This nesting bag--a supermarket onion sack filled with soft and colorful nesting materials--lets you play interior designer to your feathered clientele. Starting in early spring, set out an appealing variety of nesting materials, then watch as the shoppers rummage for their favorites. You won't make a dime, but you'll have the most entertaining yard sale on the block. You might even spy a piece of your abandoned knitting woven into a nearby nest.

DIRECTIONS

1. Carefully open the onion bag by removing the clasp or making a cut with scissors just below the clasp. Take out the onions.

2. Fill the bag loosely with nesting materials. Make sure that nothing exceeds 8 inches or so; longer pieces can strangle small birds. Also, choose materials that can easily be pulled through the mesh.

3. Tie the top of the bag back together with twine or string, leaving an extra foot or so of string to secure the bag to the branch of a tree or bush.

MATERIALS

Mesh onion bag
Scissors
Nesting materials (string, yarn, dryer lint, dried grass, feathers, fabric scraps, dog combings)
Twine or strong string

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