Thursday, January 29, 2015

Cookies for the Birds

This morning we planned an outing to the marsh to feed the birds.
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We've been before because it’s very close to our school and is a short
           trail that our little ones can manage fairly easily.

We were going to make bird feeders but then I found this recipe at 
                            Imagine Childhood.
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    It was a switch to bake cookies for the birds instead of ourselves. 
We followed the recipe, adding margarine, flour, oatmeal and baking powder.
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A fun part was when we added the egg, the recipe said to add the shell too. 
                         So we crushed it up with our hands.
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Next we added bird seed and blueberries (we had some in the freezer)
                                and mixed it altogether.
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We rolled it out between two sheets of waxed paper and started to
                                use cookie cutters.
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The cookie cutter didn’t work well so we decided to roll the dough into
                             balls and poke a hole in each.
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They bake for about 15 or until hard and brown.  All ready to take the marsh.
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We strung green yarn through the hole and looked for a tree to hang it from.
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                The colours almost match the environment.
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                Will the birds find them?  Will they like them?