Christmas Wreaths for the Birds

Christmas wreaths rival Christmas trees as the twoString a few popped kernels of popcorn together then
most popular Christmas decorations. Most wreathsroll them in peanut butter and birdseed, a treat loved
are hung as a holiday greeting and welcome toby blue jays. Take a large needle and string clusters of
neighbors and friends on the main entry door of thethree or four whole, raw, unsalted peanuts in the shell
house appearing soon after the pumpkins and cornand tie to the wreath. Make sure you use a natural
stalks of the fall harvest season have been removed.thread like raffia. You can do the same thing with
Decorations for Christmas wreaths vary from thebundles of fresh grapes. Slice apples, pears or oranges
traditional - pinecones, red berries, deer moss to uniqueand hang them on the wreath. It's best to leave the
decorations like small handmade crafts made fromstrings of peanuts, or fruit short, a couple inches long at
fabric.most, so they are easy for the birds to handle.
Bird lovers like to decorate their Christmas wreathsTransforming your Christmas wreath into a wonderful
with their favorite small stuffed birds surrounded withsource of food for your birds also provides you with
holly berries that birds love. Christmas wreaths can bethe wonderful pastime of watching the birds as you sit
made just for the birds or you can recycle yourand enjoy your morning coffee. It's a fun activity to
Christmas wreath after the season and provide theshare with the children in your life. Teach them the
birds with needed food during the cold winter months.value of recycling, the wonders of nature right outside
If you take your wreath down in January or Februarythe door and the joy of watching birds.
you can transform it into a wreath just for the birds.Once the birds have eaten everything on the
Roll the pinecones first in peanut butter and then inChristmas wreath you can always put more goodies
birdseed. Wrap some floral wire around the base ofon or if it's a balsam fir Christmas wreath, you can
each pinecone and attach it to the wreath. If you haverecycle the balsam needles. Make a fragrant draft
purchased a Christmas wreath from a company like,stopper by sewing the balsam needles into a long
Acadia Wreath Company, the pinecones already havemuslin bag or make a balsam sachet.
picks on the base to attach to the wreath.