Birdseed Ornaments

Every now and again, I like to find a pin from Pinterest and test it out. For this weeks craft, I decided to try to make my own bird feeders, like the ones featured here. This is how they’re supposed to look:

To make these bird feeders, you will need:

2 packets of unflavored Gelatine

1.5 cups of birdseed

Something to use to hang your feeders. I used hemp because that’s what I had. The original post used twine, but you could probably use just about anything.

You’ll also need some cookie cutters and waxed paper.

To make your bird feeders, bring a 1/2 cup of water to boil on the stove. Once the water boils, remove from heat and add in both packets of gelatine.

Once your gelatine is dissolved, stir in your birdseed.

Here is where normal people would lay their waxed paper down, set a cookie cutter on top of it, fill the cookie cutter half full with your birdseed gelatine mixture, lay your string down and then continue filling it until its level with the top. I did not have any waxed paper, so I Pam’d a cookie sheet and went on with filling my cutters.

I ended up doubling the recipe, so I had some birdseed left over. Instead of doing more cookie cutters, I wanted to see what would happen if I used a cupcake tin. So I Pam’d that up and filled each spot with seed and a string.

Once you have all of your seed distributed, all you have to do now is let them dry. I let mine sit about an hour before I fooled with them. I very gently pushed on seed ornament until it came free from the cookie cutters, and to get the ones out of the cupcake tins, I took a sharp knife and pried them out.

Here’s one of my cookie cutter feeders! And here are my ornaments from the cupcake tin:

They’re all now hung out in the yard for the birds to enjoy. I’ll definitely have to remember this for winters in Virginia when food becomes scarce for the birds. I’ve also seen another variation on the gelatine/birdseed feeders where someone has taken a bundt pan and created a whole entire wreath to hang in the trees for the birds! Happy Feeding!