Materials:
- Water
- Newspaper (about 10 pages, cut into strips)
- Wire hanger
- Bucket
- Duct tape
- Fishing line
- Beads
- Strainer
- Window screen
- Peanut butter
- Birdseed
- Drill with drill bits
- Decorative Suet Ball Feeder
Step-By-Step Instructions:
Step 1
Fill a bucket half full with water and add newspaper strips. Allow the paper to soak for about 15 minutes. Then squish and roll the paper in your hands to extract the water. Repeat this process a few times until the paper is in very small pieces.
Smooth peanut butter across each side and sprinkle with birdseed.
Step 2
Use duct tape to attach a window screen to the top of the bucket.
Step 3
Rinse the small pieces of paper a few more times by pouring it over the screen to remove most of the water. Squish and roll it again and put it into a clean bucket of water. Repeat until most of the ink is washed away.
Step 4
Pour the paper over your screen one last time. Allow it to sit for a while so most of the water is removed. You want it wet, but not so wet it won’t mold into your shape. Begin shaping your paper into a softball-sized heart (or a different shape of your choice). The base of your paper feeder should be about an inch thick. Allow it to dry.
Step 5
Drill a hole in the top of each side of the heart. Thread a piece of fishing line through one hole, tie and add beads. Thread the line through the other hole and tie.
Step 6
Spread peanut butter on each side of the paper heart feeder and dip into seed. Then just hang it up!
Create more shapes, like moons and stars. String cranberries or popcorn instead of beads to the fishing line. Use your imagination and make this feeder your own!
Mary Lou says
I think something is missing in this recipe. there is no way that the wet paper would stick together to form a shape. Had no luck with this one. Looks nice though.
Deb Hehn says
I think you are supposed to mix it with watered down glue after the last rinse.
cindy says
would think the glue unhealthy for birds
Lee says
Have not tried this yet, but having been an art teacher for 35 years, I’d save the trouble of squishing the water from the newspaper. Try putting torn (one inch pieces) just tear – don’t cut.
We put the torn pieces and soaked pieces in a blender and drain excess h2o. Make your shape and let it dry.
I will be trying this recipe to feed the birds.
AMC says
Make natural Bird Cookies!
Use old (but not moldy) bread slices cut with simple-shaped cookie cutters!
After cutting desired shapes, brush both sides of bread with some hand-beaten egg ‘glue’, then press onto bird seed placed in a large plate or bowl, then bake for several minutes to adhere the seed. Poke a hole carefully into baked shape with pencil and tie onto nearby tree with string or ribbon…perfect ‘bird cookies’!
Jackie says
Love this bird cookie idea!! Thanks for sharing!!
Leslie says
what temp and how ling to bake bird cookies??
Patty says
Terrible directions!!! Steps left out, confusing information, poorly organized…Where’s the editor???
Lee says
It is not confusing. It is not poorly organized. It reads simple to understand directions to make the heart feeder. Nothing hard to understand about making this feeder.