How to make a feeding trough

How to make a feeding trough

With arrival of spring on streets of the cities our feathery friends appeared. In the city it is hard for birds to provide themselves with a forage therefore some of us help them - construct feeding troughs, birdhouses, just feed up on the street. Feeding troughs can be seen practically on each tree in the park. Someone hangs up them at himself at a window to observe life of birds.

Instruction

1. What it is possible to make a feeding trough of? Material selection, or a subject of which the feeding trough will be made is limited only to your imagination and free time. The feeding trough can be made of a plastic bottle, of a cardboard box from under juice, etc.

2. Feeding trough from a plastic bottle. It is possible to make a feeding trough of a plastic bottle in two ways. It is possible to make a feeding trough, using only a bottom of a bottle or all bottle. From a plastic bottle it is necessary to cut off a bottom of centimeters 5–10 and by means of a fishing line to fix on a tree branch. The second way: in a plastic bottle make a rectangular opening and also fix on a branch, I use a fishing line. Also it is possible to cut out a feeding trough of an original form from a plastic bottle, for example, in the form of the boat. The feeding trough from under juice can be made of a box in the similar ways.

3. But you should not limit the imagination to production of feeding troughs from plastic bottles and cardboard boxes. As material for a feeding trough also the coco can serve. Having cut, it in half and having taken out a core, the remained shell can also be fixed on a tree branch, for example, decoratively having decorated with red tapes and by that to betray to an originality feeding trough.

4. As materials for a feeding trough can serve anything: any plastic box from under some trifle, a can of coffee, any subject rounded or a rectangular shape with a superficial bottom. For giving of originality and originality to your feeding trough any can decorate it in the way available to you, for example, with the bows which remained from a holiday, to make patterns on it, to use an ordinary watercolor or color self-adhesive paper. Decoration of a feeding trough can be entrusted the child, thereby showing it need of care of the surrounding nature.

5. Fix a feeding trough it is possible on the balcony, or on a windowsill and to watch life of birds. Place beautifully issued feeding troughs in the garden, at the dacha, having made a garden more alive and blossoming. But you should not forget that not only the birds living near you need fertilizing. Feeding troughs can be placed also in the green space.

Author: «MirrorInfo» Dream Team


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