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How to make your own homemade birdseed ornaments
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Homemade Birdseed Ornaments

Make your own birdseed ornaments to hang in the trees for your bird friends to enjoy.
Yield: 12 ornaments
Author: Beverly

Equipment:

  • Muffin Tin (To use as a mold)
  • Wooden Spoon (To use to make center holes in ornaments)
  • String (for hanging ornaments in trees)

Materials:

  • 4 cups birdseed
  • 3/4 cup flour
  • 1/2 cup hot water
  • 1 packet unflavored gelatin
  • 3 tablespoons light corn syrup

Instructions:

  • Mix the birdseed and the flour in a large mixing bowl.
  • Heat the water in the microwave (you want it hot enough to dissolve the gelatin).
  • Pour the packet of gelatin into the hot water and stir to dissolve.
  • Add the 3 tablespoons of corn syrup to the gelatin mixture (I did all this right in the measuring cup)
  • Pour the gelatin mixture into the bowl of birdseed and flour and stir until everything is well mixed.
  • Scoop some of the birdseed into each section of a muffin tin (or whatever you are using for a mold). Use the handle of a wooden spoon to make a hole in each of the sections. This will allow you to put a string through the birdseed ornament for hanging.
  • Put the birdseed ornaments in the refrigerator overnight to harden. Once the birdseed ornaments have hardened, use a spatula to pop them out of the muffin tin.
  • To hang your finished ornaments, cut a piece of string about 12" long, thread through the hole in the middle of your ornament, and then tie the ends of the string in a knot.