![]() I mixed together 1 cup birdseed, a ½ cup black oil sunflower seeds, and a ¼ cup of cornmeal. So I decided to get busy with the math and calculate how I could make a smaller version of my birdseed ornament recipe (that uses 4 cups of seed) to make a small 1½ cup size batch instead. One of these 4.3″ clay flower pots will hold about 1½ cups of birdseed. Now things are ready to add the birdseed mixture! This will end up being the hanger for your bird bell. Next, I cut a piece of yarn to about 24″ long, folded it in half, and then pushed the folded end through the hole in the bottom so that about a 4″ loop of the yarn was now sticking out. I then took a pencil and poked through the wax paper and out the hole in the bottom of the pot. Some folds in the paper are perfectly OK and won’t show up on your finished bird bell. To get everything ready for the birdseed mixture, I first lined my pot with some wax paper. One handy thing about using a flower pot as your mold is the hole that’s already in the bottom, which will come in handy later in the process when you are inserting your string for hanging your bird bell. Some quick measuring on my part showed my pot to be 4″ high and 4½” across the top. To make a homemade birdseed bell I used a clay flower pot that was labeled as a 4.3″ size. And although I used a clay flowerpot, you could probably use some other type of disposable container for this method too, such as a plastic yogurt container, or maybe one of those red Solo cups. Of course the first challenge when you want to make a homemade birdseed bell is how can you get that shape? I decided I could put my recipe mixture into a small flowerpot to get something of the same sort of shape and was pretty satisfied with my final result, although I wish the bottom was just a bit wider like the store-bought type. This year I got out my recipe for homemade birdseed ornaments again too but then decided to do something a little different with that recipe – – I decided I could turn this mixture into homemade birdseed bells! Most of the time I make my DIY suet cakes which are fun to make in different flavors and that I put in my little suet cake cage out on the tree. This is the time of year when I love to make some homemade creations for the birds to enjoy.
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