Make a Craft Stick Bird Feeder with Your Kids

This craft stick bird feeder is ideal for a group craft or anytime you want something quick and easy for the kids to make. You can make it in about 15 minutes minus the glue drying time) and it’s so inexpensive!

Craft Stick Bird Feeder

This is fun to make with your kids or perfect for scout groups, Vacation Bible school, camps, and more.

Supplies needed for each craft stick bird feeder:

• Craft sticks (popsicle sticks) – approximately 40 but it’s always best to have a few extras because sometimes there are a few warped ones in the batch
• one jumbo craft stick (tongue depressor)
• some string or twine to hang the bird feeder up with
• a pair of scissors,
• glue. I found this Turbo Tacky glue from Aleene’s worked great and dried really quickly but any old white glue will do in a pinch.

Easy Step by Step Tutorial for Your Craft Stick Bird Feeder:

Step One:

Lay out 10-12 crafts sticks side by side. They don’t have to be lined up perfectly – just as close as possible without driving yourself crazy!

You want enough to essentially equal the length of a craft stick because you’re going to use a couple of sticks to keep it all together as seen above. 

Step Two:

Now you’re going to start building the “layers” (the sides). You’re creating the layers on the “other side” – not the side where you glued your stabilizing sticks.

You want to put a popsicle stick on each side vertically. And then one on each side horizontally. (It doesn’t matter if you start vertically or horizontally as long as you keep alternating).

Only do one “layer” to start with because we’re going to insert the perch before continuing.

Step Three:

Glue the large craft stick/tongue depressor on and then continue building your layers.

I ended up with 6 sticks on two sides and 7 on the other two. You can continue as high as you want – just be sure it’s deep enough to hold the birdseed but not so deep that the birds will have a hard time reaching it.

Final step: Add some string or twine so you can hang up your bird feeder. I simply tied 4 pieces together in a knot and glued that knot to the bottom of the feeder.

I did one where I used a thinner string (more like fishing line) and glued it within the layers as I built the feeder but that is a bit more complicated and finicky for kids to manage.

There are multiple ways to hang this up and if you want an additional project to do with the kids, a simple macrame hanger for it would be fantastic too.

That’s it! Super simple and fun, right?