Molasses Bird Feeder

J-Man came home from Joy School today with three pinecones.

He wanted to make bird feeders out of them.

He is severely allergic to Peanut Butter so after doing some research,

I found that we could make it with molasses

Here is our Molasses Bird Feeder process:

Three pinecones strung with shoe laces in a square knot

Trail Mix

Trail mix blended up in the blender

Molasses, I usually only use this for gingerbread cookies at Christmas

Pour the molasses in a plastic cup,

dip pinecone in molasses until coated.

let excess molasses drip off.

cover with trail mix crumbs

set aside to dry

J-Man wants to try

it is pretty sticky

Pretzel Necklace Bird Feeder

Thread pretzels on a shoe lace

Place on a plate

pour molasses over the pretzels

sprinkle trail mix crumbs over the top.

Turn over and sprinkle again until covered in crumbs

we went outside to hang up the bird feeders and found

a humming bird nest  with a humming bird inside in our palo verde tree

The humming bird just froze in place as I took a close up shot

We placed all the bird feeders on the tree and came inside

we went to look outside and the hummingbird left its nest

to fly around the pinecone bird feeder

Success!

J-Man was sooooo excited, he said "We make a good team"

He is so sweet, I love him.