Painting the Birdhouses

We brought our paint supplies outside to paint the birdhouses on Sunday afternoon. The Banana hasn’t painted her house yet because we could not extract her from the book she was in the middle of reading. The finished products are lovely, every one of them different than the next, which is the best way to be. Each person was creative in their own special way even though our actual color choices were a bit limited. (Time to get more paint!)

I’m super excited to hang the houses in our trees this week. When we started making birdhouses, I didn’t expect them to actually get used, but it turns out our yard is full of birds looking for real estate. We really enjoy watching them build nests in the houses and fly in and out all summer long.

Dr. Peds even designed the birdhouses with a special little swinging door in the bottom so that we can extract the previous season’s nests and clean the houses out for future use.