Welcome back to good day.
Yesterday I was out of the
studio doing some crafting
and today Amanda and I are
in studio doing some crafting.
And I think the segment before
kind of leads us into this.
You know, we saw the owl, right?
Well, it's time to grab the kids
because they can help the birds.
So I think Maggie did help me
with this a little bit last night
to sort of get it started, OK?
And so she helped dump some things
in and help fill the water.
So what we're going to do is make little
ice cube bird feeders that you could hang on.
Trees outside.
This is great during the winter season.
Yeah.
Considering the birds kind of go a little
bit hungry at this point in the season.
They're working their way out
of the deep woods, you know,
looking for more food.
And so you'll have it for them hanging
on your tree in your backyard or and
then you can spy them outside your window.
So it's kind of a win.
Win for everybody.
Yeah, absolutely.
And you can make them look really pretty
so that they're like nice to look at.
OK.
So I'm gonna show you the two that I
have like pre done yesterday or so.
I should be able to just pop these out.
What you're gonna need for this
is a silicone.
Ice cube tray.
This one has bird seed and blueberries
in it and that just has bird seed
and some raisins I think maybe, yeah,
there's some raisins here up top.
You can kind of see them in there.
But yeah, they look great.
They came out pretty good.
Yeah.
And they're definitely cute to look
outside your window to bring you
know your feathered friends over.
So what you'll need,
what else you'll need, you'll need one,
like I said,
one of the the silicone ice cube
trays and then you're gonna need some
twine and you'll just cut it into
to pieces and make loops so that
they like it'll freeze inside the
ice cube so that you can hang them.
You'll need some clothes pins just
to hold the the twine in place
so that they don't fall and and
they don't freeze in and they
don't freeze it into it.
Yeah and then you'll want some
bird seed and then fruit.
So I cranberries is what they used
and I didn't have any on hand but
I have some blueberries and I have
some dried cranberries and raisins
which I looked it up and the and
of the birds can eat all three of
all all of those so you they they
can't have chocolate but they can
have fruit so that's what we're
going to do so if you want you
can get started start.
We'll be dumping in some bird seed.
Alright.
Like about how much, you know,
I went like 1/3 of the way.
OK.
So that's a little bit more than I thought.
Yeah,
I know I put some in and then it realized
that it wasn't enough and then had to,
I feel like adjust. OK.
So I think we're good.
Then you want to add some more maybe.
Yeah, there's, there's like a couple
blueberries in there was what I
had left in the fridge last night.
I think that'll look pretty OK.
So yeah, this is what I have going so far.
Oh, sorry, I moved it on you so.
Bird seed
on the bottom and then some of the fruits
and you're really good. Yeah. Fruit
layer on there. And then what you'll
do maybe do I need to put this in you
will before we fill it with water. So
I'm just gonna do,
I'm gonna do one over here.
Put some seed in there and
then put some. Blueberries
from the bottom. Here
we go. I think that all these will
end up coming out pretty. Yeah.
And either way I'm pretty sure the
birds won't be too disappointed.
I don't think so.
They'll have some food to eat.
So yeah, you want to put the knot in?
Ohh the knot goes the knot.
OK, down in the bottom.
Alright, kind of jam it
all the way down there and then you'll
use the clothes pin just to hold it like
I said in place, like it kind of set
it on top. All right. Well, I don't
have mine in there deep, deep enough.
I probably should have made these
a little bit longer. That's OK,
you're the loops could have kind of
living and learning exactly, exactly.
And then you'll fill it like most
of the way, but not all the way.
Ohh, not all the way. OK,
most of the way. There we go. All
right. I might be like Maggie and spill
a little. She did spill not Diane.
Maggie did very good.
Voila. There we go. Wow.
And then put them in the freezer or nine.
And then you just hang them out.
Of course, ours are melting a little bit
here because we gotta get him outside.
Yeah, we gotta get outside.
We have plenty of birds here at the studio.
So I'm sure they're gonna be
happy with our good day project.
Yeah. And I do think it is a
good project to do with kids.
And then I did see some 30
degree days in that 10 days.
So there's still some.
Older days out there,
it might may have been good for a month,
a better a month ago.
But, you know, I saw it and I was like,
that's really cool, let's try it out.
Right. And like I said,
our birds are hungry right now.
And this is also something that,
you know, it's not just, you know,
Maggie approved for this young ones,
but also the grown-ups can do it too.
I mean, we want to feed the birds.
Yeah. And like you said,
look at them too, because there's
gonna be migrating here pretty soon.
We'll be seeing a lot.
Yes,
they're gonna be hungry.
There you go.