How to decorate a bird feeder?

On cold winter days, birds are in great need of food. Special feeders, carefully hand-made from different materials, will help them find food. In order for the feeder to attract birds, it should be decorated in an original way. At the same time, you need to make sure that the craft does not frighten the birds with bright colors or inappropriate decor. How to decorate feeders made of wood, plastic and other materials will be discussed further.

With the onset of winter, you can increasingly see bird feeders on trees or other devices. Hand-made crafts are more common. Such products can be easily built by yourself. Both a young child and a teenager can cope with such work. Adults can also participate in this fun process and create a quality craft. If it's easier for kids to make models out of cardboard or plastic, then adults can independently make a wooden model or a plywood product.

Beautiful original works can take their rightful place at school exhibitions, they can be done for a competition.

When working on decorating models, you should adhere to certain requirements.

• Non-toxic materials should be chosen for processing the dining house. When using paints and adhesives, make sure that they do not contain harmful components that will be released, for example, when heated.
• After processing the product with a stain, adhesive or paint, it is necessary to completely let it dry, otherwise the birds can stain the feathers, which is destructive for them.
• The decoration of the house should not contain elements with sharp glass or metal edges.
• You should not paint the product in very bright colors, otherwise it can scare off the birds. It is also not recommended to use shiny items and decorations.

Since birdhouses are hung on the street, they must be made of moisture resistant material. Birds should have good access to feed. When designing a bird dining room, you need to make sure that it has a large entrance to accommodate both large and small birds.

In order for the product to look organic, it is advisable to choose the right decorative elements. So, when decorating a wooden feeder, natural materials are used. Artificial materials are suitable for decorating plastic structures.

One of the most popular materials for making a poultry dining room is wood... Such models also require decoration in the form of wooden elements. The houses are decorated with spruce branches, cones, rowan branches. Small details can be used to cut various figures, openwork elements. Bars or small branches are suitable as a perch.

For roof decoration, dry leaves or straw are suitable. A cozy wooden house in the form of a hut will protect the inhabitants from bad weather. Birch bark or twine wrapped around the walls are suitable as decoration.

Plywood is a versatile material. It can be bent into a rounded shape, or fine details can be cut out of it.

If products made of natural wood can be used without applying paints to them, then it is advisable to additionally paint the plywood feeder, since after a while, due to dampness, the material will begin to exfoliate.

Similar products made in technology look very interesting. decoupage... In order to beautifully decorate the feeder, you should pick up napkins with the desired ornament and apply PVA glue to the prepared surface. Next, the napkins are gently smoothed for good fixation. After drying, the house is covered with a quick-drying varnish. The appearance of such a product turns out to be very unusual, it directly depends on the pattern on the napkin. A New Year's drawing, floral or animalistic ornament looks very original.

It is recommended to paint products in soothing colors so that the coloring does not scare away birds.... For wood products, shades of green, blue or gray are more suitable, you can also paint the bird's dining room white. If you wish, you can paint the house with patterns, make a floral ornament.

During work, do not use toxic enamel with chemical solvents.... Acrylic paints are suitable for this. If desired, they can be mixed with PVA glue. Such a composition will create an additional layer on the surface and protect the surface from moisture.

Even non-standard elements, for example, pebbles and wine corks, can be suitable as a decoration for such products.

Many interesting and useful crafts can be made from plastic. This is a great option when making bird houses. There are many ways to decorate your plastic bird feeder.

• The designs are painted, colored tape or volumetric stickers are glued on them, and decorated with tinsel.

• Houses painted with paint look beautiful and original. Patterns and drawings allow you to create an unusual structure from an ordinary craft, giving it an original look. When choosing paint and varnish for coating, you should focus on products that are resistant to external influences.

• By winding the twine around the base, you can make a cozy dining house for feathered friends. To build it, you must first coat the container with PVA glue, and then wind a string around it, let it dry.

• An original roof made of straw or an old whitewash brush will complete the work and give the product a complete look.

Plastic containers can be of different sizes. The main thing is that they have an outwardly attractive appearance, not badly crumpled and worn. Even from a large 5-liter jar, you can build a convenient bird feeder.

When doing crafts, children should also be involved in the work. The child should understand how important bird feeders are during the winter. Usually children are happy to get involved in work. All processes associated with cutting out parts are undertaken by adults. The edges should be well processed or some plasticine should be applied so that the birds do not get hurt. This work can be entrusted to children. They are also engaged in the decoration of the house.

For decoration, you can take thin twigs, pieces of fabric or burlap. Even a small plastic bucket with a lid will come in handy when creating a cozy place for birds.

Plastic bottles, painted in one or several shades with a printed pattern, look very nice.

To create a bird's dining room, you can use different materials, choose various decor techniques for decoration, use paints, enamel, varnish. Even an old vessel is suitable as a bird house. It remains only to tie a cup or saucer to a rope or chain and pour the beans into the container.

Using the materials at hand, if you wish, you can make original feeders with your own hands. Wire or wire mesh is suitable for this purpose. A thin chain and a metal cap will complement the product.

Old cans are a great option for creating a feeder. They can be dyed and hung on a satin ribbon by wrapping it around the jar. To make it convenient for the birds to peck the seeds, a thin twig-threshold is tied to the edge of the container.

A bird feeder can even be made from branches of different thicknesses. The simplest construction consists of four sticks with crossbars at the corners. By decorating the craft with chips and thin branches, you can build an attractive canopy.

You can also fold the twigs into an original house, with a thatched roof like a village hut. Such a natural material, chosen as a decoration, will attract birds. Branches are also used to decorate wooden products. They make beautiful roofs, facade elements.

It is preferable to make feeders from plastic, wood or plywood, as they are more reliable. However, cardboard has many advantages as well.

Cardboard products are, in fact, short-lived, but making a feeder out of this material is very simple. Even a small child can decorate such a product.

Although such a product will not last long, you still want to decorate it beautifully. Armed with colored paper, felt-tip pen or paints, you can turn an ordinary box into an original structure or give the craft an unusual look.

To create a craft, you will need a box or other cardboard container. Out of the box, you can build a structure in the form of a house or a mill, cut out in the form of an animal or bird figurine.

It is not difficult to make a product by taking paper containers from kefir or milk... The box can be pasted over with colored paper, glue interesting details, supplemented with unusual fittings. Needles, dry branches and leaves, twine, satin ribbons are used to decorate such a house. Pine cones, chestnuts and acorns will help to complement the decor.

You can color the box, separate elements in the form of an entrance or a window.

As an additional design, toothpicks or sticks are suitable, which will act as a perch.

When choosing cardboard for crafts, take into account that this is a light material and in a strong wind the feeder will spin and sway, so the birds will not sit on it. To increase stability, it is better to attach such products to a branch or trunk.

To make the craft last longer, it is recommended to cover it with a layer of special varnish. This layer will help protect the product from heavy rain or sleet.

For information on how to decorate a bird feeder with decoupage technique, see the next video.