12/12/2023 0 Comments Make a butterfly feeder![]() ![]() The cotton ball will fill up with the sugar water and the butterflies can drink it. To make the butterfly food, you just mix 1 tsp of sugar or honey with 1/4 cup of water and put it in your butterfly feeder. That was really difficult so, I ripped up the cotton ball and glued it around the hole, being sure to cover the hole with the cotton, but not the hot glue.įinally, use the hole punch to cut out the sides of your container so you can tie your string on it and hang it in a tree or bush. The project that I saw in a magazine had you poke a cotton ball through the hole in the bottom. Next prick a hole in the bottom of your container in the middle of your flower petals with a pin or needle. If you don’t have a fake flower, you can cut a colored plastic bag into petal shapes and glue those on. Then glue the fake flowers in a circle on the bottom of your plastic container to make it look like a flower, leaving space in the middle for where the pollen of a real flower would be. To make this simple science project, you’ll need a plastic container (I used the bottom of a plastic bottle), glue gun, fake flowers or colored plastic bag, a cotton ball, a pin or needle, a hole punch, and some string.įirst, warm up your glue gun. I saw a project like this in a magazine, but it just wasn’t working the way they showed how to do it. So, here it is! How to make a butterfly feeder from a plastic container. My daughter prompted me to make this feeder, well begged me. ![]()
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