If you're making a pumpkin pie or soup in autumn, don't waste the tough outer skin – put it to good use and turn it into a bird feeder.

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Learn how to grow pumpkins.

This simple design will attract a variety of garden birds, which can nibble at the exposed pumpkin flesh as they dine on the seeds.

You Will Need

  • Pumpkin
  • Sharp knife
  • Wire
  • Bird seed
  • Tablespoon

Step 1

Scooping out the pumpkin flesh
Scooping out the pumpkin flesh

Cut the pumpkin in half and use a tablespoon to scoop out as much flesh as possible, creating a deep pit in one half. Use the flesh in soups or stews.


Step 2

Looping wire through the pumpkin
Looping wire through the pumpkin

Pierce a hole in the pumpkin half, at the opposite end from the pit. Gently loop the wire through and use this to hang your pumpkins from a tree branch.

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Step 3

Pouring bird seed into the halved pumpkin
Pouring bird seed into the halved pumpkin
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Holding the pumpkin half in one hand, gently tip a quantity of mixed bird seed into the pit. Gently release the pumpkin so it hangs freely but doesn't swing.


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