19 Birdhouse Craft Ideas
Decorate your home, indoor and out, with this collection of 19 Birdhouse Craft Ideas. These birdhouse crafts are fun to make and also make low-cost gifts for any occasion. They're a great craft to do with kids or on your own to add a beautiful decoration to your yard. Whether it's a rainy day or a bright, sunny day for crafting outside, you can make birdhouses. There is something so quaint and lovely about making birdhouses! You will find free birdhouse designs for fall, summer and winter in this collection.
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Easy Birdhouses
Use your favorite color scheme to paint a birdhouse in bright and bold colors. Use this easy painting project for gifts or decorating your own home.
This Cheep Coffee Can Birdhouse is cheap to make and perfect for smaller birds to nest in. Plus, if you are looking for a way to teach your kids or grandkids all about nature, this how to make a birdhouse tutorial is perfect.
Instead of sending more plastic to the landfill, turn a plastic bottle into a fun and functional birdfeeder crafted like a birdhouse. This is a great green craft for using the occasional plastic bottle.
Checks and Stripes Painting Technique
Follow this painting technique to create a whimsical design on an inexpensive wood birdhouse. Use your preferred color scheme and use indoors or outdoors with Krylon Indoor/Outdoor paint.
This Junk Store Birdhouse is cheap garden decor you'll be proud to show off! This handmade birdhouse is made with various odds and ends, giving it a unique look and a whimsical feel.
Clay Saucer and Jute Bird Feeder
Make an inexpensive bird feeder or bird bath with a clay pot saucer, jute rope and a grapevine wreath.
This easy birdhouse is airbrushed with color, so it's easy to add stencils and fun designs to this decorative bird house.
Do you have a cute flock of birds in your back yard? Give them something more to chirp about with this Easy DIY Birdhouse that you can make out of an used milk carton!
Floral Birdhouse Crafts
This pretty birdhouse features floral image templates. You can use patterned papers to cover the roof and coordinate with your painted design.
Create a cute home for the birds or make a birdhouse home accent with this easy painting project. Use coordinating scrapbook papers to cover the sides and roof of your painted birdhouse.
Brighten up your home with this beautiful spring bloom birdhouse. Adorned with lovely pink flowers, this decorative craft is a great way to add some springtime color to your home.
Seasonal Birdhouses
This painting project creates a beautiful autumn birdhouse for indoor or outdoor home décor. Words spell out “Have a Happy Fall y’All.” A die-cut autumn leaf creates the central image on the birdhouse. Coordinating scrapbook papers cover sides and roof of birdhouse.
Create your own birdhouse from scratch with a clay pot and foam sheets. This cute little birdhouse hides an air freshener. Covered with garden print fabric and floral ribbon, you can use this birdhouse for spring decorating or any time.
This collection of bird houses inspired by crafting sensation Martha Stewart are great for the summer. They're perfect for indoors and out and all the birds will love coming home to these colorful houses!
Beautiful Blue Birdhouse Display
Bring the look of spring indoors with this Beautiful Blue Birdhouse Display. Instead of making one birdhouse, you can create three small birdhouses and attach them with a chain.
Holiday Birdhouses
Paint colorful Easter eggs and flowers onto a pre-assembled birdhouse for a cute Easter decorating idea. A pattern helps you to create this painted birdhouse easily.
Decorate for the holidays with this unique birdhouse featuring snow texture and a red and green color scheme. Give birds a home for the holidays.
A wood birdhouse becomes a whimsical Halloween decoration with a bit of paint. This is great for an outdoor Halloween gesture. Acrylics and twinkles make this craft shine.
It doesn't matter when you create a For All Seasons Birdhouse. Start working on this project in the winter and display it in the spring or hang it up in your home before the holidays.
Craft Tips & Ideas for Outdoor Use:
If you are going to hang your house outside make sure you use an acrylic paint that is weather resistant.
Water based glues will not hold well outdoors. Use a glue gun or glue like E-6000.
Keep in mind birds like to pick and pull at things so keep your embellishments to a minimum.
I placed my house near the front door. Big mistake! The birds went crazy with the seeds and made a mess. I suggest placing your feeder as far away from your house asossible so you can enjoy them from afar!
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hilarykimbel 51738 12
Feb 21, 2013
What great wooden bird houses!!! I love your unique ideas... Thanks so much for posting!!!
angelica777499 556 9687
Apr 28, 2012
One thing!! Around here we put our bird houses and feeders up very high! Its no good keeping them too low to the ground! Because any stray cats are attracted to the bords eating their food! And they try to kill them! Just a tip here!
jonigirl
Nov 21, 2011
For bigger birdhouses you can go to free patterns .com free woodworking search birdhouses,found a lot there.Helps if you can build these.they are easy to build with a simple jigsaw or scroll saw.Found some on diy and lowes.
Terryn
Mar 31, 2011
It doesnt tell you how big the hole should be. I know different size holes for different birds. Terry N.
LIZARDLADY
Sep 29, 2010
I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW IF ANYONE KNOWS WHERE TO GET THE LARGER BIRD HOUSES LIKE PICTURED. MICHAELS HAS THEM INSTORE BUT NOT ONLINE. NEED TO KNOW GOOD SITES AND STORES. THANKS!!
dragongirl
Jun 05, 2010
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eaglebeak29
May 16, 2010
I would like to send a link to a friend about these birdhouses. Will you have a link added to the site for such a thing. Friend does not utilize the "share" venues. Thank you for your consideration. Lisa...eaglebeak29@yahoo.com
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