Building a bird feeder house

Build a personalised feeding station for bird lovers. Ideal as a gift or as an eye-catcher on the balcony or in the garden. With a little bit of skill, this cult feeding station can be copied and decorates your garden. The birds will thank you for it - and the presentee anyway!

How to build the great bird house:

First print out the templates, cut them out and transfer them to the wood with a pencil.

Use the Dremel Moto Saw or other scroll saw to cut out the transferred areas and sand with a grinder/polisher such as the Dremel Stylo. Saw off 2x pieces of approx. 13cm long from the square bar and paint them with handicraft paint. In our example we have used the colour pastel olive green.

Prime the back wall with white craft paint so that the photo can be seen better later. Print any photo mirror-inverted with a laser printer. Coat your printout with Photo Transfer Potch and stick it on the back wall. After drying, rub off the paper with a damp sponge and let it dry through. Then brush it with Triple Gloss.

If you would like to paint a saying on the roof, write a text with a pencil and draw it with the fire painting. You can also write the saying with a computer and transfer it to the wood with graphite paper.

Place the stencil on the roof with the help of spray glue and stencil the motifs with a brush and handicraft paint.

Would you also like a floor that looks like a wooden floor? Then lightly flame the floor of the feed house with a Bunsen burner and draw lines on it with the fire painting for the look of the individual boards. Then brush with Triple Gloss.

The individual parts are now glued together with UHU Max Repair Universal. The Max Repair is powerful and durable, transparent, waterproof, UV-resistant, joint-filling, flexible, resistant to vibrations and shocks and temperature resistant from - 40°C to + 120°C. Ideal for our feed house. The adhesive can be re-corrected within 15 minutes and is firmly dried after approx. 24 hours.

Screw an eyelet into each side of the roof and apply a jute tape.

Now one saucer can be filled with water and the other with food and placed in the feed house.