Homemade Hummingbird Feeder

It's a little early for hummingbirds to start showing up in our neck of the woods, but we thought it might not be a bad idea to be ready with a feeder, for their arrival.

Commercially made hummingbird feeders aren't overly expensive, so I imagine we'll pick one up, once we get a chance, but in the meantime, we have a homemade model standing by.

It was easy enough to make. We followed direction from this YouTube video (click the link to go to the video), that called for an empty soda bottle, an empty plastic tub, with a snap on lid, and scissors, nails, hole punches, and such for making holes in the lids. We also added a plastic tie wrap, and twine for hanging.

First, we traced the bottle cap on our plastic tub lid...

...and cut out a hole...

...big enough to slip over the neck of the bottle.

We used the hole punch to add four, small feeding holes to the lid.

And, we punched a hole in the bottle cap, with a hammer, and nail (over a cutting board).

Finally, we secured the tie clip, near the bottom of the pop bottle (we used a Coke Zero bottle, that had a good shape for hooking the tie clip around), and tied our twine to it.

Then, all that was left was to fill the bottle with a solution of 4 parts water (boiled and cooled), to one part sugar, and place on our tub lid...

...screw on the pop bottle cap...

...snap on the tub...

...and flip the whole thing over, ready to hang...

...and we are good to go, in case an early bird arrives, before we make it to the store for a more official (and Man of the House accepted) feeder.

It's great to be a homeschooler.