DIY Gifts, Foodie Face Plates to Make for Gifts

Have a picky eater in your family? Like making gifts? Looking for a cool gift that you can make?

These Foodie Food Plates could be just the thing you need!   They'd even be fun for kids to put found non-food items on - or Play-doh.

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Bird Feeder to Make with Grandkids

This a quick and inexpensive way to make a bird feeder with your grandkids. In no time, you will be spoon-feeding your winged neighbors!

Materials

Clean 1-liter soda bottle
Craft knife
2 wooden spoons
small eye screw
Length of twine for hanging



Instructions

Start by drawing a 1/2-inch asterisk on the side of a clean 1-liter soda bottle, about 4 inches from the bottom. Rotate the bottle a quarter turn and draw another asterisk 2 inches from the bottom. Draw a 1-inch-wide circle opposite each asterisk.

Use a craft knife to slit the asterisk lines and cut out the circles (grandparent's job).
Insert a wooden spoon handle first through each hole and then through the opposite asterisk, as shown.

Remove the bottle cap and twist a small eye screw into the top of it for hanging.

Using a funnel, fill your feeder with birdseed, recap it, and use a length of twine to hang it from a tree.

Enjoy watchinng your new feathered friends!