How Do You Make Bird Seed Eggs?
Mixing bird seed with suet, or raw beef fat, not only attracts pretty birds to your backyard and provides them with nutrition all year round, it is a fun and educational activity. You can mix bird seed and suet yourself or help your children with this project any time of the year, rain or shine. Suet and seed are especially appreciated by birds in the winter, when food is scarce. Just make sure you replace the feed as necessary; birds will get into the habit of coming to your home if you feed them even once. You can paste this mixture of birdseed and animal fat to cardboard and let the birds pick it off, hang it in trees or mold it into shapes. Egg shapes are easy to make and especially appropriate in early spring, when birds begin to build their nests. Make these eggs on a rainy spring day and hang them on a sunny afternoon. Render the animal fat, available at butcher shops, before involving your children, if you intend to. Chop it up very finely with a sharp knife, and melt it in a d
