we made peanut butter bird feeders. i did some research. it won't kill the birds. but it may give them the runs.

li'l tot found a pine cone in our yard a couple days ago. and she requested to make a bird feeder with peanut butter and bird seeds. idk how she knew to make one with those ingredients because i had to google it.

i found one blog that was like "spread on the peanut butter and roll it in seeds" and i was all like "psh - i can totally do that." but then one of the commenters said that it would kill the birds. well folks. i certainly don't want any dead birds sprawled across my yard. so i did a bit of research.

and it's ok to use peanut butter. i found a couple sites that suggested mixing it with cornmeal to minimize the stickiness. and a couple others suggested mixing it with margarine. um. i did both. because what's gonna work? teamwork.

so with mixture in hand, li'l tot went to town with her pine cone. she used a spatula to spread the peanut butter and then she rolled the pine cone in bird seed. viciously. which pretty much sprayed bird seed everywhere.

baby, on the other hand, didn't care much for the bird seed (at first). instead. she used a different spatula and spread the peanut butter on her arms. then she tried to lick it.

and me. well. i found some pine cones and played, too. (i won't tell you what i coated in peanut butter.) and after all that fun, i got the ladder out from the garage, carried it to the backyard, and hung the pine cones on our tree.

hopefully, we'll spot a bird or two. pretty birds, that is. not the ginormous vultures that have been feeding off the dead fish (thanks to the cold snap) from the lake in my backyard. i mean. what do you say when your toddler asks you what happened to the fish's eyes? other than, "well. they're very nutritious which is why the vultures ate them. plus. they're easy to pick out."

yay nature!