This is a fast and easy project that even the kids can help out with. We hung ours from a tree right outside the kitchen window so we can watch who comes to enjoy.
You should have seen the looks on my new neighbors faces watching me take a bajillion pictures of bird feeder, they think I am nuts!
Here is how to do it:
Supplies:
- small pumpkin pie pumpkin, or an acorn squash, gourd….
- wooden dowels
- bird seed
- wire
Cut off the top portion of the pumpkin. If you are using a squash, cut low enough to make sure the dish is not too deep. Now clean out the seeds, this is where the kids can help. I used a little paring knife to make the holes for the dowels by twisting through the side. But you could pull out a drill if you are feeling like using a power tool ;). Make two holes across from each other and then make two more a little lower so that one dowel will cross over the top.
Wrap the wire around the dowels a few times and then once at the top to join them. Fill with birdseed.
To hang mine I slid off two of the wires and strung over a branch, then just slid the wire back over the dowel ends.
Cute and easy! It would be fun hung from a garden hook too, or maybe a few hanging from the hooks where your flower baskets hung this summer.
Hope everyone had a great weekend. We went camping and I have dirt everywhere. So I am off to do another load of laundry…
Destri
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This is fantastic! What a great idea :)
What a super idea and earth friendly too. Glad you went camping great weather to go. :)
This is great! We made a bird feeder out of an old milk jug last year and it wasn’t near as pretty! And when do I get to see the infamous long lost Destri? I hear she’s in the neighborhood…. :)
My kids and I made one of these this afternoon out of a pumpkin that we grew in our garden this summer. We didn’t have any dowels, so we just used some sticks from the yard. Thanks for the idea.
This is such a super idea!
What a great idea! thanks for sharing :)
This is a really cute idea and will give me a use for the too many pumpkins I end up with after canning. I would like to add that I personally would put a few tiny holes in the bottom of the feeder so rain won’t collect in it and spoil the food.
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I absolutely love this idea and can’t wait to do this with my kids! Thank you so very much!
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