Floppy Disk Bird Feeder

by stranoster in Outside > Birding

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Floppy Disk Bird Feeder

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Make a bird-feeder using only 3 Floppy Disks, 12 Floppy Disk Labels (Or masking tape), Hot Glue and String.

Sorry this is so simplistic and has such terrible accompanying photos, I will edit it later.

What You Need:

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~ Three floppy disks

~ Twelve floppy disk labels, or sticky tape (wide)

~ String

~ Hot Glue (Not strictly necessary if you like the look of it with tape. If I had used labels I wouldn't have used it except for attaching the string.).

~ Scissors

Stick the Floppies.

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Put sticky tape or the disk labels around both edges of the bottom of the disk equally.

Preparing the Disk

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Pry off the sliding metal bit on top of the disk and then carefully pry it apart on the top 3 sides.
Take the cotton off of the disk surface and then keep it for nesting material as well as the plastic disk in the middle for another project.

Cut a Door

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Cut a door in one of your disk sides like illustrated in the picture.

Put Your Piece Together.

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Assemble the bird feeder by taping the walls together or you could choose to glue it.

To Use Glue

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Untape each section and hot glue the connections to the disks touching it.

Attach a String

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Just grab some hot glue and glue the string to the top.

Pack Your Box

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Put the cotton in the feeder from the disks and then maybe a little seed and hang in the garden somewhere.