Juice Carton Crafts: Owl Bird Feeder
A quick and easy Owl Bird Feeder Craft for you today. Upcycle juice cartons or milk cartons to make this great craft for our feathery friends. It is a great little craft all year round, but I especially like making this throughout the autumn and winter months, as our little feathered friends benefit from a lift of extra bird seeds and feeding!
Firstly, I need to apologise on this craft post for you – I forgot to take some photos as we went along as the kids and I were so absorbed in what we were doing! But I do have the step by step instructions for you to follow and of course a photo of our finished milk carton birdhouse!
I think the bird feeder craft is pretty self explanatory and the additional information, such as what materials we used, you don’t need a photo of anyway? Right? So… here, I unceremoniously share with you our Juice Carton Bird Feeder Craft. We do love Owl Crafts!
Juice Carton Owl Bird Feeder – Materials:
- a juice carton
- enamel paints for the garden or acrylic paints (though enamel paints are a little more weather proof)
- stanly knife or point scissors
- plastic bottle lids
- googly eyes
- craft stick/ lolly stick/ stick
- hot glue gun or good PVA glue
Milk Carton Owl Bird Feeder – Steps by Steps Instructions:
Making these Owl Bird Feeders is relatively quick and easy, but you do need to allow for drying times!
Paint the Juice Carton
Head to the recycling bin and see what empty containers you can find! Juice Cartons and empty Milk Cartons are of course perfect. Especially the tall ones. Make sure your empty milk carton or juice carton is cleaned and dried fully!
We started off by painting the juice carton. We found we needed to coats to make the colour nice and even. We used enamel paints (for flower pots etc), as these are waterproof.
Acrylic paints are water based and won’t last as long. Though you could use acyrlics and then add a coat of waterproof varnish.
Cut out your owl feeder shapes
Once dry, use a pencil to outline the shapes you want to cut.
Then using your craft knife, cut out a “tummy and wings” into the bottom half of your juice or milk carton. I used the the tummy, to then cut a beak shape.
As to the wings, don’t cut them all out, you want to keep the “flaps” attached – simply cut a large u shape into the side of the carton. This keeps the seeds a little bit more sheltered and gives you those lovely owl wings!
Add the bottle top Owl Eyes
Finally, take your juice carton and glue on your bottle top eyes. We used different sizes caps to give it the owl affect. And done. I later punched a little hole and hung the bird feeder outside with some twine.
I find the eyes we made, really make this into an “owl” craft. But of course you can unleash you creativity and have a think about how you can decorate your milk carton to make different type of birds.
Fill with bird food
Hang with twine and enjoy.
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We simply LOVE the milk carton houses!
And if you love owls as much as we do.. hop over and make some of these Owl Cupcakes!