Make A Bird Feeder

By Monica Painter

Attract birds to your yard by using a homemade bird feeder made by you and your preschooler! Using simple materials, preschoolers can be educated on the different types of birds, and enjoy spotting birds from afar.

What You Will Need

1 pine cone per bird feeder
peanut butter (enough to cover the pine cone)
bird seed
string

How To Make It

Tie string across the middle of the pine cone so pine cone can be hung from a tree branch

Cover the pine cone with a thin layer of peanut butter

Cover the peanut butter with a thin layer of bird seed

Hang homemade bird feeder where preschooler can readily observe birds eating from the bird feeder

Making it More Challenging

Get a bird identification book from your local library. See if your preschooler can identify the birds coming to your bird feeder

Make a graph of the different types of birds your preschooler identifies - graph making is an elementary math skill

Let preschooler predict how many birds will eat at the bird feeder

Create a homemade book with your preschooler about the birds who came to eat from the bird feeder. Encourage imaginative thinking, name the bird, describe how the bird felt when he spotted the bird feeder.