Birdseed "Sandbox"

I doubt that even in a metropolitan area the birds would really bother the kids much while they were actually being active in it. The only place I could see that happening is somewhere that feeding the pigeons is an actual event, like in Venice, where they will land on people and eat out of their hands. Otherwise, birds, even pigeons in cities, will fly away when you are actively moving around and such.

Anyway, this sounds like an interesting idea, as long as the birdseed isn't left in the sandbox and it's just a one-time per purchase thing. Otherwise, bugs will start getting at it and it'd turn rather unpleasant!

But for one afternoon it's a good idea, and then the kids can feed the birds, and depending on age, could even help make a suet feeder, or maybe use some mesh bags to make those little bag feeders... =)

Sorry to hear about your bad experience with the bugs - that might sour me on birdseed too - hope you got your money back.

Didn't have a problem with the birds trying to eat it when the kids were playing but birds around here are fairly skittish.

Maybe in larger cities like New York City where people feed birds all of the time and they have no fear or humans wouldn't be a good idea - wouldn't want to recreate a scene from Hitchcock's "The Birds".

My son still preferred the messy sandbox for his cars, but this wasn't as messy and it was fun because it was something different than what he was used to.

Last time I bought a bag of bird seed, it was infested with these little bugs called wevils.. NEVER bring bird seed in the house..just incase cool idea, would have tried it if not for my bad experience with bugs.

Oh! This looks so neat! It seems a lot better than getting sand in your pants, but won't there be a lot of birds around?! It really is neat though! I love this! (=