Birdhouse gourds are often available at farmers markets and craft stores, already dried, or you can grow your own. To make the birdhouse, adults should do the cutting and drilling or supervise ...

Larger gourds that you plan to use as dippers, birdhouses or crafts should be cured for three or four weeks. When these larger gourds are completely dry, they will be very lightweight and you can ...

Early Bird’s Place, set between Chalk Hill Road and Maacama Creek, is one of the area’s biggest producers of gourds, selling dried gourds from their farm, at the Healdsburg Farmers Market and ...

Snake gourds: Long, green and, well, snake-like. They can be painted to look like snakes. Apple and birdhouse gourds: These gourds can be dried and painted to resemble fruit. They also make great ...

These days, less utilitarian uses for gourds include birdhouses, crafts and fall décor to pair with pumpkins and mums on your front porch in fall. ... dipper gourds and birdhouse gourds.

Gourds shaped like apples, snakes, swans, penguins and ducks, as big as basketballs or as curvy as an hourglass are all easy to grow, look great in the garden, and can be used to make birdhouses […] ...

A keyhole saw (about $5 at crafts shops) is all you need to carve a hole big enough to allow a little bird in and the little seeds out. Make two tiny holes on either side of the top of the gourd ...

Choctow and Chickasaw Native Americans made gourd birdhouses to attract colonies of purple martins, which cleared the air of insects. Today gourds are avidly ... GOURDS ARE NATURAL CRAFT PROJECTS ...

Snake gourds: Long, green and, well, snake-like. They can be painted to look like snakes. Apple and birdhouse gourds: These gourds can be dried and painted to resemble fruit. They also make great ...

Her creations include bird houses, Pinocchio, and a Purple People Eater.