Unique Birdhouse Boutique

First came wooden birdhouse kits, followed by wood bird feeder kits and wood bat houses. Now there’s an eco-friendly version of the birdhouse and feeder kits that are guaranteed to last. Helping to keep plastics out of our landfills, they’re fun for the whole family, and provide birds a real nest box to raise their brood. These new kits come with a plush, stuffed animal bird for your little one to learn about bird sounds. Complete with stickers for decorating, it’s recommended for ages 5 and up.

With nesting season gearing up, wooden birdhouse kits or recycled kits are a great way to help feathered friends in your area. Offer up some nesting material to further entice birds to your yard, and a fresh water source like a bird bath…fresh water is the single, best bird attractor out there!

Please help house the birds!

As nesting season gears up, many cavity-dwelling birds will search for decent diggs to raise their young. But the market is tough for them as well, with the ratio of birds to houses being way upside down, and destruction of habitat at an all-time high. You can provide real homes, or nest boxes utilizing wood birdhouse kits.

The kits make for great projects with the kids on a rainy day, church groups, or any youth groups. The kit shown here is a quality, eastern pine version of a window nest box. View the nest and babies from within your home. So these wood birdhouse kits don’t stop with the assembly, they’ll still bring enjoyment year after year to both viewers and feathered friends alike!

Great Projects for Young, Old, & In Between!

What better projects than those of conservation and nature to instill a sense of stewardship in children from ages 5 to 105? Birdhouses, and bird feeders are key ingredients to creating wildlife-friendly habitats that will enrich, encourage, and entertain feathered friends and their people hosts alike.

As urban sprawl gives way to more natural habitats at an alarming rate, so many lessons can be taught through simple projects like wood birdhouse kits.  Whether scouts, school and church groups, or social activities, these kinds of projects help to raise an awareness about our very own immediate environments and how to enhance them. High quality, inexpensive kits are available in feeders, bat houses and may types of bird houses too. It’s easy to create wildlife habitat with proper nesting sites, and help wild birds thrive and flourish in your area.

Wooden Birdhouse kits are available in feeders and bat houses too, and make for  excellent projects with kids of all ages.

Be it church groups, scouts, or even school science curriculum, there’s no better way to teach kids about nature, wildlife, and the world around them.

Thanks to The Cornell Lab of Orinithology’s “NestWatch” and affiliated citizen-science projects, teachers are provided with the tools they need to set up nest box trails at schools, through the “Home Tweet Home” partnership with Nature and PBS. Some schools are even monitoring nests as part of a new NSF-funded initiative called “Communicating Climate Change”, aimed at community projects that seek out local indicators of climate change.  In Ithaca, NY, Dewitt Middle School students monitor nests in wooden birdhouse kits, and record data such as first egg date, a critical piece of information used by researchers to understand how birds are responding to climate change.

For more information on existing cirricula, or after-school and environmental activities, please visit www.nestwatch.org

Looking for an interesting project with kids? For church groups, scout groups, or school activities, there’s no better way for children to learn about nature and conservation.

Bird Feeder and Wood Birdhouse kits can teach kids to actually experience nature, conservation, the great outdoors. Projects like this also allow children to take an active role in improving their environment.

The Cornell Lab of Orinithology’s Nest Watch Program and other Citizen-Science groups provides teachers with the tools necessary to set up Nest Box Trails at schools, through the “Home Tweet Home” partnership with nature and PBS.

Please visit Nestwatch.org for more information.

Great Project Overview for Virtually any Organized Kids’ Group: Doing good in your community!

Birds For Brains How To:
Birds For Brains is such a rewarding program for kids, seniors and coordinators alike (the birds too!). If done right it will not take much funding at all to start and run.

- First Off and Most Importantly the Volunteers- BFB is set up specifically to get kids of any age involved. Daycares, scout groups, 4H, classrooms or any group with kids at any age (or if you just have one child that you would like to get accustomed to doing good for the community.) At least one adult to plan and implement the program is needed or a group of adults such as an Audubon Chapter to oversee the children.

- The Site- The easiest step is to find a place to visit and set up the bird feeders. Nursing or Assisted Living Homes, a retirement home or a single family home with a senior or disabled individual are in every neighborhood and will welcome the program and the enrichment that comes with it.

- Bird Feeders- Many ways to keep the costs down, BFB was initially set up to recycle wood from discarded fence panels or scrap that can be found around town. This idea was thought of not only to recycle and help the environment but also to have another hands on activity for the youth. Any fencing or construction company can direct you to scrap wood that could be used and Google is great to find Do-it-yourself plans to build the feeders.

We have not yet built any feeders for the program because once word got out about the program donations of feeders were given. We immediatley received a couple from the local Audubon Society Chapter and then as we approached Critters Feed and Seed to fill the feeders they to donated many feeders, not to mention the Birdhouse Chick donating 2 large rainbow finch feeders.

- Seed- If you live in a larger community you have a feed store in the area that you can approach. This is great on so many areas, you are starting a relationship with a local company and shopping local (rather than the big box stores), the seed will be of the best quality, and the relationship you start will help the local seed store by spreading the word that they have helped a good cause out and hopefully will attract new business.

Critters Feed and Seed in Moorhead, MN has been a wonderful partner and I cannot thank them enough!! When possible they get ‘sweepings’ from their seed supplier that would otherwise go to waste. This causes some additional work for the supplier and the vendor but when they hear that the seed is going to the Birds For Brains program they will be happy to offer the help. I have to mention that at times ‘sweepings’ are not available and Critters has been more than kind to donate seed off the shelf!

If you do not have a seed store contact a grain elevator, local pet store or any location that offers bird seed. Make sure you explain where the seed is going and the Mission of BFB.

- Visiting the Site- We ask that you stop by once a week or at the very least every other week to fill the feeders, clean the bird baths and spend some time visiting and interacting with the residents. Make sure that the activities coordinator knows when you will be there. Get involved and play games do activities or just visit.

This may be too much of a committment for some, so get a couple families or groups together and take turns at the site. If you have a few get together a once a month committment won’t be any trouble, but most kids that get involved will probably want to do it more often

Bird Feeder and Birdhouse Kits are also an inexpensive option for starting a site in your area.

For more information, please visit 3littlebirdsonline.com website.

This is the Totally Green Birdhouse kit and it’s made from 100% recycled paper, that has been laminated into a strong board!

Like traditional wooden birdhouse kits, it attracts wrens, tufted titmice, chickadees and nuthatches. The airy and innovative weatherproof design is totally biodegradable after the nesting season.

It’s fun to assemble, by folding two die-cut pieces of board that fit together ingeniously. Then kids and/or playful adults get to paint and decorate the bird house any way they want. You can be creative, and provide wild birds a much needed nesting site, and shelter at the same time.

Bat House Kit

Looking for a fun summer project to do with the kids?  Birdhouse kits fit the bill perfectly, as once the project is complete, you actually have a useful, functional item that will last for years.  Wood birdhouse kits are available in more than just houses too.  Bat houses can easily be constructed, and teach kids about the tiny creatures as well.  Why do so many folks erect bat houses in their yards?  One of the main reasons is natural mosquito control…it works great.  The wonders of nature, no chemicals needed.

Bird Feeder Kit

The kits are also available in bird feeders.  Easily constructed, great family project that leaves you with a functional, useful item to last for years.  If kids are introduced to the wonderful world of birds, they may actually enjoy the hobby, and learn so much about nature.  Stewardship of our planet is more important today than ever before…help feed the birds!

So nesting season is here, and you’ve decided on creating a home for wild birds in your yard.  Wooden birdhouse kits are an excellent way to do just that.  They are proportioned correctly for the kinds of cavity nesters you’d like to attact.  There are specific bluebird house kits and wren house kits, as well as others.

You can better your chances of actually hosting a family of fledglings by hanging nesting material nearby.  This will further entice your feathered friends to nest here.  Many commercial nesting materials are available, fashioned in wreaths, balls, and baskets.  Strings and yarn are always good choices, as is hair, and even dryer lint!  I recently placed some horse hair (from the tail and mane) into a mesh bag and hung it from a tree.  The birds love it, and have pulled it every which way!  Now i just need to figure out which houses are hosting what birds!

With the nesting season approching for many wild birds, real estate is harder to come by.  Cavity nesting birds must work harder to find suitable housing to nest and raise their brood.  Birdhouse kits are a wonderful way to fulfill this need and more.  They are great projects for kids’ church or school groups, and family projects too.

These kits have come a long way, and today there are more than just the standard wood birdhouse kits available.  Many recycled birdhouse and bird feeder kits are being seen.  These are made of poly lumber-or recycled plastics and last much longer, with no rotting or splitting.  A one time purchase to last many nesting seasons for wild birds.  Plus the fun activity of creating the house instills a sense of stewardship with children.