Bird Seed Cakes

All though we have had a mild winter this year, our feathered friends still have a hard time finding some meals. So I thought it would be fun to make some bird seed cakes for all the little birdies.  I had my adorable granddaughter help me with them. She loves to do "Crafts" with me and I enjoy making them with her.

Here is how you make them: 
You make them with plain gelatin, water and some seeds.  Grown up part : You boil a cup of water and add 1 oz of plain gelatin to the water.  Stir until gelatin is completely dissolved.  Then add 3 cups of regular bird seed to the gelatin water.  Tessa began stirring the seed mixture.  Once it's all mixed you put the seed mix in little molds or caps to use as cake holder.  Then you press some yarn into the cake mold and cover it with more seed. The yarn becomes the loop that you use to hang on to a branch.
Now you wait a few hours for them to set.  Once they set, you just pop them out and hang them outside on a tree or bush and wait for the little birdies to come to eat them.  My cats love to sit at my front window watching the birds fly around and eat.  So it's a treat for the birds and enterrtainment for Daisy and Vera.  :-)

I will have to take a picture once I see some birds eating them.  After the cakes are eatin the birds can use some of the yarn to make a snugly little nest too.