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Outdoor Living
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Homemade Bird Feeder
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Use this simple craft as a decoration or hang in a protected area of a porch. 

You will need:
Cardboard tube
Paper or plastic cup
Plastic lid
Plastic drinking straw or dowel
Yarn or chenille stick
Glue
Scissors

Instructions:
Decorate a bathroom tissue tube, paper towel tube or a section from a wrapping paper tube. Try sponge-painting! Cut a door and punch holes near the tube's bottom. Insert a straw or dowel.

Glue a larger plastic lid to the bottom of tube. Punch holes and insert a chenille stick hangar in the bottom section of a paper cup. Cover the top of the tube with the cup. Add bird feed.

More Ideas:
To make the feeder more waterproof, cover the tube with plastic wrap or aluminum foil.

Attach a fake bird on the straw for an even prettier decoration.

 

 
 
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