Spoon-feed your winged neighbors with this
homemade birdseed dispenser.
| Prep Time: Under 1 hour | |
| What you need: | |
| Clean 1-liter soda bottle
Craft knife 2 wooden spoons small eye screw Length of twine for hanging | |
| Seasons: Fall, Spring, Summer, Year round | |
| Materials: bottles, salt | |
| Instructions: | |
| 1. |  Start by drawing a 1/2-inch asterisk on the side of a clean
1-liter soda bottle, about 4 inches from the bottom. Rotate the
bottle 90 degrees and draw another asterisk
2 inches from the bottom. Draw a 1-inch-wide circle opposite each asterisk, as shown. |
| 2. | Use a craft knife to slit the asterisk lines and cut out the circles (a parent's job). Insert a wooden spoon handle first through each hole and then through the opposite asterisk, as shown. |
| 3. | Remove the bottle cap and twist a small eye screw into the top of it for hanging. |
| 4. | Finally, fill your feeder with birdseed, recap it, and use a length of twine to hang it from a tree. |
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