Level of difficulty: Easy but time consuming. This is a good weekend project for patient crafters.

Age range: 4+ with help

An adult will need to help with the glueing and cutting. Kids will enjoy decorating and filling with birdseed.

Safety first: Keep craft knives, awl and hot glue out of reach.

The takeaway: Our milk carton bird feeder is inspired by the colourful Newfoundland row houses, but your bitty architect can design her house however she wants. It’s fun watching for the birds to stop by for a bite to eat.

You’ll need:

3 milk cartons (lightly sanded and painted white)

hot glue

wooden craft sticks

acrylic paint in various colours

awl

utility knife

pen

cardstock
twine

birdseed

Step 1

 Paint your prepped milk cartons with two coats of acrylic paint (washable paint won’t hold up outside) in colours of your choosing.

Step 2

This step is for the adults: Using a pen or marker, draw out your door making sure it’s big enough for the birds to fit and with enough space at the base of the milk carton to hold the birdseed. Cut it out with a craft knife.

Step 3

Decorate your houses anyway you wish. We painted windows and doors with white paint and went over it with black details.

Step 4

Glue the milk cartons together as shown above then glue a strip of cardstock along the bottom to make it one solid unit. The milk cartons will not stay together with regular white glue, so a hot glue gun is the bes...