kiddo kraft of the month - AUGUST

last week we studied letter B in our mommy school, and the activity i had the girls help me with was making a Buh-Buh-Buh-Bird house. so, if you're game and you've got recyclable containers hanging around like i do, then you can make one too!

the first thing i did was wash some lemonade containers (one for each girl, cause who wants to share?). and i also cut some sides off a milk jug to serve as a little porch roof - cause who wants rain dumping into their house?!

then i spray painted them with some spray paint i had leftover from who-knows-when. thankfully, i had green paint!

i used some sticks to hang them up to dry...haha!

then i cut a hole for the birdie entrance and hot-glued around the edges so it wouldn't scrape/hurt the poor little thing when it goes in and out of its house.

then i hot-glued the porch roofs on. ouch! hot-glue is HOT! (duh!)

then i had the girls help me decorate the bird houses with permanent, nature-colored markers. 

then the girls went out back with their daddy and their birdhouses and some nylon rope and tied the pretty casas onto our back fence (hidden within the potato vines and jasmine vines - how pretty). don't forget to screw the top of the jug back on! ;)

and the bonus lesson was - camouflage!

tada! we recycled some of our waste into winter palaces for some feathered friends. here's hoping that a bird actually lives in one! :)