Looking for low cost Gifts you can Craft! Try this mine came out Amazing. I’m giving 5-8 per family.
Recipe:
4 cups of wild bird seed (not too many big seeds)
1/2 cup of warm water
1 envelope of Knox gelatin
3/4 a cup of flour ~OR~ (I used pancake mix)
3 tb corn syrup ~OR~ (Pancake syrup if you don’t have corn syrup)
Cookie cutters
Twine
How to make…
Oil your cookie cutters & place on wax paper.
Mix 1 gelatin pack with 1/4 cup of very hot water. Stir very well until it’s totally dissolved. Put bird seeds & flour in a bowl and mix. Add in your water with gelatin and syrup. Stir everything together.
Fill cookie cutters half way with the birdseed mix. Press down well.
Make a loop with your twine & knot. I knotted the loose ends too. Place on top of the first half of birdseed mix in cookie cutters loop hanging out, knot in center. Cover with seed mix and pack to the top nice and tight. I kept putting oil on my hands it gets very sticky and that helped. I pushed them out of the cookie cutter after about a half an hour really slowly & let dry over night.
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