A fast and straightforward Owl Chicken Feeder Craft for you immediately. Upcycle juice cartons or milk cartons to make this nice craft for our feathery pals. It’s a nice little craft all 12 months spherical, however I particularly like making this all through the autumn and winter months, as our little feathered pals profit from a elevate of additional fowl seeds and feeding!
Firstly, I have to apologise on this craft put up for you – I forgot to take some photographs as we went alongside as the children and I have been so absorbed in what we have been doing! However I do have the step-by-step directions so that you can comply with and naturally a photograph of our completed milk carton birdhouse!
I feel the fowl feeder craft is fairly self explanatory and the extra data, corresponding to what supplies we used, you don’t want a photograph of anyway? Proper? So… right here, I unceremoniously share with you our Juice Carton Chicken Feeder Craft. We do love Owl Crafts!
Juice Carton Owl Chicken Feeder – Supplies:
- a juice carton
- enamel paints for the backyard or acrylic paints (although enamel paints are just a little extra climate proof)
- stanly knife or level scissors
- plastic bottle lids
- googly eyes
- craft stick/ lolly stick/ stick
- sizzling glue gun or good PVA glue
Milk Carton Owl Chicken Feeder – Steps by Steps Directions:
Making these Owl Chicken Feeders is comparatively fast and straightforward, however you do want to permit for drying occasions!
Paint the Juice Carton
Head to the recycling bin and see what empty containers yow will discover! Juice Cartons and empty Milk Cartons are after all excellent. Particularly the tall ones. Make sure that your empty milk carton or juice carton is cleaned and dried totally!
We began off by portray the juice carton. We discovered we would have liked to coats to make the color good and even. We used enamel paints (for flower pots and so forth), as these are waterproof.
Acrylic paints are water based mostly and received’t final as lengthy. Although you can use acyrlics after which add a coat of waterproof varnish.
Reduce out your owl feeder shapes
As soon as dry, use a pencil to stipulate the shapes you need to lower.
Then utilizing your craft knife, lower out a “tummy and wings” into the underside half of your juice or milk carton. I used the the stomach, to then lower a beak form.
As to the wings, don’t lower all of them out, you need to preserve the “flaps” connected – merely lower a big u form into the aspect of the carton. This retains the seeds just a little bit extra sheltered and provides you these beautiful owl wings!
Add the bottle prime Owl Eyes
Lastly, take your juice carton and glue in your bottle prime eyes. We used completely different sizes caps to offer it the owl have an effect on. And performed. I later punched just a little gap and hung the fowl feeder exterior with some twine.
I discover the eyes we made, actually make this into an “owl” craft. However after all you’ll be able to unleash you creativity and have a take into consideration how one can adorn your milk carton to make completely different sort of birds.
Fill with fowl meals
Dangle with twine and revel in.
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We merely LOVE the milk carton homes!
And when you love owls as a lot as we do.. jump over and make a few of these Owl Cupcakes!