We live in Florida and the weather here has been beautiful for past 2 months. My daughter and I spend most of our quarantine in our patio. Our mornings are filled with sweet birdie tweets and melodies. Last week I decided to make a bird house and we up-cycled our empty milk mug into this cute little bird house.
You need scissors, an empty milk jug and some duct tape to make this bird house. We used some acrylic colors and stencils that we had on hand to decorate it but this step is totally optional.
I used my duct tape to trace 2 circles on the milk mug and cut them out with scissors. Use your judgement if you are going to let your little one handle the scissors.
Then we both covered the cut circles with pieces of duct tape as shown in the picture, just to protect the birds from any sharp edges.
Decorating our bird house was so much fun. My little one loved having the freedom to pick colors of her choice and sponging the paints all by herself. She was super excited to remove the stencil and see how beautiful the flowers turned out.
After the acrylic colors dried out I took out my clear spray can that I had left over from years ago and sprayed it lightly on our design to protect it from rain. I closed the bird holes with the cut out circles and tape as shown in the picture as not to get any spray inside the bird house.
We used couple of bamboo skewers from our kitchen and made little platform for birds entrance as shown in the picture above. After getting the skewers in right position I cut off the sharp pointed ends a little so that it will be completely safe for the birds. You can instead use the popsicle sticks if you have.
I used an Xacto knife to make small slit on the top of the jug next to the cap and put a bird feeder chain through as shown in the picture. Then we hung it on a tree next to our patio using a S hook.
We filled the bird house with wild bird food and we desperately waited for it’s visitors. The birds took couple of days to visit our bird house. Few sparrows and cardinals enjoyed the feed but soon squirrels invaded it. Nonetheless my little one enjoys squirrel watching too so it was still a win for us.
Hope you enjoy making a bird house with your little one as much as I did. Let me know what you think about our bird house in the comments. I would love to hear from you. Thank you for stopping by.
