visit the bird feeder depends on the food kept in the bird feeder.
• Most of the songbirds are attracted to mixed seed feed, however, hummingbirds are attracted to liquid nectar and birds like woodpeckers, flickers etc. are attracted to suet feeders only.
• Squirrels are also a regular visitor of bird feeders, however they do not feed there, they carry the food in their cheek pockets to their hoard! There are also squirrel-proof bird feeders.
• Bird feeders are used for birdwatching by many bird lovers.

These were some of the interesting facts about bird feeders.

Easy Bird Feeders for Kids to Make

You must have understood that there are different kinds of bird feeders, so if you wish to attract some specific birds, you need to make bird feeders especially for them. However, for practice, try the following easy bird feeders and when you become an expert in making these, go for feeders like the hummingbird feeder.

Bagel Bird Feeder

Making a bagel bird feeder is quite easy; you will need a bagel, string or yarn, plastic knife, peanut bird and birdseed. Firstly cut the bagel in half, spread peanut butter on the flat side and set aside. Spread lots of birdseed on a paper plate, and press the bagel, the side which is buttered into the birdseed. Now tie the sting onto the bagel and hand it on a tall branch. Soon you will see a flock of birds feasting on the bagel!

Cookie Cutter Bird Feeder

This is one of the easy bird feeder for kids. Kids usually do not like to eat bread heels. Instead of making them eat, teach them this interesting and easy way of making a bird feeder from the bread heels. All you have to do is, simply punch out a shape from bread heels with the help of a bread cutter, make a hole on top of it and keep it for drying. When the heel dries completely, apply a layer of lard to it, roll it on bird seed and then hang it on a tree using a twine. You can make this bread feeder even everyday, and the best part is that you can even get rid of it when you think you had enough of bird chirping!

Donut Cereal Feeder

You will need a pencil, string and a donut shaped cereal. Tie the pencil at one end of the string the donut through the other end of the string. Untie the pencil and tie both ends of the yarn together. Hang this necklace type of bird feeder on branch for the birds to enjoy.

These were some of the easy bird feeders for kids. Try all of these and see which kinds of birds are attracted to the different bird feeders. Once you know this, you can experiment with different materials and ingredients.