Different birds have different preference of bird house. There are those birds that are choosy in their bird house choice. Do not be surprised if you seem to be attracting the attention of one type more than the other. Consider these things first before you choose the bird house to build based from the free patterns that you have gotten. Your bird house does not have to be like any ordinary bird houses. You can create a fancy bird house depending on your creativity and the materials that you will use. Fancy bird houses are now being created for a variety of purposes. One: so that it will stand out from those that are made from metals and that that look plain and uninteresting. Another way of doing this is to ask bird experts. They will be able to point out some important factors to consider when building a blue bird house that will suit the birds that you want to attract. Unlike any other types of birds, blue birds have an instinct that tells them how sparrows and starlings are preying on their breed. But having to consider their needs first and making other alteration for the design will be your priority. The size of the nest box must be suited to the specific species of birds. Whatever the unique kind of design you want, you need to know their needs; from the size of the hole, size of the house, placement, and other specifications, if it meets their requirements, thinks of its needs first, then you can get a customized design for them. Having the sounds of the children laughing and enjoying every minute of it makes the hard work a little bit easy. Seeing their faces after you present them with the finished bird house is priceless too. Another advantage with having kids around the making of the bird craft house is that they might have ideas they can share with you. Some of the typical cavity dwellers are the chickadees, wrens, flickers and bluebirds. You can select one from them and think of nice bird house you can make for that bird species. Don't think of building too many bird houses in your garden or backyard. Birds are very territorial, and it is not that nice to see so many birds of different species dwelling on one place.