Materials
Hand saw
Pine lumber
Scrap pine
Hammer
Nails
Pieces of tree bark or floral moss
Instructions
- Cut your pine boards to the following dimensions
- Two sides – 6 inch x 18 inch – cut the top at an angle so that one side is 18 inches long and the other side is 17 inches long
- One back – 4 ½ inch x 18 inch
- One front – 4 ½ inch x 17 inch
- One bottom – 4 ½ inch x 6 inch
- One top – 7 inch x 7 inch
- Cut three 12 inch long slits in the front
- Make the slits one inch wide, with one several inches higher than the other two
- Nail the bark or moss to the back piece to give the butterflies something to cling to
- Lay the back down with the bark side up
- Stand one of the side pieces up against it with the longer sides in back
- Hold and nail in place
- Do the same with the other side
- Put the front in between the two side pieces and nail in place
- Nail on the bottom and the top
- Mount the house on a post in the shade