I don't usually like to brag, but in this case I will just a little.
To be honest, last week, I wasn't all that confident that I would be able to complete this project. Well, I figured that I would complete it but maybe not be that happy with the final result. But as it turns out I am quite pleased with my little bird feeder but we will have to give the birds the final say.
So now where were we? Well we started over here in part one.
Which brings us to here. The glue should be dry by now so go ahead and remove the tape.
Materials and Tools
1 Plastic Container Lid (cottage cheese, sour cream I used a Parmesan cheese lid)
16-20 bottle caps
Spray paint and primer (I decided on a metallic theme because that is the color I had)
Low gauge wire (For decoration use whatever you want here. The wire worked with my metallic theme.)
A pillar or stand (I had a metal thing not even sure what it was but you could use a candle holder, an old wine glass or goblet or maybe even a wine bottle)
Scissors
E600 Glue
Oh and of course bird seed
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Step 13 - Take the plastic lid and trim the lip off.
Step 14 - Glue the bottle caps around the edge of the plastic lid. They should overhang the edge but still allow the bottle with the tin lid to sit on top of the bottle caps. Allow glue to dry.
Step 15 - Spray paint the bottle top and the bottle cap piece with a primer coat.
Step 16 - Spray again with top coat color.
Step 16 - Wrap wire around the bottle neck and secure.
Step 17 - Glue four more bottle caps in the center of the plastic lid to support the bottle.
Step 17 - Glue the two piece together. Allow to dry.
Step 17 - Glue wire loop to back of decorative bottle cap and hang over bottle neck.
Step 18 - Glue plastic bottle and bottle caps to the base or stand. Mine was a little tricky since I didn't have a lot of contact points to glue but it seems to be pretty secure.
My base looks like this:
Or maybe it was supposed to look like this.
Anyway I liked it like this.
Step 19 - Fill with bird seed.
Step 20 - Put feeder outside. Wait and see what happens.
Happy Upcycling!!