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Christmas Cookie Ornaments for the Birds
You will need:
Christmas cookie cutters (such as stars and bells)
a drinking straw
6 pieces of bread
3 Tablespoons cornmeal
1 Tablespoon peanut butter
1 Tablespoon shortening
bird seed
red ribbon
Cut bread into shapes with cookie cutters. Using a straw, make a hole near the top of each ornament. Slip red ribbons through the holes, and tie into a loop, for hangers. Leave bread out overnight to dry. Mix cornmeal, shortening, and peanut butter. Spread on bread, both sides. Decorate both sides with birdseed. Hang your ornaments onto tree branches!
When nature made the blue-bird she wished to propitiate both the sky and the earth, so she gave him the color of the one on his back and the hue of the other on his breast.
~John Burroughs
Dominica, Mexico, Zambia, Kiribati, Fiji and Egypt all have birds on their flags.
