Birdseed Biscuits

I found a fun recipe for these cute Birdseed Biscuits in my February addition of Family Fun Magazine (which always has fun ideas in it, by the way). So I thought we'd try to make them and hang them on this cute little tree we have outside.

We invited Jen, Berkleigh and Merrick to come over for the festivities, because it's always more fun to do kid crafts with more than one kid, and more than one adult! And, rather than doing a 'heart' biscuit, we borrowed our neighbor, Kristy's alphabet-shaped cookie cutters so we could spell their names (quite a feat for B &M, by the way). Plus...I didn't have a heart-shaped cookie cutter...

Anyways, so we got to work mixing up the nasty mixture, that both boys snacked on, oops...sick-nast! And we got to work stuffing the mix into the letters.

We stuffed straws in them, as we were told to do, and put them in the oven for an hour.

The kids had a pow-wow in front of the oven for a while to watch them cook

We took them out of the oven, let them cool, and then attempted to take the little birdie cookies out of the letters...but so sad, they crumbled apart. So, no harm done, we punctured some cups, wrote the kids names on them, and dumped the cumbled pieces of letter into the cups.

The kids carefully took them out to the little tree...
We hung up our cups and had a shake-the-tree party... So fun!!!

Don't be discouraged by our poor attempt at doing this project...we decided that the letter idea wasn't a good idea because it made the area around the hole too weak...I'm sure that if we'd had heart cookie cutters, it would have been great.. So, if you want the recipe, it's:

Mix together:

3/4 cup of birdseed

1 Tbsp flour

2 Tbsp water

Spray or wipe oil and place it on a foil-covered cookie sheet. Pack the mixture into the cutter, inserting half a straw into the top to create a hole for hanging. Bake biscuit (with the straw) in a 170 degree oven for one hour. Let it cool. Remove the straw, thread a ribbon through the hole and hang it outside in a sheltered spot.

Try it and tell me if your HEART works!

Thanks for coming over Jen and Merrick and Berkleigh....we love to have you over to play!

PS, all you foul-weathered friends...aren't you jealous that we had a picnic outside today for lunch, and that our little tree is already showing spring blossoms...come over!!!