DIY bridseed feeders

Good sunday morning!

How about a little diy for weekend?

These little bird seed pucks are so cute and easy to make.

I love the look of them being very natural with the added dried orange and cranberries.

Let's get started,

You will need a box of unflavored gelatin, some bird seed, water and muffin tins and some spray oil for the tins. 

Start by spraying your tins and set aside.

Now in a bowl measure 8 cups of seed.

(you can half this recipe if you don't want to make this big of a batch)

Set bowl aside

In another bowl

Measure 1 cup of cool water and add to the bowl with 4 envelopes of the gelatin and stir for 2 minutes so that it dissolves well. 

Let is sit while you take another 1 cup of water and boil it in a pan on the stove.  Once boiling add to the bowl and stir til completely dissolved, should mostly be dissolved already. 

Now add to the bird seed and stir thoroughly until the seeds are fully coated in the gelatin.  Let sit for a minute then stir again. 

The seed will start to get a little heavy looking, 

you can at that point start to scoop the seeds into your tins

with a spoon being sure to fill to the very top of each tin.

Take a straw and gently push down into the seed to make a

hole in the center.

Now here's the hard part, let dry for at least 24 hours before inverting the tins to take them out.  

I did this by putting some wax paper over the top of the tin then gently inverting the pan over some wax paper.  They dry very hard so if yours are somewhat soft turn on the oven at the lowest setting and set on a cookie sheet for about 10 mins and remove and let dry for an hour. 

While you wait your 24 hours for them to dry you can now try a hand at drying cranberries and oranges.  I use my over where as I know many have air fryers that work too.

For the oven method slice your oranges 1/8" thin if you can and arrange on a lined cookie sheet with parchment paper.

Take your fresh cranberries and set them right onto the pan as well and put into the oven at 200 for 2 hours being sure to check the first hour and turn your oranges.  Take them out and let them also harden up over night. 

I also grabbed some fresh rosemary from my yard to add to the feeders.   Get some twine and wrap through the hole of the puck twice tying it off at the top with a knot.

Using a hot glue gun, glue the orange down first with just a little tiny

bit of glue and then the cranberry and rosemary.

They are so cute!

Bag them up and gift them away or store them and hang them in your trees for the winter feeding!

Hope you have fun making these!

Super easy!