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How To Make A Box Full Of DIY Cat Toys

May 5, 2017 By Sydney Shapansky 10 Comments

Learn how to make your own DIY cat toys with Kilo the Pug and a cute box to put them in while you're at it

Make These Adorable Homemade Cat Toys

With The DIY Dogs

What’s up my Pup Peeps?

It’s Kilo the DIY Dog here with a big shout out to all my Kitty Peeps. Today’s craft is all about cats…grrrr.

I sat down with my Handy Human and we made a whole box full of DIY cat toys for her favourite feline, Bean. Luckily I still got treats and to play with the toys first.

You can watch this handy-dandy video on how to make each of the toys and deck out your toy box to make it extra cool, or you can read the written instructions below.

How To Make A Pipe Cleaner Spider

DIY Cat Toy Pipe cleaner spider

Things you need:  3 Pipe Cleaners

Steps:

1: Cut two (2) of the pipe cleaners in half.

2: Twist the four (4) pieces together in the middle to make eight (8 ) spider legs.

Spider 3

3: Wrap your third pipe cleaner around the centre to make the body of the spider 

Making a Spider Cat Toy with Pipe Cleaners

4: Fan out the legs.

DIY Cat Toy 4 Pipe Cleaners twisted to make 8 Spider legs

5: Bend them slightly in the middle to give your spider knees.

Making a Pipe Cleaner Spider Cat Toy

5: Bend the very tip of each leg to make it look like a foot.

Finished DIY Spider Cat Toy

6: Play with your Cat!

Bean with spider toy

Bean with spider toy 1

How To Make A Pipe Cleaner Pom Pom Wand Toy

DIY Cat Toy pipe cleaner and pompom completed

Things you need: 2 Pipe Cleaners, a Pencil and a Pom Pom/Feathers/String

Steps:

1: Start by wrapping the ends of the two pipe cleaners together so they are attached firmly and make one long one.

2: Wrap the long double pipe cleaner around a pen or pencil to give it a spiral shape.

DIY Black-Piper-Cleaner Cat Toy-2

DIY Cat Toy pipe cleaner wound around pen

3: Stretch it out a little and attach your pom pom, feathers or anything that dangles to the end securely by twisting the pipe cleaner around.

Making Pom Pom Black Pipe Cleaner Toy

4: Play with your Cat.

Bean with pom pom toy - Edited

How To Make A Pipe Cleaner Ball-In-A-Cage

DIY Cat Toy tin foil in a pipe cleaner ball completed

Things you need: Tin Foil, and 1 or 2 Pipe Cleaners

Steps:

1: Take the piece of tin foil and scrunch it up into a ball. 

Tin Foil toy 2

2: Use one or two pipe cleaners to wrap loosely around the tin foil ball like a cage.

DIY Cat Toy pipe cleaners twisted to make a ball

3: Do this by making loops in the pipe cleaners and weaving them together.

Tin Foil toy 6

4: Attach the loops of the cage together in a few points so the ball won’t fall out by twisting together the pieces.

DIY tin foil ball and pipe cleaner Cat Toy

5: Close the holes by just adjusting where the pipe cleaners sit around the tin foil.

6: Play!

bean with cage ball toy 1

How To Make A Mini Cork Scratch Toy

DIY Cat Toy Cork scratch and roll

Things you need: A Wine Bottle Cork, String/Twine, and Feathers/Paper bits/Several short pieces of string

Steps:

1: Take the cork which may already have a hole in the end from an opener (if not, get some help to make a small one with a safety pin or opener) and use the tip of a pen or a pencil to push the ends of your feathers, string or paper in as deep as you can. 

Crock toy 3

2: Cover your cork with string by just wrapping it around the whole thing and tucking in the end.

Crock toy 4

DIY Cat Toy Cork from above

3: Play!

bean with the cork toy - Edited

How To Make An Awesome Box For All Your New Toys To Go In

Things you need: A Box with a Lid, Decorative Tape, Stickers, Label, and any other Decorations you want.

Steps:

1: Take a box with a lid like a shoebox or something and get some stickers and decorative tape to jazz it up

Box 1

2: Decorate your box! We used a sheet of glittery tape for the top of our box, stuck some cheetah print tape on to dress up the sides and then some cute cat stickers to give it that extra Pop! 

Box 5

3: You can use a chalk or regular label too to write your cat’s name and make the box your own

Box 11

4: Play! (Because we all know your cat is going to like the box better than the actual toys.)

Never leave your cat unattended to play with small toys, especially ones with string or bits dangling off as swallowing these can be dangerous.

Filed Under: Cats, DIY Tagged With: Cat Toys, cats, DIY, DIY Dogs, How to make cat toys, kilo the DIY dog, Kilo the Pug, pipe cleaner toys, simple cat toys you can make yourself, Tutorial Videos

Comments

  1. Ruth Epstein says

    May 8, 2017 at 12:28 am

    What great ideas and what I really love is that you can give these projects to kids to do, thanks

    Reply
  2. Robin says

    May 8, 2017 at 1:22 am

    These are so much fun! My kitties would love them all. They play with pipe cleaners all of the time. I think the spider would be really popular with my cats. If I may offer a suggestion, please be careful with the string on the mini-cork scratch toy. It is a great idea, but you don’t want the string to come off. If a string is swallowed by a cat, it can get tangled in the cat’s intestines and cause serious problems. As long as the string is well attached, there should be no problem. It was so nice of Kilo to help make some toys for kitties!

    Reply
    • Susan Nation says

      May 16, 2017 at 7:24 am

      Thanks so much Robin. Adding some warnings to always supervise play and make sure to be careful with string.

      Reply
  3. Sweet Purrfections says

    May 8, 2017 at 1:36 am

    I keep forgetting about how wonderful pipe cleaners are as cat toys. I need to try and make some of these.

    Reply
  4. Sadie says

    May 8, 2017 at 11:22 am

    This is a fabulous site! And, such a great idea:

    Creating cat toys – a great experience for kids and their companions.
    Everyone looks like they’re having fun!

    Reply
  5. Sonja of Montecristo Travels says

    May 8, 2017 at 11:52 am

    I use to make stuff like this when I had 4 kitties. Now it’s a dog and … he only loves one toy. BUT I may keep this in mind for kitty birthdays.

    Reply
  6. Kia says

    May 8, 2017 at 12:04 pm

    Aw, these are all super cute and easy to make. I wish I was that creative!

    Reply
  7. Kitty Cat Chronicles says

    May 8, 2017 at 2:22 pm

    These toys are so cute! And so easy to make! I think my cats would love them – going to have to give them a try! Thanks!

    Reply
  8. Beth says

    May 8, 2017 at 2:57 pm

    Those are some great DIY toys for cats. My niece would have loved making those for her cats when she was a little kid.

    Reply
  9. Jenna Hughson says

    May 9, 2017 at 2:22 pm

    I love the site!!!! Well done!

    Reply

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