Welcome to day 7 of 31 Awesome Days of Fall Activities With Your Kids.  Today my daughter and I are going to show you How to Make a Simple Pinecone Bird Feeder!  It’s super simple and a lot of fun.  You just need pinecones, birdseed, peanut butter, and some twine or string.

We see lots of birds flying south so I thought this would be a great activity to do with my daughter.  She is very interested in birds, especially our chickens.  The day we did this project it was in the 90s in October!  Our weather is so unpredictable.  As I write this, our weather barely made it to 50 degrees, just a week later.  It could be 90 again tomorrow.  Oklahoma weather can jump drastically back and forth in the fall.  Sometimes it feels like we skipped fall altogether.

What your kids will learn from this activity

• fine motor skills
• following directions
• providing for wildlife
• bird watching

What You Need

• pinecones
• paper plates
• small bowl
• butter knife for spreading the peanut butter or craft stick
• birdseed
• peanut butter
• twine or string

How to Make Your Pinecone Bird Feeders

• Cut some twine to tie around the top of your pine cone.  Leave a loop big enough to hang on a branch
• Spread some birdseed on the paper plate
• Place some peanut butter in a small bowl.  Use your knife or craft stick to spread the peanut butter on the pine cone.

• Roll the pinecone in the birdseed until it is covered.

• Place the pinecone on an empty plate to dry.
• Hang the pinecone in a tree

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Conclusion

My daughter really enjoyed this activity.  She couldn’t wait to hang them in the trees and was excited to see birds eating the seeds.  We also fed the leftover bird seed to our chickens.  Have you made pinecone bird feeders?  Did you do anything differently?  Let us know in the comments below.