Kaytee Kids' Zone
  
Avian Tree Decorations

This is great anytime of the year, but especially during and after the holiday season with your own Christmas tree.

Materials:
  • Cotton String
  • Heavy Needle
  • Thread
  • Scissors
  • Kitchen Knife
  • Peanut Butter
  • Kaytee Suet
  • Kaytee Wild Bird Food
  • Nuts
  • Apples
  • Oranges
  • Popcorn
  • Cranberries
  • Pine Cones
Directions:

Choose a small evergreen tree or a shrub near a window, so you can enjoy watching the birds visit your decorated tree. Trim the tree with the following items:
  1. Pine cones covered with peanut butter and rolled in Kaytee Wild Bird Food
  2. Popcorn and cranberries on a string
  3. Orange halves filled with fruit and or nuts
  4. Kaytee Suet hung in suet holders


Cookie Cutter Feeders

Materials:
  • Stale, but not moldy, grained bread
  • Cookie cutters
  • Yarn or string
  • Peanut butter
  • Shortening
  • Kaytee Birders' Blend
Directions:

Cut out bread shapes using the various cookie cutters. Attach yarn or string through the center of the bread. Spread both sides with peanut butter and shortening mix, (1 part peanut butter to 1 part shortening). Sprinkle with fresh Kaytee Birders' Blend Bird Food. Hang from a tree and have fun watching the birds! Set the remaining bread scraps out on the lawn for birds to eat as well.

Cupcakes for Birds

Materials:
  • Muffin pan
  • Cupcake papers
  • 1 lb. suet in small pieces
  • 1 c. chunk-style peanut butter
  • 1 c. rolled oats
  • 1 c. yellow cornmeal
  • 1 c. Kaytee Waste Free
  • 1 c. Kaytee Oil Sunflower Seed
  • String
Directions:

Melt suet over low heat. Stir other ingredients into fat until blended. Pour into cupcake papers placed in muffin pans. Poke hole in the middle of entire cupcake with a straw. Chill until hardened; remove paper and put string through hole; hang your feeder.

Fruit Cups

Fruit cups are great for migrating warblers, thrushes, orioles, wrens, tanagers and grosbeaks. This is best done in Spring and Summer.

Materials:
  • Grapefruit halves cleaned out
  • Any mixture of fruit - berries
  • Orange or apple pieces
  • Raisins
  • Kaytee Fruit-Eating Birds brand of mixed food.
Directions:

Cut the grapefruit into halves and clean out the fruit so it can be used as a cup. Fill it with a mixture of your choice of fresh fruit then add Kaytee food for Fruit-Eating Birds. Set the fruit cup outside close to your bird feeders.

Extension:
Orange halves mounted with a nail through the center will also attract many of the migrating birds.

Honey-Rice Cakes

Materials:
  • Honey
  • Rice cakes
  • Variety of Kaytee seeds (sunflower, millet, thistle, etc.)
  • Spoons
Directions:

Spread honey on rice cakes, then create mosaic or different patterns or designs by placing the different types of seeds on the cakes. When you are finished with your creations, place the cakes outside and hang them for the birds to eat.

Pine Cone Feeders

Materials:
  • Pine cones
  • Knife
  • Bowl for mixing
  • Spoon
  • Peanut butter (chunky)
  • Shortening
  • Kaytee Songbirds brand bird food
  • Raisins
  • Cereal
Directions:

Combine one part shortening and one part chunky peanut butter. Spread mixture over pine cone with knife. Roll pine cones covered with peanut butter/shortening in a mixture of Kaytee Songbirds food, raisins, cereal or any one of those ingredients. Hang seed covered cones on branches.
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