Start by cutting a length of craft wire from the spool – but be sure to maintain the spiral shape. You can also intermix plain Cheerios with the fruit on your bird feeder, if you have some of those lying around. The internet tells me that some of the most popular fruit to feed birds is: oranges, apples, crabapples, concord grapes, cranberries, blueberries and raisins. Wire snips (from the tool chest or jewelry making tools).To make you own kid-friendly fruit bird feeder, you will need: We have suet feeders and a couple of traditional feeders filled with black oil sunflower seeds (they’re the most crowd-pleasing when you consider the entire gamut of species that can visit your yard), but then I discovered that you can feed birds fruit as well.Īnd of course you can! Birds love fruit trees and garden beds – why wouldn’t they love to visit some handmade bird feeders laden with fruit? It wasn’t until Lucy suggested that I put up a bird feeder that I realized how much fun it could be to get creative with bird-feeding. Our backyard is host to a bunch of little sing-song birds (and some bigger, more impressive species). This winter, the girls and I have started a new project: we’re feeding the birds!
