Now it's pretty easy to buy or make the bird feeder yourself from scrap materials. And so that it does not look boring, you can decorate it with various decorative elements. Children especially like this process, because here they can show all their imagination. Let's consider what materials can decorate the feeder, and what better not to use.
Bird Feeder Decoration
RWorking with the feeder and inventing different elements of decor, you can make it a bright and unique decoration of your yard. There are a lot of design options: you can initially make it an unusual form, as well as use paints, colored paper, different pictures, inscriptions and original miniature figures.
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A wonderful decoration is a delicious garland - dried pieces of berries, fruit or lard strung on thick fishing line or wire. You can also get a similar edible design element by cutting out two identical figures of hearts, rings or stars from cardboard, and then apply a thick layer of flour paste to them and sprinkle with a mixture of dry fruits and seeds.
When the figures dry up, you need to lay a rope between the two halves and glue them together. Perfect tasty decoration is ready!
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From plastic bottle
To decorate the feeder from such a bottle, it is good to use other plastic elements. For example, you can paint the bottle green and stick carved bottoms on it from other bottles, decorated in different colors. Thus it turns out to build a real flower bouquet.
You can also put on the bird's dining room beautiful patterns, figurines, ornaments. If the size of the bottle allows, then it will perfectly accommodate the whole landscape. The choice of colors and scenes remains only for the master.
Learn how to make your own feeder
It looks great twine wrapped around the feeder - just do not forget to pre-apply glue to it with PVA. Also, the bird's house can be decorated with natural materials: rowan berries, pine cones, spruce twigs, dry leaves.
You can also put funny inscriptions on the trough with ordinary multi-colored markers and stick a small children's toy or an old hair clip on it. Interesting jewelery is obtained from macrame woven threads. Such a product will definitely be exclusive and will be remembered by all residents and guests of the yard.
Important! An excellent choice of food for filling the bird's dining room will be the seeds of sunflower, pumpkin, watermelon, melon, as well as millet and oats. And the bluebirths will like small hanging pieces of bacon.
From wood
Wooden trough looks more noticeable and more thoroughly than cardboard or plastic. Other wooden elements such as small twigs, sticks, and sticks are well suited for its decoration. Of them you can, for example, build a miniature woodpile in the corner of the feeder. The branches are well suited as roosts so that the birds can rest on them. And on the roof, made of twigs or straw, you can plant toy chicks. Sustained in a similar style, the trough will turn into a real house in miniature.
If you initially build a feeder in the form of a small house, hive or mill, then it will attract maximum attention. It is good to use real birch bark or coarse twine in the finishing of wooden works, and the texture of the material itself gives it its charm.
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A fine decoration is a gouache or acrylic paint, covered with several layers of protective varnish. Also, appliqués using the decoupage technique look great - thanks to the lacquer coating, they resemble painting on wood.
Winter or New Year motifs are well suited to decorate bird dining. However, you should not get carried away and decorate the entire product, so as not to scare away the birds.
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Video: Original bird feeder
Out of carton box
Such bird dining as if they themselves are asking under the artist's brush. Cardboard is an ideal material that allows to transform the feeder with paints. The choice of colors, patterns and plots depends only on the desire and imagination of the author. The themes of birds, plants and winter are very common. By the way, images can be combined by pasting the picture you like and finishing the background and patterns or using stencils.
Troughs look beautiful, in which only the roof is painted, or individual elements are drawn - the entrance is circled, a tile or an ornament of leaves is drawn. And an additional layer of varnish or varnish will protect such a house from precipitation and cold.
You will probably be interested to learn how to make a feeder for pigs, chickens, rabbits and hawks
Than you can not decorate the feeders
Not all items are suitable for decorating the house-dining room for birds:
- objects that make noise or rustling may scare the birds;
- a large number of shiny elements will also scare away feathers;
- objects with sharp and cutting edges can injure the bird;
- use safe paints to avoid harmful toxic secretions;
- choose moisture resistant materials and elements;
- Do not violate the trough or block the entrance.
Important! Birds are used to living in the wild, so the most favorite colors for them are all shades of wood. If you disguise the feeder under a natural design, you will have more opportunity to see the long-awaited guests there.
No need to look for expensive items to decorate the feeder: the simplest things can be an interesting element of the bird's dining room and get your new life. And the process from the idea to the finished product will certainly bring a lot of joy and pleasure - this is an excellent occupation that can unite the whole family. Include your imagination and create!
Video: Original bird feeders
