At Club Wild we have been making fat cakes for the birds.
Here is our quick and easy ‘Club Wild – Bird Fat Cake’ recipe:
Ingredients
– Lard/Vegetable or beef suet
– Porridge oats
Any of the following – bird seed, meal worms, bird nuts, ground nuts, hard cheese
Moulds – yoghurt pots or other plastic tubs, coconut shells, pine cones
– String to tie the mould
Mix all the ingredients together in a bowl until they are bound together. The warmth of our hands made the fat squidgy and sticky. Spoon the mixture into the mould and press it down.
By providing fat for the birds we are helping them put on the weight they need to keep warm and survive the winter. Hopefully we will attract more birds to the school grounds where we can watch and learn more about them.
