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HOW TO MAKE A POPSICLE STICK CRAFTS BIRD FEEDER - Easy craft make for the garden
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Jan 15, 2025
In this video you will see how to make a simple but cute little bird feeder from popsicle sticks. You may know them as craft sticks or lolly sticks depending where in the world you live. You will need: Popsicle sticks (like these from Amazon https://amzn.to/3pLYouJ) Scissors (like these from Amazon https://amzn.to/2HnhXs8) Glue (hot melt glue or waterproof wood glue) Twine or string to hang it up with If you want it to last you will probably need to varnish or it similar. They are great to hang under a bird table where they get some protection from the weather. If you like crafting then take a look at my blog at https://christines-crafts.com/ Remember to subscribe to my channel and hit the bell so that you always know when I post a new video. I aim to post them every week so stay tuned for more great creative ideas.
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hi i'm going to show you how to make a
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bird feeder
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out of popsicle sticks or craft sticks
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or lolly sticks depending on what part
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of the world you're from
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these are really easy to make so you
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could make one this afternoon
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and i'm going to show you exactly how
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i'm christine from christiescrafts.com
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so let's get started what are you going
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to need
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well you're going to need some craft
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sticks or popsicle sticks some twine or
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thread to hang your feeder
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some scissors to cut the sticks and some
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glue
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throughout this tutorial i'm going to
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use hot melt glue but
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a nice waterproof wood glue would work
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really well
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so the first thing you need to do is
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make the base of your feeder
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so lay some of your crust sticks out i'm
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just using a ruler as a nice straight
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edge so that i can lay them out
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and i'm using another stick so that i
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can see how many i need
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now i've got the base i'm going to look
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to support it from underneath
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if you've got some shorter sticks use
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those fail in that
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cut a couple down just to make some
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supports
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so you can see how i'm going to place
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them on mine it's just going to hold it
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together a little bit better
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so now i've got everything i need i'm
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going to
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take one of my craft sticks not one of
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the ones i laid out
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cover it in hot melt glue and stick it
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on the ends
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of those craft sticks and that'll hold
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them all together now you'll see they
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try and move out of the way they can be
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a little bit tricky but just persevere
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and then do the same on the other side
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so directly opposite the first stick
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we're going to stick another one
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and then to get that extra support apply
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some glue to your shorter sticks
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and position those you could have made
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them longer you could have made them
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shorter you could do a zigzag pattern
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you can do what you like it's just about
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extra support underneath your feeder
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and then turn it over and we can start
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building the feeder on the top
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so the first thing to do is take one
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craft stick and put glue
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all the way along its length and then
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stick it
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onto the other craft sticks in exactly
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the same way as you did
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underneath and repeat it on the other
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[Music]
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side
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and then we need to put craft sticks in
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exactly the same way
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but on the other two sides i've just
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turned it round so i can repeat the
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process
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and start to build a little wall on the
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other side
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you'll see i've put glue all the way
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along no need to do this
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i don't know what i was thinking about
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at the time you just need to put some
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glue on the very
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ends because that's all that's going to
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stick down to the craft sticks
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on the other sides so now you just need
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to be applying glue to the ends of your
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craft sticks
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and now all you really do is repeat but
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you'll notice that on mine i also added
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in a couple of perches for the birds
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so if you want to do that you just need
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to take a craft stick
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cut it in half and that's your two
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perches
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so you're going to stick it to the first
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layer of craft sticks that you put onto
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your base
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i've put it near one corner and then i'm
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going to do one
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in the opposite corner but the reason
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we've put it on that layer is so that it
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just gets sandwiched nicely in a moment
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as i add the next layer
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so now get your neck stick just glue the
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ends
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and stick it on so that it goes over one
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of the perches that you've just glued on
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and do the same again over the other
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perch
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and now it's simply a case of building
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those walls up to make the sides of your
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bird feeder
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it's just so that it holds the food in
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place while your birds come and find it
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so i've spread this bit of foam up so
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you can just see me building it
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up
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and we just keep going
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keep working in pairs you'll see i keep
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taking the glue off my fingers that's
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the joy of hot melt glue
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but just keep going until you're happy
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with the height
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it's entirely your choice for how deep
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you want it
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i wouldn't get too deep she's gonna
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start getting a little bit heavy
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if we just keep going and then i'll
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pause to make sure i'm
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happy with the height of mine and i'll
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be able to show you what the edges look
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like
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to get that nice sandwiched effect
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[Music]
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and that's it it's ready so we just need
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to string it
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so i'm using twine and i've poked it
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through from the
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inside to the outside wrap it around one
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corner
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and poke it back in and then now you
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need to tie that off so it's nice and
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secure
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doesn't matter what knot you're using
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just nice and secure
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so i took the string from inside to
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outside
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round the corner and back in
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and i'm now going to take the long
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length and repeat that
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in the diagonally opposite corner
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so again see i'm going to poke out from
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the inside
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and i'm going to demonstrate here how
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tricky it is
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it can be very awkward to get it through
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just persevere
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if needs be you could always thread it
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on a big fat needle and poke it through
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and then round the end around that
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corner
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and back in and then knot it in exactly
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the same way as you did the other one
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and once you've got this hanging loop
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you need to repeat it
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for the other two corners so you end up
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with two big loops
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which you can knot together and make a
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little loop at the top
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just to hook over your branch or your
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bird table hook or whatever you're going
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to hang it to
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these work great underneath a bird table
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as an extra source because they get
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protected from the weather
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so there you have it completed bird
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feeder
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you can trim off those extra strings so
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they don't get in the way
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as you can see my scissors are great
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and you're all finished so
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repeat that for the other two corners
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and then hang it in your garden
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here's a nice brightly colored one i
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made as well which is great for kids
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