How to make a birdhouse with recycled materials

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If you are wondering how to make a bird house with recycled materials easily and cheaply, here we propose you to make this birdhouse from the photo, one of the easy and quick crafts for children that we have done in these days of confinement by Covid . Ready to do your crafts?

How to make a birdhouse easy with recycled materials step by step

The necessary materials

The materials to make this recycled bird house:

Empty milk carton
Adhesive bodybuilder tape (that of painting walls)
Whasitape (colored tape) or electrical tape or any colored tape you have
Cardboard from a box or container to recycle that you have to make the roof
Wood or other wooden or plastic material that you have to cover the roof
Scissors
Hot silicone gun and silicone sticks (but with white glue you will also manage)
White carpenter's glue or if you don't have it you can make it at home. Here is the recipe for making homemade white glue: How to make the best homemade glue for the family step by step!

The process

In the following section we detail step by step how to make an easy birdhouse for your garden or terrace, or simply to decorate at home. A home for birds, a birdhouse with recycled materials that we all have at home.

Video tutorial on how to make an easy birdhouse

The step by step of how to make an easy birdhouse

Step 1: Cut the circle of the door of the house

Draw a circle in the center of the empty milk carton. Make an incision with a punch or cutter and just cut the circle with the scissors.

You already have the entrance to the house for the little birds!

Step 2: Paste the whasitape or decorative adhesive tape you have

If you are going to decorate your bird house with whasitape, before putting it on, put on masking tape. The bodybuilder tape will give the whasitape more adherence and will cover the strong colors of the milk carton.

If you don't have whasitape but you do have electrical tape or bodybuilder's tape or another colored adhesive tape, stick this tape to your liking directly.

And if you do not have adhesive tapes, paint it with acrylic paints or paste drawings, cutouts of cloth or magazines or whatever you want! Imagination to the power!

Step 3: make the roof

With the scissors we cut the top of the container making the shape of the photo and then we can place the roof.

From a box or cardboard that we have at home we cut a rectangle that when folded in half stands out well and makes us a roof.

With white carpenter glue or the homemade glue made by us (How to make the best homemade glue for the family step by step! ) We stick wood or other material that you have at home that is plastic or wood so that it resists better outdoors. You can even cut the cardboard from another tetrabrik and hook it as a waterproof roof.

Finally with hot silicone or white glue we glue the roof to the house by the edges.