Unusual bird houses. How to make a birdhouse for birds with your own hands: from plywood and improvised materials

Birdhouses are special houses for birds that adults and children make with their own hands. Previously, birds independently found a place to live, but today many summer residents and wildlife lovers make feeders and birdhouses from improvised materials. If you want birds to settle in your summer cottage, try to do it yourself creative houses and attach them to trees. Birdhouses are a real salvation for city birds, because in big cities there are practically no hollow trees left.

What to make a birdhouse

The bird house should be suitable for a certain type of birds, be comfortable and environmentally friendly. If you decide to build a birdhouse on your own site, then consider landscape design. Wood is most often used as materials, since materials such as fiberboard, chipboard or thick cardboard do not tolerate moisture and the effects of precipitation. However, they can be used to make seasonal houses. Also, such houses can be installed in corners protected from wind and rain.

Birdhouse drawing

In a similar way, a birdhouse is made of plywood. First, decide on the drawing and dimensions of the birdhouse. Make a marking of all parts on the material. All parts should be of such a size that the bottom is the largest. Don't forget to leave corrections. All sections are ground, and then the parts are glued and fastened with self-tapping screws. Screw the bottom with screws, and the roof so that it is removable. In the future, it will be necessary to carry out general cleaning in the birdhouse.

Creative birdhouse made of cardboard

Start building your bird house by sketching. Carefully cut out all the details and connect with wood glue. You can protect the birdhouse from moisture by varnishing it. To make the house original, decorate it with acrylic paints with the children. Such a birdhouse will definitely last the season and will appeal to small birds.

It's even easier to make a cardboard birdhouse out of a box. Pick up a suitable cardboard box, make a hole in it, figure out how to fix the roof. Since the cardboard is light, before gluing the parts, consider mounting the treehouse. It remains only to decorate and the birdhouse is ready.

Birdhouses made from plastic bottles

Outside, the bottle can be wrapped with twine. Inside the house you need to insulate and give it extra comfort with yarn or sisal. If you want to be creative, then try decorating the craft with acrylic paints. It remains to come up with devices on how to hang a birdhouse from a bottle so that it does not sway much from the wind.

Birdhouse ideas from improvised materials

After your birdhouse from improvised materials is ready, it's time to figure out how to fix it to a tree. To easily hang a birdhouse, a special bar is attached to its back side.

You can hang with a wire, but try to hang it either evenly or with a slight inclination forward.

creative birdhouse

Together with the children, you can make different birdhouses and look forward to the settlement of birds in your garden.

craft: Cardboard house

I suggest you take a look at my master class.

This master class is designed for children in grades 5-7 and creative people. All materials for manufacturing can be found in any home. The house is made of thick cardboard, pasted over with interlining and painted with yellow color, decorated with flowers and grass, the roof of the house is pasted over with dermantine.

Target: teach the technology of making a house, develop a plot idea.

A beautiful house will serve as a decoration in your winter garden or garden plot. A little free time and only the desire to create will not prevent you from making such a craft.

To create such a wonderful cardboard craft "Bird House", we will need the following materials:

1. Thick cardboard

2. PVA glue

3. TITAN WILD glue

4. Scissors

5. Simple pencil

6. Velvet paper

7. Fluorescent paper

8. Color paste universal yellow

9. Water based paint

10. Tassel

12. Interlining

13. Dermantine

We make a template: a 15.5 cm x 29.5 cm rectangle for the roof and two 14 cm x 14 cm squares for the sides of the house.

We take the templates of the house, transfer it with a simple pencil to thick cardboard and cut out the details of the house.

Now we begin to assemble the house, glue all the details with TITAN WILD glue (you can use another glue, I had one).

From non-woven fabric, we cut out the details of the house according to the templates and begin to glue it with PVA glue. We start gluing from the sides in turn: first, the right side was smeared and the interlining was glued, the allowances were taken to the front and back sides of the house, and we will do the same with the left side of the house. We will do this work with the front and back sides of the house (details without allowances).

After the house has dried, cut out the window of the house. Now let's start painting the house. We dilute the color scheme with water-based paint and a little PVA glue and with the help of a sponge we begin to paint over our house.

The next step is the decorating step. We cut out flowers, grass, petals, butterflies from fluorescent paper according to patterns from velvet paper (you can use non-loose fabric).

Let's start at the front of the house. We glue curly grass, then petals with flowers, and finally - grass.

On the side of the house we glue the grass, flowers along the grass and a butterfly in the middle of the side of the house, the same work must be done with the other side of the house. On the back side - first glue the grass, and the flowers scattered and along the grass.

Then we proceed to the manufacture of the roof. Paste the roof detail with dermantine.

In this article, we will make birdhouses with our own hands - correct, beautiful (simple and unusual) bird houses. I decided to decompose this theme of birdhouses into clear points, so it will be more convenient to navigate through the article. And before I give specific drawings and schemes for assembling birdhouses, and tell you how to make a birdhouse, we will talk about important things– the location and method of fixing your bird house. After all, the model of the house still depends on what methods of fastening you have available, and on whether you will mount your birdhouse on a tree or on special tall structures. And further… before moving on to choosing the design of your future birdhouse, we will deal with the most common mistakes in the manufacture of birdhouses (in order to avoid them in our DIY house). So here you will find answers to the following questions:

1. How to fix birdhouses on a tree (types of fasteners for bird houses)
2. Where can birdhouses be fixed ( if there are no trees nearby).
3. Major Mistakes when building a bird house.
4. How to help the birds choose your birdhouse.
5. Drawing and assembly diagram classic birdhouse.
6. multi-local, multi-apartment
7. bird houses non-standard forms.
8. birdhouses from non-traditional materials(from boots, canisters, teapots, pots, etc.)

Even more ideas and tips on how to make birdhouses in the article.

After studying this article, you can make a birdhouse yourself for a kindergarten or school competition. Or buy a ready-made set of blanks for a birdhouse- assemble it and decorate according to your author's design.

How to fix a birdhouse

on a tree.

Birdhouses are usually tied to a tree with a rope. To do this, a thick long beam is nailed to the back wall of the house. It is leaned against a tree and wrapped around with a rope many times - wrapping the timber and the tree trunk at the same time.

But in the west, birdhouses are often nailed to a tree (harder to tie, easier to nail, although cruel to an adult tree). To do this, the back wall of the birdhouse is made a little higher in height - so that there is a ledge of the board on top where nails can be driven in.

In the same way, this upper ledge of the rear wall can be made even longer. Long enough to drill a hole in it and hang it on a rope, or an iron hook as in the photo below.

And you can also drive a hook into the roof of the house and hang a birdhouse on a chain or rope on it on a thick and strong tree branch in your country house.

SUPPORT FOR BIRDHOUSE.

In addition to wood, any tall structure made from improvised materials can serve as a support for a birdhouse. It can be a large branch cut from an apple tree. It can be dug into the ground. But it should be understood that on such a support, birdhouses will be too low above the ground, and it will be easy for cats to get to the house (this will alarm the bird). Such a support model is good in cases where there are no cats in the area and you have a quiet nook in the courtyard where even your “human foot” almost never steps.

Therefore, in order to maintain a sense of bird safety, it is necessary to make high support structures for wooden birdhouses. For example, such as in the photo of bird houses below.

Also, the original portal in the form of a pergola can serve as a support-pedestal for the birdhouse. But also for places with infrequent traffic. If people roam back and forth through this portal, the birds will not want to settle. It is better to put such a pergola in a quiet corner of your garden and not often go there. The birds will appreciate the solitude and the wilderness and will choose this place for the safe hatching of their offspring.

But in the photo below we see that the holders for simple wooden birdhouses can be very different from beams with decorative carpentry to ordinary old garden pitchforks stuck into the rammed earth.

Also, a pillar-support for your new do-it-yourself birdhouse can be interestingly decorated with fresh flowers. If you plant a climbing plant near the pole, or hang flower pots as in the photo with birdhouses below.

MAJOR ERRORS

in bird houses.

Very often you can see INCORRECT birdhouses made with mistakes. Such beautiful painted bird houses are certainly cute and beautiful, but the birds do not want to settle in them. And the houses just hang empty on a tree - purely for decorative purposes.

Let me tell you what mistakes the masters make in the manufacture of birdhouses. So that the birdhouse made by your hands is not only beautiful, but also initially correct. Then your homemade birdhouse will please the birds at first sight.

ERROR #1

entry hole too low.

The window-door in the birdhouse should be located at a height of at least 30-40 cm. This height is needed so that the bird has the opportunity to create a nest at the bottom of the house.

By the way, the photo above is an example of another fastener - a metal U-shaped bracket is nailed to the roof of the birdhouse (like an eye for latches).

Look, on the transparent birdhouses from the photo below, we just see that the bird is dragging more branches into the house. And if the window is low, the branches will block the exit from the house and it will be impossible for the bird to get out of it. And the bird itself does not want to sit in the nest, where its head will be at the level with the window, so it will be anxious. It is much safer if the window is high - and the wind does not blow on wet fledglings, and the mother bird feels safe.

By the way, the photo above shows the original birdhouse model, the back wall of which is made of glass with suction cups. Such a house is attached to a window in a large house and you can watch the birds settle in the nest. You just need to comply with the condition - the window. In the place of the window glass where you plan to mount such a birdhouse on suction cups, you must first seal it with a tint film - so that the birds do not suspect third-party observation.

ERROR #2

hole too big.

Starlings will not settle in a house where the door is large enough for the cat's head. Cats love to climb trees looking for the nests of defenseless chicks. And such a house with a large hole is an easy prey for them.

The small hole in the birdhouse is not in vain invented. The cat's head and paw should not fit into the hole, but starlings and other birds should easily climb inside. Therefore, when you make a birdhouse with your own hands, make a small hole in it.

Only if you live near a forest belt and make houses for owls flying in the vicinity - then a large hole will certainly be appropriate.

ERROR #3

BRIGHT COLORING of a house for birds.

If you do not live in a blooming jungle, and if the house you have conceived is not designed for parrots with bright plumage, you do not need to paint it in bright colors. Birds trust only natural colors and natural materials. It is good to use such a birdhouse as a designer piece for your living room or work for a competition in a school or kindergarten. But the birds will not live in it.

Mossy aged houses are much nicer for feathered mothers than glossy glamorous smoothly planed apartments.

And if you want your bird house to be original and beautiful, then you should know that you can make a decorative glamorous design in natural shades. Here in the photo below is just an example of such a house, which at the same time looks chic from the aesthetic-human side and does not scare away birds with bright colors at all.

But the cutest houses for the feathered heart are dwellings, as much as possible disguised as an ordinary hollow on the tree. After all, initially starlings settled in hollows. From time immemorial it has been so - it is inherent in their bird genes: to look for a hollow. So make them an artificial hollow from unhewn bark slab boards(sold as firewood).

Or your house made of planed boards, take it and additionally decorate under a living hollow- wrap (or glue) it with branches, branches and pieces of bark.

Birds love houses made of unplanned wood, with elements of bark and rough branches.

ERROR #4

No slats for birds.

It is inconvenient for birds to climb the smooth boards of a wooden house. It's hard for them, their little claws slip off.

This is especially important for the INSIDE SIDE of the birdhouse walls. It is better to stick the inner front wall with small ladders (so that inside the bird can climb them to the exit window).

Or nail a piece of bark to the inner wall of the birdhouse, or an old grater, in short, any ribbed and rough surface. Or place a short sloping board inside the birdhouse (from the bottom to the window) - so that the bird can climb up this hill to the exit from the house.

And also if your birdhouse is made of a smooth planed board on the outside, make sure that the bird has a footstool.

These can be simple branches or branches that you cut while pruning apple trees in the garden.

It can be river pebbles glued on hot glue from a glue gun. Or, instead of a pebble, you can stick log cabins of branches (cut them into round-saw cuts and glue the house over).

Any old, rusty thing from the barn will work as a footrest for birds - a door hinge, a valve from a water pipe, a faucet, a reel from an old fishing rod, a rake, an aluminum fork, a key. Anything can become a perch stand in a do-it-yourself birdhouse.

Such things will only add originality and creativity to your simple bird house.

THAN ELSE

we can

HELP THE BIRDS.

In addition to hard branches, birds need soft material to build a nest - tufts of dry grass, moss, feathers, rag debris, pieces of paper that they collect everywhere themselves, spending long hours on a shaving search flight.

Why not make the bird's work easier and place a construction warehouse next to the bird's dwelling. Housewarming in your birdhouse will come much earlier if everything you need to create comfort is located next to the house.

You can pick up bunches of grass yourself, tear the cotton wool into pieces and place it in such a way that it is easy for the bird to pull out pieces of material from this construction warehouse. It is not necessary to tie the grass into tight bundles with a thread - the bird will not be able to pull the grass out of the tight bundle. It is necessary to make a storage out of a mesh container.

You can hang a box with rags, cotton and moss nearby. To prevent the wind from blowing the material, the box can be covered with a mesh (metal) or a plastic mesh that we put on the bottom of the kitchen sink.

Or weave-twist balls from flexible branches and put cotton wool, centipon and pieces of chopped newspaper or toilet paper inside such wicker balls.

Even holders for bird fleece and rags specially made for this purpose are sold. They are installed or hung next to birdhouses.

Material for the construction of birdhouses.

MATERIAL for the house must have the correct characteristics of thickness and texture.

THICKNESS. Boards 2 cm thick. Such a thickness of a wooden board will allow you to better keep the heat of the house. After all, nests are built in the spring, when at night it is still quite cold and even frosty.

TEXTURE. As I said, the boards should be rough (croaker boards with unplaned bark will do). And if you only have smooth planed boards, but pieces of bark on them can be stuffed with carnations, glued on liquid nails (thick adhesive composition from spray cans).

Or create artificial roughness - scratch the inner wall of the birdhouse with a knife - make notches for which the bird will cling. Or nail pieces of bark onto the inner wall, several slats one after another like a ladder, or nail a grater, or a piece of insulation (it is made of foamed mass and it will also be convenient for bird claws to climb on it).

IT IS FORBIDDEN make houses from glue boards (plywood, chipboard, fiberboard - these materials contain glue resins, they emit toxins that birds may not like. I don’t know if it’s true or not, but they say that resin pine boards are also not suitable for a birdhouse, which is from warm In the sun, the tar board heats up and releases smelly resin, and that this is supposedly harmful to the birds.

Now I will give diagrams and drawings of simple houses. But I’ll make a reservation right away that your designs can be completely different in shape and size. You are free not to stick exactly to the drawing from the project below. As you have already understood from the photos above, the houses are very different.

But the logic of size must be preserved ... And this logic is as follows.

What are the dimensions of the correct birdhouse.

Window hole size(called letok) - no more than 5 cm in diameter. So that the crow could not stick its head into the birdhouse and eat the chicks. And the cat's head didn't fit in either.

The height of the notch-window- at least 20 cm from the bottom of the house. So that the wind from the window does not blow on the nest of chicks, and so that the chicks are not near the entrance - because of the danger of meeting with a crow's beak or a cat's clawed paw.

Birdhouse height - at least 35 cm. It can be a little higher, but remember that if you make the ceiling too high, then such a high-ceiling house will be harder for the birds to heat (warm air will go up and the birds below in the nest will freeze).

house width- (that is, the square area of ​​\u200b\u200bhis floor) should also not be very large. A spacious house is not considered cozy and a wide nest requires a longer time for its construction. The bird is tormented by filling such a spacious house with twigs. Therefore, we try to stick to the bottom size of 15 x 15 cm (or 20 x 20). That is, if you are making a wide house, then put dry grass there yourself in advance (the bird will only be happy).

As you can see, these dimensions are dictated by the logic of survival in the wild.. And the right birdhouse is the one in which all these features are observed.

Well, now let's move on to the drawings and diagrams.

Here I have collected ways to make a birdhouse in the form of diagrams and drawings. You can choose your model of the house and figure out what details it can be assembled. And remember, it doesn’t matter if your sizes are slightly different - we make it from improvised material and therefore the sizes will depend on our availability.

Here is another drawing of a birdhouse, although here the dimensions are given in inches. It will be easier for you to convert inches to centimeters if you ask your wife for a measuring tape for patterns - the one with which she measures the girth of her slimming waist during a diet. This measuring tape has centimeters on one side and inches on the other. So you can always see a quick conversion of any inch size to centimeter.

These drawings do not take into account one more CONDITION. In the Soviet birdhouses of our childhood there was always a clear rule: the front front wall (the one with the hole) should be tilted forward. This was done so that the starling could climb such an inclined hill to the exit from the house.

To observe this slope, you need to make 2 side walls from the rear edge straight vertical- and from the front oblique(we see a similar principle of oblique side walls in the photo below). Only in this example, the birdhouse generally has a triangular lateral section. And in Soviet birdhouses there was such a slope, but along with it there was also a normal bottom, so that there was enough space for a nest.

Below we see a drawing of real Soviet birdhouses from our childhood. True dimensions here are given in inches.

But if your house does not have a bevel on the sides, then to facilitate the exit of the bird, you can fill an inclined plank on the front wall from the inside of the house (it will perform the same function as a ladder).

And now let's look at the birdhouses of another unusual shape - a rhombus. Here he is in the photo. The idea is certainly beautiful, the house turned out elegant and decorative. But from a practical point of view, it would be better for the birds if the window expanded closer to the left or right edge - then the inclined plane of the wall would serve as a support for the birds to comfortably climb out.

And in this house that flaw that window too low- there is no place for a nest - it turns out that when a bird puts grass and twigs there, the height of the chicks will coincide with the height of the window - and they will look straight out and any crow will pull it out with its beak and devour it without a twinge of conscience.

A reasonable feathered mother will never choose such a dangerous house for housing - and it will just hang in your garden, and you will wonder why the birds do not settle in the birdhouse.

Here is a drawing of a similar house, but here the entrance hole itself is much higher - it's better. And even better to generally raise it under the very roof of the birdhouse. The bird will approve of this option.

APARTMENTS

bird houses.

And here are the options for simple multi-seat birdhouses. You will see a variety of options. Only here, not all apartments will be occupied, the side houses from the photo below have a too low entrance. I wish the same design - but with higher side turrets (or higher notch holes).

And in this photo, too, the central house will be inhabited - but there is no sidewall (the hole-entrance is too low). Therefore, you can make this design, but be aware that the side parts of the house will only have a decorative function. And the bird family will occupy only the middle apartment.

And here (in the photo below) is a multi-seat version, where all three houses are made according to the rules for the height of the notch and the height of the house. Such birdhouses will be fully populated.

Here is a beautiful option - the houses look in different directions of the world. By the way, it is recommended to fix the house so that the window looks to the south side, or to the east. The main thing is not to the north, the birds also need the sun.

It just seems that such a house is difficult to make. In fact, once you start drawing a drawing of a house, you will understand how simple it is. No more difficult than those designs that you made in your boyhood childhood from the designer.

You can design simple cell houses. In a row, like mailboxes in the entrance. Here's a good one on the left. And on the right photo, not very much - the notch is low. Not suitable for starlings, maybe for other birds, I don’t know ...

And here is another project of a multi-seat birdhouse. Here, each cell (except for the middle one) is a separate house with an exit in its own direction. If this drawing is changed and the height of the house is made larger and the entrance hole is raised to a height of 20 cm, then the starlings will appreciate such a communal apartment.

And here are some more options for beautiful and habitable birdhouses for several bird families at once.

Or you can make a very light and simple model - a birdhouse in the form of a rack shelf, with holes for entrances, as in the photo below. Only one drawback needs to be eliminated - here in the model below the houses are not large enough in height - it is necessary. It is necessary to make the height of the shelves at least 35 cm, and raise the notch by 20 cm from the bottom of each apartment shelf. Then the house will be occupied.

DECORATION OF BIRDHOUSES.

Decorative stylized birdhouses look very nice and can decorate any spring garden.

Bottle caps can serve as a decorating material (and at the same time insulating). Any material at hand can become decorative and finishing when building a house for starlings.

Pieces of laminate or linoleum left after repair can serve as material for the puff "tiled" roof of the house.

Just don't ever stop thinking about the birds. And if, for example, you have chosen a sheet of tin to create the roof of a house, think about how such a roof will rattle in the rain. The bird will go crazy with fear under the drum drops with a booming echo resounding in the house. Then, to such a roof, you need to add a sheet of sound-insulating material (foam or foam rubber).

And on the roof of the house you can set up a whole green garden. If you cut holes in parts of the house, put black soil there and plant plants. Pieces of moss or lawn take root well.

As well as special plants related to soilbloods. That is, those that grow with a carpet covering the soil, in the same way they will grow on your house not up, but in breadth with a carpet. This will add thermal insulation to the house. And most importantly, it will allow the birdhouse to merge with nature - and the birds will feel safe in such a cozy shelter disguised as a natural dugout.

WHERE TO BUY A BIRDHOUSE.

Birdhouses are often sold in hardware stores, they are also in construction stores, in the department everything is for summer cottages.

You can also buy them from individual craftsmen. There is such a well-known site called “Masters Fair” - we go to the site and in the old “site search” we set the word “birdhouse” and immediately pop up all the pictures of birdhouses with prices and addresses of the masters. You place an order and receive it by delivery or mail.

Here I have selected original creative works for myself Masters Dmitry(You can see his profile below).

And the same master has such works for sale. Do you want to buy such an exclusive birdhouse for your dacha. You are welcome to Fair of Masters to the author Dmitry (tik-kem).

And here are the works Sergey from the same Fair of Masters. Also cozy pictures of antiquity, revived in the form of birdhouses.

And on the same site there are a lot of options for ready-made kits for self-assembly of houses. Such sets are nice to buy, assemble - AND THEN DESIGN YOUR OWN INDIVIDUAL DECOR (glue over with twigs, overgrown with moss, turn into a toy house, or a fishing shed, or a cartoon character.

Company Workshop No. 13 on the site Fair of Masters offers a lot of kits for assembling birdhouses, as well as paints and coloring schemes for such houses.

If the house kits of this company are expensive for you, then there are other masters selling the bases for birdhouses at a much more reasonable price. For example Master Cat- keeps a good price. You get an excellent solid house and turn on your decorating fantasy to the fullest.

DIY birdhouses

from NON-STANDARD MATERIALS.

Any material at hand can be adapted to a starling house. Previously, before human intervention in bird affairs, starlings found any holes in the natural environment to make a nest there. Therefore, they still do not pay attention to the external form and material - if only it was safe. Boots are boots, you don't have to choose. Moreover, it is very warm there.

On the Internet, such a picture roams - maybe it's a photoshop, or maybe in a deep forest and such a nest turned out to be safe enough for a bird. If the tree is tall and uncomfortable for cats to climb, then the bird will find it a good place to breed.

You can try to arrange any item in your country house as a house for starlings and titmouse. And suddenly he likes it. The ceramic pot holds heat well and does not drum in the rain.

But the iron kettle cools down quickly on a cold night, and during the rain it rattles like a drum, so it’s not suitable.

Houses can be made from old canisters. But just cover them with thick wooden boards - to avoid the roar of rain.

Old wicker baskets with a hole in the side can be turned into an original bird house - just make the notch higher and so that the walls do not blow through, do not be too lazy to insert an inlay made of heat-insulating material inside.

HOUSES for WINTERING of birds.

Many of you will go to Google to look for more interesting drawings for birdhouses, in which case I want to warn you right away. DO NOT CONFUSE BIRDHOUSES (intended for nests and hatching of chicks WITH HOUSES FOR WINTERING OF BIRDS (the purpose of which is to provide a temporary overnight stay for birds in the cold winter season).

Houses for wintering differ in that…

1. They contain an inlet at the bottom(so that warm air rises and remains in the upper part of the house).
2. In such houses they stuff perches on which the birds can sleep on a harsh winter night, protected from wind and cold.

And in winter, in addition to houses for cold weather, birds need feeders. I already have the same voluminous and detailed article on making a variety of bird feeders with my own hands.

Now, you know everything (or almost everything) about birdhouses and houses for hatching chicks. The birdhouse is basically a simple craft. Anyone can do it.

And if you didn’t find your birdhouse design here, then I have another article on the same topic. Perhaps your future bird house is located there -

Good luck with your work. And let the birds celebrate their feathered housewarming this spring. It's so nice to feel like those who built the house.

In our country, with our salaries, not everyone can afford to build houses. But even if you can’t build a house for your family yet, you have already done a real job if you built it at least for a family of birds. To this little, more will follow. After all, the magic of a house made by your own hands is already working to ensure that your family celebrates housewarming.

Magic is born when we start doing a good deed, with these hands of our own.

Olga Klishevska, specially for the site

Materials for making children's cardboard crafts "Bird House"

You will need :

Thick cardboard

dry moss

Acrylic or gouache paints

Artificial twigs, leaves, flowers

Glue "Moment-universal"

Making children's crafts from cardboard "Bird House":

From thick cardboard cut out a strip according to the pattern.

On cardboard, we make markings according to the data in the size chart.

Carefully make folds along the drawn lines.

On the wide part, which is on the right, we cut out a circle with a 4 cm diameter with a clerical knife.

Glue our house.

We cut out a roof detail from cardboard - 12 * 7 cm in size. Bend it in half and glue it.

Then we need to cut out the base for our craft with a size of 17 * 9 cm. We also cut it out of cardboard. Lubricate the house with glue from below and glue it to the base. We paint the house with paints.

So, we have prepared our cardboard house and now we will decorate it.

We glue the roof of the house, the base with glue and sprinkle them with dry moss. On the roof we sprinkle lightly, while on the base more carefully so that the cardboard does not show through the moss.

We also glue a small branch to the base, on which we attach the bird.

Birdhouses are an invention of civilization. Until recently, birds, even without a person, found shelter for themselves, in which they can lay eggs, hatch them and hatch chicks. But the situation has changed: there are practically no hollow trees, especially in the city. It became difficult for birds to find nesting places and people figured out how to help them. They invented analogues of natural nesting - these are birdhouses, titmouses and houses for other birds that you can make with your own hands.

How to make a birdhouse with your own hands at home

Birdhouses are the most popular indoor bird nests. Starlings need this house not for living, but for breeding. Therefore, it has a number of specific requirements.

Requirements for the right craft for birds

• Safe for birds;
• Convenient for laying eggs and hatching chicks;
• Warm enough but with good ventilation;
• With a tray of the appropriate size.

Materials for manufacturing

What are bird houses made of at home? Nature came up with the best material - it is a tree familiar to birds. Practical houses should not be made of chipboard, fiberboard, drywall, soft cardboard and other unsuitable materials. Wooden structures can stand for a long time, while paper, lining and cardboard quickly collapse under adverse weather conditions.

Boards are better to take hardwood. Coniferous - not the most suitable material. They secrete resin and make the bird's habitat sticky and dangerous to the birds. Resin can stick together the plumage of birds, and this is fraught with diseases and even death of birds. But you can hang a birdhouse on any tree in your country garden or in the yard. Here the birds do not care where to live, the main thing is to be warm and protected.

For decorative birdhouses, which are installed in places protected from wind and rain, boxes, bottles, cardboard and other materials are used.

Designs, shapes and diagrams of the device

All birdhouses can be divided according to the schemes into two groups:

• Houses of various forms;
• Duplyanki.

A traditional birdhouse is a rectangular box with a flat, single-pitched or gable roof and a round hole-notch. The size of the notch depends on who will live in the house.

Dimensions

• Height: 30–40 cm;
• Bottom length and width: 14–16 cm;
• Notch diameter: 5 cm.

If these dimensions are reduced, and a notch 3–3.5 cm in diameter is made, then a titmouse will turn out. Birds will settle in it, which daily eat insect pests and various larvae several times more than their own weight.

How to make according to drawings

It is necessary to build a house, as it should be, otherwise it will simply fall apart from the first gusts of wind. It is important to respect the dimensions. In a house that is too small, the birds will be crowded, in a large house it will be cold. Often a perch is made in front of the entrance - a perch. Birds rarely use them.

It is especially important to observe the correct size of the notch (inlet). It should be such that a bird can freely pass there, but predators - cats and crows - cannot get into it.

You can make a birdhouse in the form of a hollow. To do this, use a part of the trunk of a deciduous tree and hollow out the core in it. From above and below, the hollow is closed and a notch is made in the side wall. Such a house will remind the birds of a natural hollow.

How to make from wood

Boards made of alder, birch and aspen are suitable for nesting. The inside of the house should be rough. Smooth boards need to be processed with a chisel - apply horizontal notches. Chicks will be able to cling to these ledges and easily get out of the house.

In addition to the boards you will need:

• Nails;
• Joiner's glue;
• Ruler and pencil;
• Wood saw, jigsaw;
• Chisel or drill;
• Hammer.
• Water-based paint and decorative elements.

Sometimes the houses are painted. Do not decorate them with bright colors, this can scare away birds.

Birdhouse made of plywood and lining on a branch

This is the simplest bird house design. The tools are no different from those used in working on a wooden birdhouse. Depending on which roof you have chosen for the birdhouse (single or gable), you will need 6 or 7 parts. So, we are building a plywood house.

Manufacturing steps:

1. Drawing. You need to determine the dimensions, make a sketch, clarify the placement of the walls, lid, bottom and fasteners and start creating a drawing.
2. Cutting and sawing. First you need markup. All parts are transferred to plywood in such a way that the bottom overlaps the cuts of the walls, and the upper part acts as a visor. They cut plywood, adjusted for the width of the jigsaw and the gap.
3. Assembly of parts. All cuts must be sanded. You can connect the parts with glue and self-tapping screws. It is necessary to glue the side walls and the front facade. After the glue has completely dried, the structure is strengthened with nails or self-tapping screws. The back wall is nailed last.
4. Bottom and Roof. The bottom is screwed around the entire perimeter with self-tapping screws. The roof is better to make removable. This makes it easier to take care of the birdhouse. Once a year, you will need a general cleaning of the birdhouse from old nests, so the roof is fixed with only two screws. It should protrude 3-4 cm, forming a visor in front of the notch.
5. Birdhouse ready. It can be painted and decorated to your liking.

How to build a cardboard

Cardboard is not the most durable material, but birdhouses made of it also have the right to life. Cardboard is better to take dense. Binding cardboard works well. It holds its shape well and is easy to color and process. Choose non-toxic ingredients, because birds will raise their offspring in this house!

Cardboard birdhouses will not be durable, but if done correctly, they will survive the season.

To make such a bird house, you need to follow the following steps:

1. Sketch development. You need to make sketches and refine the dimensions.
2. Drawing and cutting. Depending on the chosen design, a drawing is developed. All dimensions are transferred to cardboard and cut out with a clerical knife or jigsaw.
3. Connection of parts. Assembly is carried out using wood glue. Its order is no different from the previous model.
4. Finishing processing. Even the best cardboard is afraid of moisture. Therefore, such birdhouses must be treated with special means. It can be protective varnishes and paints.

Out of the box (made of cardboard and paper)

Cardboard boxes can make life a lot easier for bird lovers. Birdhouses are made quickly and do not require special tools.

Manufacturing steps:

1. Decide where in the birdhouse there will be a notch, and make a markup.
2. Cut a hole at the marked location. Treat the cuts with moisture protection.
3. Attach the roof. All parts can be connected with glue or tape.
4. Coat the birdhouse with varnish or paint. Beautiful painting colors your design. You can come up with interesting decor details.

bottle houses

Our industry offers such a variety of beverage containers that it's hard to resist reusing them. Plastic bottles are an interesting material not only for children's crafts, but also for such a useful thing as a birdhouse.

Manufacturing steps:

1. Training. Suitable plastic bottles with a volume of at least 1.5 liters. They must be clean and free of foreign odors.
2. Make a mark on the bottle. Mark the location of the notch. Cut out the hole with scissors or a knife.
3. Treat the sharp edge of the cut with tape or plaster.
4. Insulate and decorate the house with burlap, twine winding or thick yarn tying.
5. If desired, you can paint the house with acrylic paint. This will give rigidity to the structure and give it a finished look.

Unusual and original birdhouses from improvised materials

What kind of birdhouses you will not see today. Designers are developing entire collections of these unusual houses from improvised materials. Fans are not far behind. In the gardens you can see bird houses of the most intricate shapes and designs. For this, traditional and modern technologies are used.

The most popular types of original birdhouses are:

• Wicker wicker houses. Birds like these birdhouses. They are made from environmentally friendly materials. Fans of weaving from paper tubes can also use their skills to build a bird house.
• Cork houses. For this, wine corks are used. The material is durable, tolerates precipitation well. The only negative is the complexity of the assembly. Therefore, it is used in combination with wood or plywood.
• Barrel-birdhouse. Small barrels in their shape resemble hollows and are perfect for a bird's home.
• Shoe houses. You will need a large boot, which is hung on a tree at the right height.
• Birdhouse made of branches. For such a house, the branches are connected with self-tapping screws or twisted with a rope.
• Pumpkin bird house. To do this, use a special utensil gourd lagenaria. They just make a hole in it for a notch.

Decorative and beautiful for the garden

Birds do not need painting. They may well get by with the simplest birdhouse. But for a person, a birdhouse is a space for creativity. Here are some interesting decor ideas.

How to decorate a birdhouse? Acrylic paints are used for painting. The birdhouse must first be treated with a primer.

You can make a whole series of "Seasons" and display changes in nature on the walls of the bird house. For those who do not know how to draw, applications and decoupage are suitable. Just do not forget this beauty is covered with sweat varnish.

New Year's birdhouses

Such houses decorate the gardens during the January holidays. Birds do not nest at this time. But the birdhouse can be used as a feeder. And in the spring this design will turn into a real nest. You can decorate New Year's birdhouses with branches of needles, berries and other materials, but only natural ones!

How to hang a house?

You need to attach a bar to the back of the house, with the help of bark it will be hung on a tree. It is advisable to hang it vertically evenly or tilted forward. If wire is used for this, then it should be at least 2 mm thick, it is better to take stainless steel. You can hang birdhouses at any time of the year, but it is better when the birds return - in the spring.

Video

On the video, different options for bird houses:

Outcome

Birdhouses installed in the garden attract different birds. Do not be discouraged if they do not immediately settle in your house. Sometimes this takes time. Use a simple birdhouse base and use all your imagination when creating decor. Your efforts will be appreciated not only by winged friends, but also by neighbors, and even more so by a garden that will thank you with a good harvest.