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How to Make a Pine Cone Bird Feeder

A Family Activity

By Michelle Hedgecock

Materials:

• Pine cones
• Bird seed
• Large tray or baking dish for holding bird seed
• Yarn or string
• Peanut butter (creamy)
• Butter knife or Popsicle sticks for applying peanut butter

STEP 1:

• Find a special pine cone (take as long as you wish here, your parents will carry all of your potential choices for you).

• Wrap the string around the pine cone for hanging later.

STEP 2:

• Spread creamy peanut butter all over the pinecone (it doesn’t take much, just enough to hold the birdseed — well, actually this is something you’ll want to see for yourself anyway so go ahead and start out with half a jar of peanut butter per pinecone).

STEP 3: The fun part!

• Roll the peanut-buttery, gooey, messy, pine cone in the tray of birdseed.

• Lick peanut butter off your fingers.

• Be sure to wipe your little, sticky, peanutbutter hands on the furniture, mommy and daddy, your hair and clothes, and any pets…

• Do not eat the bird seed — a little bird will grow in your stomach. (Okay, that’s not true. A small plant will.)

STEP 4:

• Hang outside where you can watch the birds fly in and eat from your pine cone.

• Fun with field guides! Try to identify the birds that visit your feeder before the cats get to them first. •

www.familycorner.com/family/leisure/peanut_butter_and_birds.shtml <--Yes, it’s okay to use peanut butter :)

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About the Author
Michelle Hedgecock is an artist/writer, naturalist, mom, wife, & creativity coach who loves connecting people to nature (including one's inner nature) for creative growth. Visit her Web site at www.thenaturecoach.net.