DIY Bird Feeder: Easy Homemade Craft for Backyard Birds

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Homemade Bird Feeder

Use this simple craft as a decoration or hang in a protected area of a porch. 

Materials:

• Cardboard tube
• Paper or plastic cup
• Plastic lid
• Plastic drinking straw or dowel
• Yarn or chenille stick
• Glue
• Scissors

Instructions:

1. Decorate a bathroom tissue tube, paper towel tube or a section from a wrapping paper tube. Try sponge-painting! Cut a door and punch holes near the tube's bottom. Insert a straw or dowel.
2. Glue a larger plastic lid to the bottom of tube. Punch holes and insert a chenille stick hangar in the bottom section of a paper cup. Cover the top of the tube with the cup. Add bird feed.

More Ideas:

• To make the feeder more waterproof, cover the tube with plastic wrap or aluminum foil.
• Attach a fake bird on the straw for an even prettier decoration.