Storybook Birdhouses

Tis the season!

I spent the morning making these storybook birdhouses.  The project can be found in my parties book,Simply Green Parties.

I headed to my local craft store and picked up some unfinished bird houses for about $4 each.    Then I headed to my local Goodwill store, where I first dropped off some donations and then I headed inside to the book section to pick up vintage books.    I'm amazed at how many old and wonderful things can be found at Goodwill; I found vintage Danny & The Dinosaur books along with many others for very little money.

Anyway, this project couldn't be any simpler: just decoupage pages all over the birdhouse (I chose a high gloss finish glue) and glue the book's jacket onto the roof.  Voila!   Storybook birdhouse.

Made five of them in about an hour.  Not bad!

Comments

[Sasha]

Those are so cute! They are a decorative object, right:? Not really for using outdoors?

[ranaeluvsewes]

Sooo adorable you ae so inspiring
RaNae

[Mattias Adolfsson]

very pretty, every bird would be happy in them

[Florence Nishida]

Great idea - colorful look - would probably be attractive to birds.

Wonderful school project, esp. just before start of spring, when birds are starting to look for nesting places.

Are this pre-made birdhouses strong enough to hold a real nest and bird activity though? If not, would be a shame because they could fall to the ground.

Florence Nishida