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Super easy and super affordable! Birdseed Ornaments make a great gift for bird watchers or gardeners. Easy enough to make with your children, they will love giving them to grandparents, teachers or bus drivers. Or just make up a batch for your own backyard birds! The sky is the limit with shapes you can make using cookie cutters, tin molds or even a Bundt pan for a big birdseed wreath.
Materials (this was enough to fill these 5 large cookie cutters):
3 cups birdseed (try one with a variety of colors & shapes for the prettiest ornaments)
1 cup water
4 envelopes Knox gelatine
cookie cutters or mold
baking sheet
wax or parchment paper
twine
Directions
Mix water & gelatine in a medium saucepan, bring to a low boil
Remove from heat
Add birdseed and stir to coat. If there is still liquid in the pan, add a little extra birdseed until it is all absorbed.
Put your cookie cutters on wax paper on top of a baking sheet. Fill about halfway with birdseed mixture (be careful, mixture will be hot!)
Knot a length of twine and put it in the mold. Fill the cookie cutters to the top, being sure to secure the twine in the birdseed.
Put a sheet of wax or parchment paper over the filled cookie cutters, press to pack seed tightly
Pop the baking sheet & molds in the freezer for about an hour
Allow them to sit in the molds for about 24 hours. Remove from molds and hang outside or wrap for gift giving!
