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Bird Feeder

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Samantha

Winter snacks for our feathered friends and acquaintances.
Materials

Materials Needed


  • empty milk carton
  • string
  • birdseed

Instructions

Instructions


  1. Check with a grown-up before you begin. Cutting a milk carton can be pretty tricky.
  2. First, punch a hole in the top of the milk carton and put a string through the hole.
  3. Cut the milk carton starting 5 1/2 inches up from the bottom.
  4. Start in the middle of one side and cut all the way around to the middle of the opposite side.
  5. Then go back to where you started, and cut down about 3 inches, and then back around to the opposite side, and up until you meet the other cut. This will be a doorway.
  6. Then fill the carton with bird seed until it reaches the hole you cut in the sides.
  7. Using the string, hang the carton on a tree branch or something else outside.
  8. To find out more about what birds need and how you can help them, check out the ZOOM Into Action: Conservation Guide in ZOOM Into Action.




Some of your Results

Kassie, age 9 of Ohio wrote:
when I was done I saw 20 birds in 1. because I put alot of bird seeds ok. it was a lot of fun

Emilee, age 11 of Bremen wrote:
I tried to do the Bird Feeder and it didn't work as planned it turned out to be a bird remover instead of a bird feeder

Kamryn, age 6 of Madisonville, KY wrote:
i put peanut butter and oat cereal on it and the next day it was all gone.

Karley, age 14 of Pine Prairie, LA wrote:
When I made a bird feeder it ate all the food.

Emma, age 9 of Kingston wrote:
I filed it up and in a minit or tow it was allmost gone

Brianna, age 10 of Eutawville, SC wrote:
When I did it a lot of birds came and start to eat the seeds that I put out for them. When I get in 5th grade I'm going to do the bird feeder again.

Samantha of Stevens Point, WI wrote:
i made it so birds don't have to fly. it would be by the bird house.

ZOOM Fan, age 8 of Stratford, CT wrote:
it was sarce because I thout the bird was just going to peak me

Erica, age 10 of Eldridge, IA wrote:
It was awsome.

Jenny, age 9 of Toronto wrote:
nothing really happened it was for a school project, but I liked it!

Amber of Grover, NC wrote:
Birds starting coming to it.

Angelica, age 11 of Orosi, CA wrote:
the bird feeder was on the side of my hose and most of all the brids on the power line came down and it culapste

Amanda, age 13 of Toronto wrote:
Lots of birds ate atleast all of it!

Emily, age 12 of Monterey, CA wrote:
i filled it with flaxseed and our squirrels got some of it. I mounted a video camera and these are the species of birds that came; sparrow, goldfinch, woodpecker, and doves

Cheyenne of New Philadelphia, OH wrote:
I tolk a sota bottle cut it in half punched holes in it put bird food in it with techer's help she soper glued it to gether. I cut the top of and put a string to it put it together and you have a bird feeder!

Alli, age 9 of Wasila, AK wrote:
my bird loved it

Abby of San Juan, CA wrote:
Birds came to it!

Cecily, age 8 of Concord, NH wrote:
When I did it tons of birds came to my back yard. I relly loved it.

Masum, age 8 of New York wrote:
A lot of wild birds came to my house.

Ravin, age 9 of Detroit, MI wrote:
I made a bird feeder and the birds loved it so I kept on making them and birds kept on comming back until one baby bird got engered and I put on gloves and watched it fly away after I did my magic

Fabiola, age 9 of Miami, FL wrote:
it was beatiful when I did it the first day

Sarah, age 12 of Lunenburg, MA wrote:
It worked well it held for about two weeks which is good for plastic, Styrofoam and ducktape.

Anne, age 4 of Clarksville, AR wrote:
The bird's didn't eat the food.

Jane, age 11 of San Diego, CA wrote:
All kinds of birds came to my house.

Amena, age 9 of Brooklyn, NY wrote:
When I put my bird feeder in and put birdfood in it all birds started to come and eat eat and eat. But when you come outside they will fly away to a tree and stay they until you go back in the house. How I know this is because I look out in my window.

Kaitlin, age 11 of Coeburn, VA wrote:
The birds ate the bird food and then made a new birdfeeder.

Nicole, age 8 of Jax, FL wrote:
A bunch of birds came. I was so happy I could almost scream!

Rosario, age 9 of Anaheim wrote:
I had trouble with it but then I got the hang of it and it really worked! Suddently birds came to the feeder I took a pic. of them and it looked great!

Ashley, age 8 of Kenner, LA wrote:
When I did it 15 brids came.

Khaleb, age 4 of London, OH wrote:
Birds ate the food some birds kicked the other birds out because they were different.


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