After your loved ones juices oranges or eats the sections inside, the peels normally find yourself within the trash or on the compost heap. This week’s Maker Monday undertaking offers new life to these citrus shells by creating “orange peel bird feeders.” Kids can do an act of kindness by serving to preserve birds fed through the winter. The design is straightforward however practical: Besides holding birdseed contained in the orange peel, the bamboo skewers give small birds a handy place to perch whereas consuming their lunch.
Place your birdfeeder in a place the place you possibly can watch the visitors of chirping feeding birds. As birds come to feed, establish them by the Audubon Society Guide to North American Birds or obtain the Audubon Guide Bird app.
As with all Maker Monday tasks, the steps are simple and so they’re all specified by element beneath. The supplies are issues chances are you’ll have already got at home or can get at a greenback retailer.
A security notice to child makers: Please work with a mother or father or caregiver on any Maker Monday undertaking and at all times be very cautious when utilizing instruments of any variety. This undertaking entails utilizing a drill, in order that first step must be performed by a grownup.
Maker Monday provides you’ll want:
- an orange
- bamboo skewers
- two items of string or twine (every about 18 to twenty inches lengthy)
- birdseed
- scissors
- a spoon
Maker Monday instructions:
Step 1: Cut your orange in half. Then juice it and scoop out the pulp or fastidiously take away the sections to eat.
Step 2: Pierce the orange shell with a skewer about an inch beneath the sting and feed it straight throughout by the other facet. Repeat with a second skewer, making an X throughout the center.
Step 3: Tie one string to every skewer, knotting the string on either side of the orange in order that the string extends up excessive of the orange, making loops for hanging on a department.
Step 4: Fill the orange shell with birdseed and cling it on a tree department or a department of a sturdy bush. Then look forward to hungry birds to find it and revel in a meal.
