I recently had a fun evening creating birdhouse ornaments with a group and today I am sharing this super cute idea with you.  This is a great activity to schedule in place of a cookie swap or a wonderful craft to make with children (though a wee bit messy).

These ornaments are simple to create.  Decorating a small, inexpensive wooden birdhouse from the craft store with seeds, corn, and millet creates a feeder for the birds when placed outdoors.  Use your creation as indoor décor on your holiday tree.  I put a little bird on mine!  Or, use it to decorate a holiday wreath – it would look sweet in the middle of a wreath!  After the holidays are over, place it outside as a treat for the birds!

Purchase small wooden birdhouses from the craft store.  In addition, you will need bird seed to decorate the houses.  Also, disposable bowls to make ‘glue’ to adhere the decorations to the house and disposable foam brushes to apply the glue.  Here is the recipe for the ‘glue’ – totally edible for your fine feathered friends!

Edible ‘Glue’ recipe is: ¾ cup flour, 1/2 cup warm water, 3 Tablespoons corn syrup, and 1 package of Knox unflavored gelatin.

To make the ‘glue’, pour the flour into a disposable bowl.  Add the water and mix.  Add the corn syrup and mix again.  Stir in the gelatin and whisk together until the lumps have smoothed out.  Reminiscent of paper mache paste, this mixture adheres the decorations to the birdhouse.

Smear the mixture you have created heavily onto the birdhouse and attach your decorations, aka bird food.  We used sunflower seeds, dried corn, and millet.  (Millet is sold at pet stores for parakeets).

If you cover your workspace, use disposal bowls for the ‘glue’ and apply the ‘glue’ with small disposable foam brushes, cleanup will be simple!

Let your creation air dry for 24 hours.

I hope you are inspired to create an edible birdhouse ornament!

Have a fabulous week!

Thanks for stopping by.  Remember to take pleasure in simple things, Jackie