The Endless Possibilities Of A Ceramic Bird House

When it comes to bird houses there are all kinds of possibilities. Nearly everyone has seen the standard wooden bird houses that we make in high school shop class or come in neatly packaged kits at the store just ready for assembly. Those are nice but sometimes I like to get really creative and one of the easiest ways to get creative is to buy a ceramic bird house kit. By ceramic bird house kit I mean a ceramic bird house in a the style that you want but left white so you can paint it however you want. The only drawback to a ceramic bird house kit is that you cannot fire it so that the paint is adhered to the ceramic bird house and this means the weather can get at the paint quickly.

Your other option is to shop around for a finished ceramic bird house and there is quite a variety of ceramic bird houses to choose from and each of them can be as individual as you want it to be. Some bird house designs include light houses with operating lights, a southern plantation, and even an old European castle. It is hard to imagine such luxury in a bird house but when you consider the ease of making a ceramic bird house, and the relatively low cost, then you are only limited by your own imagination.

A Great Gift

Many years ago my mom, many of her friends, and several of my aunts all belonged to a local ceramic club the learned how to make ceramic pieces and among them were these very elaborate bird houses. When people are allowed to make their own customized bird houses you can really see their personalities come through in their work and these ladies were making some extremely impressive bird houses. For several Springs and Summers in my hometown we were overrun with a plethora of some of the most beautiful ceramic bird houses anyone had ever seen.

But years pass and the ceramic club closed down and my mom and her friends had sold all of the bird houses they had made and saved none for themselves. I guess you can get caught up in the notion of people really wanting to buy something you have created and that is the beauty of learning a craft like ceramics and matching that up with such a popular lawn decoration as the bird house.