I took an empty coffee can, painted it orange then sponged another layer of a different shade of orange to look like stripes on the body. The face was cut out of wood scrap with a hole cut out for the mouth and then I stapled the plastic lid to the wood. I painted a face to match the body. I used L-brackets to attach a string to the top to hang the bird house.
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I love this! It is very creative and gave me a good laugh!
This is very cute and creative and would be wonderful just for decoration. I, too, love wild birds and have read articles on different types of houses for them. Warnings are given against using any type of metal, such as a coffee can, for an actual bird house. The heat builds up to deadly levels inside and the baby birds usually suffer and even die - poor mama and papa bird don't know this when they build their nests :-( Maybe you could plug up the hole and just keep it for decoration and find something made of wood or basket material for an actual bird house.
How cute! I may try this myself!
Absolutely love your clever idea, made me chuckle too, a cat`s mouth for the birds, how cute. Bet you could make more and sell them as well. Linda Jonson
This was a great post. I kept saving all my coffee cans, because really I'm a pack rat. I hate to dispose of anything. I saw this and pulled out my cans made 2 yesterday; one is a fall bird feeder painted it in fall colors then I glued fall colored leaves and a gold trim ribbon, finished with a protective coat.
congratulations on winning!!!!!!!!!!
Is the can metal? If so please keep it out of the sun, metal can get very hot. Love the tiger face!
Marg from England.
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