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10 Easy DIY Bird Bath Projects
Every setting that encourages birds needs a birdbath. While there are many various kinds of birdbaths you can purchase, there are even more ways, regardless of your degree of making ability, to make your own bath from upcycled, recycled, or repurposed items. These 10 inventive ideas provide water to your favourite backyard birds in interesting and enjoyable ways while also providing lots of chances for creativity and customization.
1. Tippy Pots Planter and Bath
The topsy turvy design is among the most entertaining and imaginative ways to use clay pots to create DIY bird baths, along with simple towers and inventive stacking. The project is brought to life by the use of bright colours, and the pointed pots are ideal for planting ferns, flowers, and other types of flora. To draw even more birds, choose hummingbird-friendly blooms or flowers that produce seeds.
DIY Bird Bath and Garden Planter from Home Stories A to Z
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2. Recycled Glassware Birdbath
Although pedestal birdbaths are a common style, your pedestal need not be uninteresting or simple. For a birdbath with additional shine and flair, recycling glassware is a terrific alternative, and who doesn’t have old vases, platters, and dishes collecting dust in a cupboard or piling up at a thrift store? Put them to good use by building a vintage-inspired birdbath for the yard.
Bird Bath Made of Recycled Glass from a Flea Market for Gardening
3. Teapot Birdbath
With this stack of teapot birdbaths, you can add picture-book whimsy to your landscape and invite birds to a tea party. With a little paint, mismatched cups, saucers, and teapots can come together to make a fun and distinctive pattern that goes perfectly with a teapot birdhouse. Use your own random china or go to yard sales or thrift shops for a wide range of options to transform into a DIY birdbath.
Garden Art from Morena’s Corner: Teapot Bird Bath
4. One-of-a-Kind Birdbath
You may use various colours and a range of things to fill the piled vases to display your creativity with this stacked birdbath. For interesting colours and textures, try pebbles, marbles, coloured gravel, seashells, coloured sand, yarn scraps, tumbled rocks, or any other fascinating fillers. The project has good stability and uniformity thanks to the wood slice separators.
DecoArt’s homemade bird bath
5. Stacked Stone Birdbath
This straightforward stone stack’s rustic appearance will offer structure and a modest water feature to more natural gardens. For bird bath basins, galvanised trash can lids are ideal, and the more dents and bumps the better for a worn appearance. The addition of stones inside the basin increases the perching area for birds and secures the lids.
Bird Bath with Stacked Stones from Our Fairfield Home & Garden
6. Glass Lid Hanging Birdbath
This easy glass lid bath is a simple but excellent project to attract birds with water. Hanging birdbaths are a terrific alternative for hanging below balconies, from awnings, or from large tree branches. When it comes time to clean the birdbath, the chain offers durability and stability to hang the bath, yet the lid can be easily removed and washed (even in the dishwasher).
Sadie Seasongoods’ “Thrifted Glass Lid Hanging Bird Bath”
7. Cute Serving Dish Birdbath
Numerous vibrant serving bowls and platters are available at dollar stores and secondhand shops that can be transformed into beautiful birdbaths. With a carved table leg (recycled, of course) serving as the pedestal, this project adds even more personalised flair. It also includes a strong base to ensure that the birdbath can hold all of its feathered visitors without tilting or toppling.
cute serving bowl from HomeJelly, bird bath
8. Repurposed Lamp Birdbath
One clever option is to upcycle an old lamp into a DIY birdbath; you don’t need to be an electrician to accomplish it. What you actually need is an antique, decorative lamp that you might pick up at a yard sale, thrift shop, or resale shop, along with your preferred paint shade to give it some contrast. Your birds will adore the chance for a chic bath if you add a crystal basin or other dish for the water.
Orange Bird Bath Converted to a Lamp by Thrifty Rebel Vintage
9. Tomato Cage Birdbath
A straightforward tomato cage birdbath may be added to your vegetable garden or anyplace else you want birds to make a splash. The cage’s strong wire serves as an accessible base for the clay saucer basin. To add even more water and character to the garden, you may build numerous baths at various heights or trim the cage to any desired height.
10. Jeweled Concrete Bird Bath
Perhaps you already own a large, cracked, or chipped concrete birdbath that is beginning to show its age. Give it a fresh coat of glitz with some glittering diamonds and a small, brightly coloured basin in the centre for a fun focal point. Even better, leave the smaller basin unattached in the bath so that it is simple to clean as necessary.
Following the Master Gardener’s instructions for DIY bird bath restoration.