15 ways to make a bird feeder with their hands

Birds like the trough of the bottles, wood, boxes, orange peel, and even completely edible.

Bird feeders made of sticks for ice cream

What do you need

• Wooden sticks for ice cream;
• paint brush or spray paint;
• Scotch;
• glue gun;
• scissors;
• tape or yarn.

How to do

Paint sticks in any color and dry. Put some sticks on a straight surface, forming a bottom feeder. Reliability for secure them with tape.

Glue stick according to one of the two edges of the pieces next to each other. On the other edge attach more of a stick. In the same way add up a few rows. Outside, four vertically glue sticks.

Then make two pieces for the roof, as shown in the video. Separately, two glue sticks rib each other and glue them made items. Attach get the roof to the vertical supports.

Put together three sticks, and at the center of horizontal glue another. Cut the sticks with three sides and paste the item to the bottom of the trough. Pull the roof tape or yarn, tie a knot and hang the feeder.

Of wood you can build a house, and more durable. True, have to work hard:

A simple bird feeders out of plastic bottle

What do you need

• Knife;
• big plastic bottle.

How to do

Cut the top of the bottle a large hole. After this will only fill it with food, and hang on the handle.

You can also use a smaller bottle. Make it two through large holes and pass underneath a wooden stick. Pass the thread through the cover as shown in the video below, and hang the feeder.

Feeder from a plastic bottle with a spiked feed

What do you need

• Plastic bowl;
• scissors;
• awl;
• plastic bottle;
• small tray;
• bolt with a washer and a nut;
• knife;
• food for birds;
• wire;
• pliers.

How to do

If the bowl of a tall, trim the edges of it. Proceed to the bottom of the bowl and the lid of the bottle opening. Make a hole in the tray where the design will be installed. Connect the cover, bowl and tray, as shown in the video.

Cut above the neck of the bottle a small piece that can pass through the feed. Pour it into a bottle and tighten the cap to attach parts. By the bottom of the bottle tighten the wire and make it a hook. The details are in the video.

Turn the trough so that the bottle is upside down. From it will gradually fall out food in a bowl. To add a feed to the bottle, just open the lid, pour it and close the container.

Bottle can be attached to the board to sit the birds were even more convenient:

In this video, it shows how to make a similar construction of two bottles of different volume:

Feeder-house from a plastic bottle

What do you need

• Knife;
• plastic bottle;
• Jute twine;
• glue;
• scissors;
• braid;
• lace;
• plastic spoons;
• paint and brush;
• glue gun;
• wooden stick;
• wire.

How to do

Cut out the bottom of the bottle two windows next to each other. Wrap the bottle with string, attaching it with glue. Around windows glue braid, but to lower - lace.

Color spoon, dry and glue them to the top of the bottle, as shown in the video. Proceed under the windows of the hole and thread through them a wooden stick. Under the hood of the bottle, too, do the two through holes, insert the wire, tighten and hang the feeder.

Make a house can be different, such as:

Feeders for birds from a log

What do you need

• Brovnyshko small length of about 40 cm;
• drill;
• jigsaw;
• 2 wooden disc thickness of 2-3 cm;
• hammer;
• nails - optional;
• 2 metal hooks;
• a large chain.

How to do

With the two flat sides of the logs make the hole in circles long drill. Remove the timber from the cut core. Jigsaw saw out the opening as shown in the video.

Insert along the edges of the blank wooden wheels, and then tap with a hammer. That disc includes tightly, their diameter must match the diameter of the holes in the beam. Instead, you can nail the wooden circles outside. Then they must be the diameter of the logs. Screw the top hooks attach to them and hang the feeder circuit.

Bird feeders made of plywood and branches

What do you need

• Saw;
• thick and thin branches;
• drill;
• 2 square pieces of plywood;
• screws;
• pruner;
• roofing;
• staple gun.

How to do

Cut off thick branches from two of the same length and two pieces of a smaller one. You will also need five short segments of the branches of medium thickness.

Drill plywood angles one thin drill hole. On the reverse side thicker bit to drill, but not through it. Screw the corners of thick branches, on the one hand - one middle, and on each side - two averages. Details are shown in the video.

Weave of thin twigs fence around bolted foundations. Cut off the excess shears. Make a hole at the bottom. Attach the top of the second sheet of plywood and cover it with roofing material.

Attach the bottom of the trough to a long thick branch and insert it into the ground.

Bird feeders out of the box

What do you need

• Cardboard box (e.g., from the juice, or dairy products);
• paint brush or spray paint;
• scissors;
• wooden sticks for ice cream;
• glue gun;
• wooden stick;
• a thread.

How to do

Paint the box in any color and dry. Cut the wooden sticks in half and glue to the top of the box. Make of these front and rear part of the roof, as shown in the video.

Cut a window in a box, do the underneath and at the top of the opening of the box. Insert a wooden stick under the window, and at the top - a thread. Tie a knot and hang her bird feeder.

Edible bird feeders

What do you need

• 7 g of gelatin;
• 60 ml of hot water;
• 150 g of food for birds;
• a spoon;
• forms for cookies;
• needle;
• thread;
• scissors.

How to do

Dissolve gelatin in water. Stir the food and mix thoroughly. If the mass turns watery, add more food. Arrange food on the forms for cutting biscuits and tamp.

Leave for a few hours, to the mass of frozen. Remove the figurines of the forms, route through each of them a needle and thread, tie a thread and hang the feeder.

Feeders for birds from orange

What do you need

• orange;
• knife;
• 4 wooden sticks;
• 2 plastic plates;
• thick needle;
• scissors;
• thick thread or yarn.

How to do

Cut the orange in half and cut the flesh. One orange has received two feeders. Pierce each half peel with two wooden sticks crosswise.

Each plastic plate make one hole at the center and four holes opposite each other on the sides. Cut the thread or yarn four segments and tie each to a stick next to the skin.

With the needle thread the yarn in the lateral orifices on the plate, and then - in the central. Plate must be turned over downwards to form a roof. Flatten it and hang the bird feeder for thread.

Feeder can be simplified by simply hanging orange peel for the thread: