As it is pleasant to wake up in the summer morning under bird's trills! All summer little singers please us with the songs and help to struggle with wreckers on personal plot. Easily find summer of bird to themselves forage: caterpillars, worms, bugs - but with approach of winter the insects hide and it becomes difficult for birds to get to themselves livelihood. To help little birds to endure cold weather and at the same time to decorate the site, it is possible to make simple and beautiful feeding trough with own hands
Simple and beautiful feeding troughs for your garden
Eco feeding trough
The simplest option is Eco feeding trough. Such feeding trough can be made together with children, they sudovolstviye will take part in this fascinating process. There are several options eco feeding troughs.
- iz dense cardboard the figure is cut out. Surely we do opening under eyelet on which the feeding trough will hang! Then we prepare gelatin according to the instruction specified on packing. We grease preparation from cardboard with gelatin and we strew with various sunflower seeds and grain. We leave to dry. We do eyelet of tape or dense rope.
- Pieces of bread, fat, fruit, seeds of sunflower, corn grain, rowan, dogrose it is strung on strong thread in any order. It is possible to decorate with such edible beads the fir-tree or pine growing on the site
- eco feeding troughs will be necessary for you for the following option: forms for cookies, twine (it can be bought in household shop), forage for birds-4 of cup, tablespoon gelatin-2.5, sugar syrup-3 of tablespoon, flour-1 cup. We mix flour, gelatin. syrup and forage. We display on molds for cookies. We do opening under eyelet and we put to stiffen. Weight stiffens 6-8 hours. When figures are ready, carefully we take out them from form and we bind twine. It is also possible to decorate with such figures fir-tree or pine, or to hang up on tree branch before window.
- One more option of edible feeding troughs is the feeding trough from bread or orange peel. To cut orange on two parts, to take out pulp. At once to attach eyelet!! To prepare mix as in the previous recipe or to mix bird's forage with the kindled butter. To fill with this mix half of orange and to leave to stiffen. In the same way the feeding trough is made of grain crust. We cut off rather thick piece of bread with crust, accurately we get crumb, we attach eyelet we fill with grain mix and we put to stiffen.
Feeding trough from bottle
It is possible to make birds feeder of plastic bottle. Will be necessary for production of feeding trough: plastic bottle, marker, twine, stationery knife, glue, various tapes and beads. For a start the plastic bottle needs to be washed up and exempted from the label. On clean and dry bottle marker we mark the place and form of openings to which birds will fly. Then stationery knife accurately we cut out openings in bottle. That birds were not wounded, it is necessary to melt off edges of openings a little by means of match or the lighter. At us preparation of feeding trough turns out. We take glue, it is better to take liquid nails or glue gun. By means of glue we paste over bottle with twine and we decorate with tapes and beads. In cover of bottle we do opening, we pass through it eyelet. The feeding trough is ready.
In the same way it is possible to make feeding troughs of box from juice or milk. It is possible to use acrylic paints instead of glue and twine and you will be able to turn the feeding trough into anything: the fantastic house, the spaceship or even in cheerful penguin.