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Winter Decorating the Birds Love: 6 Ideas to Brighten Up Your Holidays Outdoors
Want to decorate outdoors for the holidays?
Think about beautiful and bird-friendly decorations
Most options are hand-made easily, but a some are also available commercially.
1. Make an Outdoor Garland
Decorate outdoor trees or festively drape your porch entryway.
Use a craft needle and thin twine to string up your choice of stale popcorn, cranberries, whole peanuts, pieces of cereal, and sprigs of evergreen.
2. Edible Outdoor Ornaments
Hang edible ornaments singly or in groups, from garlands, snowmen, or outdoor trees.
You have a wide choice in decorative, edible ornaments for the birds:
Pine Cones
Make peanut butter cones, or roll cones into warm homemade suet.
Birdseed Ball Assortment, Set of 6
Seed Bells and Ornaments
You can find both bake and no-bake seed bell (or other shapes) recipes to make at home, or buy one of the widely available ornaments, like this sunflower ornament.
Treat Baskets
Hang small baskets, available from a craft stores, filled with wild bird.
Orange cups
Poke half-oranges with hanging wire. You can leave the half-orange intact, or hollow out and fill out with bird feed.
3. Wreaths
Wreaths made out of seed, fruit, and other bird feed are always a hit. You can hang these not only on your front door, but also on posts, columns, and trees around your residence.
Wreaths come not only in a traditional shape, but also as a solid wreath
4. Seed Bundles
Sheaths of oat, wheat, corn, or sunflower heads can be made by tying the items together with ribbon or yarn. They can be hung from trees or other locations where the birds can easily access the seeds.
5. Edible Structures
Another kind of edible birdseed decoration is shaped like a birdhouse.
They come in a variety of styles and colors, but corn may be the most common style. This Edible Birdhouse
Although more rare, you can find other edible structures. Kits are sometimes available.
