Lovey dovey treats

This activity has it all:

feeding hungry love birds

busying bored kids

decorating for Valentine's Day

 Here's all you do:

• Line a jellyroll pan with foil.
• Melt a suet cake (about 12 oz.) in a saucepan over low heat.
• Add some birdseed and mix.
• When all is melted and mixed, quickly pour mixture into the foil-lined jellyroll pan.

• Chill pan of melted suet in the fridge overnight.
• Cut the suet into fun shapes using cookie cutters.
    (Some shapes will break. It happens.) 
• Poke a hole through each shape--for hanging with strings later.
    (Be sure to poke all the way through.)
• Freeze the shapes that look best.
• Save the scraps. The birds will eat them even if they aren't pretty.
• Remove the frozen shapes from the freezer.
• Thread a string through each hole and tie.
• Hang these festive creations in a tree.

Warm your heart while watching the birds enjoy their special Valentine dinner!

 

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