Easy To Make Garden Feeders For Your Garden Hummingbird
Garden Feeders can be made from several different items. From simple to elaborate, your Garden Hummingbird will not care. The most important thing will be ease of use and access to nectar. With this in mind, items like small vials, insulin bottles, plastic bottles and even baby food jars can be used to create beautiful Garden Feeders. The nice thing about making your own feeders is that you are most likely recycling an item for a different purpose. Just last year my Girl Scouts each created several small Garden Feeders. They were made with baby food jars. Each one was unique, decorated with anything and everything RED. We used paint, ribbon, beads, sequins, rhinestones, small red silk flowers and anything else we could find in our homes. The only cost for this project was heavy gage wire, which is very reasonable. The wire was used to create a hanger for the garden feeder. This was a recycling service project for the girls. After the garden feeders were completed, they were donated to local senior centers and convalescent homes. Each garden feeder came with one bottle of homemade nectar, also made by the girls and instructions for creating more. The girls really enjoyed the project and if these girls can make their own feeders, so can you!
Baby Food Jar Garden Feeders:
Materials:
1 clean baby food jar
Red adornments
Steps:
Adults should do this step
Using a nail or ice pick, poke a 1/8 inch hole in the lid of the baby food jar.
Decorate the jar with beautiful red adornments
Using heavy gage wire, create a hanger. Wrap around the lid area.
Fill the jars with homemade nectar.
Enjoy….
August 30 2008 01:36 am | garden feeders