We had a fun day of crafting today. Liam painted his very own treasure pot, as we call them. The girls made theirs two summers ago, as depositories for all of the treasures they collect on our walks outside, and they are brimming over with neat sticks, leaves, seed pods, rocks, pine cones,... I thought it was time for Liam to have his own, since we are going to be outside more and more these days!
The girls and I are learning about birds right now, so we thought it would be nice to provide places in our yard that would attract more birds. With that in mind, in addition to rehanging (and refilling) our birdfeeders and stacking some brush in the corner of the yard, we made our own bird baths. It was quite fun and pretty easy. We'll see how well they hold up!
We have already been rewarded for our efforts, because this evening we spotted two tufted titmice (titmouses??), several house sparrows (not my favorite, but cute nonetheless) and possible a carolina chickadee visiting our feeder! We are pretty sure the robins will like our bird baths, too, and we have several in our area, as well as a couple of cardinals, so we are excited to see what we might attract!
Here is a slide show of our painting process.
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Nice painting job, Liam! Very colorful :)
ReplyDeleteThe birdbaths are lovely - how did you end up connecting them?
Hope your yard attracts some nice new residents!
lol I liked Katy's better before I realized the blue was a face and not nice flowing blue lines. :) Most impressed, though! Where did you pick these up? I'm always on the lookout for fun out-of-the-ordinary crafts to do with my kiddos.
ReplyDeleteonline - glue together two 4" flower pots, one 5" saucer on top, then a 10" saucer on top of that. Seal inside and out. Then paint! We are waiting to fill them with water for temps at night above freezing!
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