Feed the Birds

For a winter craft project, Malcolm and I strung generic Fruit Loops cereal on yarn to hang in the trees to feed the birds and squirrels. He was much more excited by this than I imagined he would be. As he was threading cereal onto the yarn, he kept talking about how this one was for the baby birds, and this one was for the daddy birds, and that the mommy birds were really going to like this one. It was insanely cute. We made three very short loops, two medium size ones, and one very long string. That evening, he kept decorating one of the chairs with his creations, still talking about feeding the birds.

While we were making them, we came across a few pieces of cereal that were broken and unable to be strung. He insisted on collecting them up, then throwing them out the back door so that the birds could find them and have them now.

Today after school, we hung up our handiwork.


Holding up a medium size one. You can see the others we made on the right.


Hanging them on the tree.


The long string in the tree.

He is now very anxious for the birds to come and eat them. This was a great project that he really enjoyed. We may have to do this one again sometime.