We always keep hearing things like – “There is no such thing as ‘away’. When we throw anything away, it must go somewhere.” And hence, why we must recycle stuff for all it is worth to make it into something else instead of simply throwing it away. And I can now proudly say that I did my bit, however small, in this regard.
Well, we converted one of our used milk cartons (which we generally through away in the trash can) into a real, actual bird feeder! All that was required was a box cutter – I used it to cut square openings on two sides of the cardboard carton, opposite of each other. Timothy wanted to make his carton very colorful – he apparently thought that more birds would be attracted to it this way – and so he set about giving it various coats of paint with his brush.
Once the paint was dry, I placed an old craft stick through the box which would eventually act as a perch for the birds. Another poke to make an opening at the top of the carton to run some yarn through it and we were done with our recycled, super colorful bird feeder! Sarah used a little scoop to put in some bird seed and there it is on one of the trees in our garden, waiting for the little birdies!
Well, we converted one of our used milk cartons (which we generally through away in the trash can) into a real, actual bird feeder! All that was required was a box cutter – I used it to cut square openings on two sides of the cardboard carton, opposite of each other. Timothy wanted to make his carton very colorful – he apparently thought that more birds would be attracted to it this way – and so he set about giving it various coats of paint with his brush.
Once the paint was dry, I placed an old craft stick through the box which would eventually act as a perch for the birds. Another poke to make an opening at the top of the carton to run some yarn through it and we were done with our recycled, super colorful bird feeder! Sarah used a little scoop to put in some bird seed and there it is on one of the trees in our garden, waiting for the little birdies!