How to Make Edible Bird Seed Ornaments

Feeding the wild birds in your area is a fun and rewarding thing to do. Birds appreciate your efforts, especially in the winter when food is hard to find. If you want to help them out in the winter, you can make durable ornaments for them to feast upon. Below are instructions on how to make lasting edible bird seed ornaments.

Things You'll Need

  • Peanut Butter
  • Suet
  • Cornmeal/Cracked Corn
  • Shortening
  • Raffia
  • Assorted Seeds
  • Cereal, Bread Slices, Peanuts or Dead Log
  • Cookie Cutters
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Instructions

    • 1

      Mix together 1 cup peanut butter, 1 cup shortening and 3 cups cornmeal until it forms a paste. If you are working with children who have a peanut allergy or if you have a peanut allergy, you can use vegetable shortening instead of peanut butter.

    • 2

      Take a cookie cutter and press it into a slice of bread.

    • 3

      Let the bread dry overnight.

    • 4

      Smear the mixture all over the hardened bread.

    • 5

      Decorate with seeds.

    • 6

      Use raffia to hang the ornament from the tree. Raffia is a string made of leaves of a raffia palm tree, so it is all natural and will not harm birds and animals or the environment. Be sure to hang the ornament where you can see it so you can watch the birds eat. However, make sure it is an area where birds will feel protected--near or in branches of a tree or bush.