Making a Recycled Bird Feeder | Camp GPB

Learn how reducing, reusing, and recycling can help reduce the world's pollution problem. Use the engineer design process to build a bird feeder using recyclable items!

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Making a Recycled Bird Feeder | Camp GPB

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Making a Recycled Bird Feeder | Camp GPB

Learn how reducing, reusing, and recycling can help reduce the world's pollution problem. Use the engineer design process to build a bird feeder using recyclable items!

Materials needed for this lesson include:

- recycled cardboard (5"x16")

- glue

- tape

- rope/string

- scissors

- recycled plastic cups

- color construction paper (optional)

- wooden skewers (optional)

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Recycling Bird Feeder activity

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