Birdy Treats!

Brooklyn has been staying with us for the past few weeks and we've been having lots of fun having some extra time with her. We've tried to do some fun things with her so when Amy sent me a link to these bird feeders I knew we needed to try making them.

Once I told Brooklyn she would not stop talking about making the feeders or Amy. She told me "I've never played with your best friend." She was so excited. 

Last Tuesday Amy came over and we made the bird feeders. We followed the instructions minus the part where the cookie cutters were really big and the part where you spray the cookie cutters with cooking spray and they seemed to turn out fine. The recipe says it makes two bird feeders we double the recipe and we ended up with closer to ten bird feeders.

Mixing up the gelatin and the birdseed.

Brooklyn and Amy putting the birdseed into the cookie cutters.

All ready to go into the fridge.

The finished product!

One recommendation... The directions say to let cool in the fridge for one hour for the gelatin to get hard. We found that you need to let the bird feeders dry longer than that one hour. If you don't let them dry long enough the string will slide right through the bird seed and fall on the ground. (We found out the hard way after breaking three feeders.)

The original recipe can be found HERE.