Instructions

1. Use a piece of newspaper to cover your work space to help protect your furniture and ease the clean-up. To make the base of the bird feeder, line 10-12 wooden sticks next to each other.

2. Glue 3 wooden sticks perpendicular (about 1-inch apart) to the sticks you’ve lined up on the newspaper and let dry. This will help hold the base of the feeder together.

3. Flip over the wooden base. Start gluing wooden sticks around the perimeter of the base, overlapping the ends of the sticks.

4. Continue gluing the wooden sticks around the perimeter of the birdfeeder until it reaches your desired depth, or about 2-to-3-inches deep. Let glue dry.

5. Take a 4-inch, wooden dowel and glue it to the base of the bird feeder, allowing a couple of inches to stick out the side for the birds to perch on.

6. Along the perimeter of the feeder, thread a piece of twine under all four corners the wooden sticks and tie tightly. Combine the 4 loose ends of twine at the top of the feeder and loop into one knot.

7. Hang the bird feeder on a tree in your backyard, fill it with s