Make some bird pudding for the birds that live in your garden.There isn't a lot of food around in their habitat in the winter time. Make the recipe below. Hang it from a piece of string or in a mesh bag in a tree in your garden. Then take a photo to put on your Padlet page or the class Padlet page link -
Bird Pudding Padlet page
Bird Pudding Recipe
1 cup lard or kremelta
1 cup rolled oats or cereal - rice bubbles, weetbix
1 cup stale breadcrumbs - not mouldy
1 cups bird seed (from the supermarket or Animates)
1/2 raisins or sultanas
2 1 cup containers - cream cheese, yoghurt or margarine
30cm length of string for each container
1. Melt lard or kremelta in jug in microwave
2. Add rest of ingredients, mix well
3. Line each container with glad wrap and place the end of the string in each container
4. Place in fridge till it is hard
5. Lift out, remove gladwrap and hang in a tree - tie string around a branch
Click on this link to visit Forest and Bird NZ site - another bird pudding recipe
You may see these birds around your garden or in the bush. Can you name any of them? What do they eat? What else do you know about them? Are there any other birds that live in your garden? Write your answers on the wallwisher wall.
Bird Pudding Padlet page
P.S. Take some photos of your bird pudding and paste on the padlet page.
