Winter Bird Feeders to Make with Preschoolers
If you’d like to help your kids make easy Christmas presents, do an easy Christmas craft, or just add a few nature lessons to your Christmas season, making winter bird feeders is a fun and easy way to do all three.
We make these every year, and enjoy watching the winter birds that come to visit our home.
What you need:
Whole grain bread, toasted
Smooth peanut butter
Bird seed
A drinking straw
Colorful string or yarn
Christmas cookie cutters
What you do:
Toast the bread then let it cool. Use Christmas themed cookie cutters to cut Christmas shapes out of the bread.
Cover one side of each shape with peanut butter.
Pour some birdseed onto a plate. Place the cut bread on the plate, peanut butter side down. Press the bread down so the birdseed will stick.
Remove the bread, and lay it down on the counter. Use the straw to make a hole at the top of your new bird feeder. Pull colorful string or yarn through the hole and hang on a tree branch!
Now sit quietly and watch who comes to enjoy your Christmas treat. 
Have fun!
After the birds have eaten their snack, they might carry away the string for their nests.
