DIY Milk Jug BirdHouse

Don’t toss that milk jug, lets recycle it into a craft! An easy craft for toddlers and kids to recycle milk jugs into a DIY Milk Jug BirdHouse . You can also use this as a bird feeder.

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I have always loved making crafts so naturally I’m always trying to think of fun crafts to make with my son and my nephew. They’re still little (2 & 1.5) so I try to find crafts that don’t need a ton of work and crafts that they can mainly help decorate. They both love to color and draw. I saw a photo of a milk jug birdhouse on Facebook a while back and we decided to give them a try. You could also fill these with bird seed and turn them into bird feeders. 

What you’ll need to make a DIY Milk Jug Bird House: (directions below)

What should we use to decorate milk jug bird houses? 

The boys used crayons, markers and stickers to decorate their bird houses. You could also paint them! 

I let the boys color and draw all over the milk jugs before stuck stickers everywhere and then I cut out the doors, glued on the paper straw window seal and tied twine on the top to hang it. 

They loved decorating them and Jackson was super excited to hang his bird house outside. He even gathered up some mulch and grass to put in the birdhouse for the “tweet tweets” haha. 

More fun kid craft ideas:

• DIY Pre-Packaged Swiss Roll Bats
• Easter Bunny Cotton Ball Photo Footprint Craft
• DIY Toy Story Forky

DIY Milk Jug Birdhouse

DIY Milk Jug Bird House

Yield: 1 bird house or bird feeder

Prep Time: 5 minutes

Active Time: 15 minutes

Total Time: 20 minutes

Difficulty: Easy

DIY Milk Jug Bird House -  An easy craft for toddlers and kids to recycle milk jugs into bird houses. You can also use this as a bird feeder.

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Materials

• Milk Jug
• Stickers
• Crayons
• Markers
• Twine/String
• Paper Straws
• Hot Glue

Tools

• Hot Glue Gun
• Scissors

Instructions

1. Wash and dry milk jug.
2. Carefully cut a window into the front of the milk jug, but leave the window flaps.
3. Draw window panes on the cut flaps.
4. Let kids decorate milk jugs with markers, crayons and stickers.
5. Hot glue a paper straw onto front of milk jug under window for a window seal perch.
6. Tie a string to top of milk jug.
7. hang as bird house or fill with bird see and use as bird feeder.

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