Step-by-Step Bird Feeders With Plastic Bottles

Sharing your yard with local bird species is both enjoyable and beneficial to your yard. Birds help transfer seeds and perpetuate the continuing growth of flowers and vegetation. While you can attract birds into your yard with flowers and fruit trees, you can also make inexpensive bird feeders using plastic bottles. Plastic bottle bird feeders are a simple project to make at home or in the classroom. Children enjoy watching birds feed from the feeders they've made.

Things You'll Need

• Utility knife
• Measuring tape
• Twine
• Unsharpened pencil
• Bird seed

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Instructions

1. • 1

     Hold the plastic bottle upright on a flat work surface; a 2-liter soda bottle is ideal for birds of different sizes. Cut a window into the bottom area of the plastic bottle using a utility knife. Leave a 2-inch border along the bottom of the window, and cut the window at a height of 4 inches to accommodate medium- to large-sized birds.

   • 2

     Unscrew the cap to the plastic bottle. Tie a length of twine around the bottle neck, leaving about 1 foot of twine hanging on either end. Screw the cap back onto the bottle to keep the twine in place.

   • 3

     Puncture a hole on either side of the cut-out window using the utility knife. Push the unsharpened pencil through one hole, and pull it out the other side to form a perch for birds to sit on.

   • 4

     Pour a few inches of bird seed into the bottom of the plastic bottle bird feeder. Tie the ends of twine around a sturdy tree branch in an area where you can view the bird feeder from a window.