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Don't Toss Old Planter Pots When You Can Reuse Them To Attract Birds
By Buffy Naillon
If you're an avid bird lover, a passionate gardener, and a fan of lighthouses, you can bring these elements together to make a lighthouse-shaped bird feeder using old plant pots.
The plant pots need to be three different sizes, which you'll fit together. You'll place the large bottom terracotta pot inside a shallow 10-inch terracotta saucer.
If the bottom pot that makes up the lighthouse is too big, it won't fit into the saucer very well, and you'll reduce the area in which you can place the birdseed.
You'll also need different paint colors to create the details of the lighthouse, paint brushes, a glue gun, a flameless candle, a jar for the flameless candle, and some bird seeds.
Once you have cleaned and dried the pots, paint the details of the lighthouse on them. Afterward, you'll have to glue the pots together.
The easiest way to do this is to line the inside of the rims of the two smaller pots with some glue from your glue gun. Then, glue the bottom pot to the saucer.
On top of the lighthouse tower, you'll glue one of the saucers in an upright position. The lighting mechanism goes inside the small terracotta saucer to create the bird feeder topper.