Milk carton bird feeder

Children make a sparrow feeder from a milk carton and hang it outside the window.

Steps

1. Chat: what a sparrow looks like, where it lives and what it eats.
2. The teacher cuts openings in a washed milk or juice carton.
3. Children cover the carton with coloured paper or paint it.
4. They push a stick through the holes as a perch and pour in bird seed.
5. Hang the feeder outside the window and count the bird visitors for a week.

Tip: Sparrows like millet and sunflower seeds; never feed birds bread.

Materials needed

• Wild bird seed (1 pack)
• Acrylic paints (1 set per group)