Cress and Fat Balls

Our cress heads have grown! We were very excited.  We looked at the one growing under the cover - its leaves were much paler than the others, because it had grown in the dark.

In the winter time the birds get very hungry. This week we made fat balls for the birds in our garden. We got the kitchen to save some yoghurt pots from lunch.

We made a hole in the bottom (in the middle)  so we could thread some string through. We cut a length of string and tied a knot at the end then threaded it through the yoghurt pot.

Meanwhile some of us melted some suet (fat) in the microwave and stirred in some bird seed.  You need 1 kg of seed and about 500g fat. Then we packed the pots with the fat/seed mix, made sure the string came out of the middle of the pot and left them to set until next week.

Here is a picture of a fat ball that we made, we hung them up on our trees and fences.