Disney Crafts: Mickey Mouse Bird Feeder

photo credit: Disney Family

photo credit: Disney Family

There is nothing like working together on a fun and easy craft with your family. It’s even more magical when the craft is Mickey-shaped! To celebrate Earth Day, let’s add a little Disney magic to your backyard with a bird feeder shaped like Mickey Mouse. Imagine the look on your little Mouseketeer’s faces when they look out the window and see all of the feathered friends visiting. This simple project will help add a little Disney magic to your home.

What You’ll Need

4 cups mixed birdseed
3/4 cup all purpose flour
1/2 cup water
3 tablespoons corn syrup
1 packet of plain gelatin
Wax paper
Cookie cutters
Twine or yarn
Straw
Scissors

How To Make It

Combine birdseed, flour, water, gelatin, and corn syrup in a mixing bowl.
Using a spoon, pack the birdseed mixture into the cookie cutters.
Use a straw to poke a hole at the top of the bird feeder. Leave straw in mixture until dry.
Let dry, preferably overnight. Remove straw. (If the mixture is still wet, you may bake in the oven on the lowest setting for an hour or so.)
Thread twine or yarn through bird feeder and hang outside for the birds!

If you do not have a Mickey Mouse cookie cutter, you can easily shape Mickey Mouse yourself by combining 3 circular shapes. You can still follow the same steps with any cookie cutter shapes you do have.

What other Disney homemade crafts or Earth Day activities have you done with your family?

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Tags: crafts, disney crafts, disney family, diy, mickey mouse

Karen Stoner

Karen is the owner and lead Dream Designer at My Mickey Vacation Travel. She is now in her 10th year of planning vacations to Disney destinations, as well as other vacation experiences. She leads her team of 80 Dream Designers and credits them with the overall success of the agency, and is especially proud of the PLATINUM Authorized Disney Vacation Planner designation that the company has earned.