hey guys in today's video I'm going to be showing you how to make this DIY
paper mache hamster hideout or playground so the things you will need
are one cup of baking flour three cups of water 1/4 of a teaspoon of salt you
also are going to need newspapers as well as some blank white printing paper
you also will need some cardboard boxes in different sizes as well as maybe some
toilet paper tubes if you are making this for Syrians I wouldn't recommend
using toilet paper tubes just because most don't fit through them and I
wouldn't want them to get stuck so the first thing you are going to want to do
is plan out how you want your playground/ hideout to look like
be creative with this you can make it however you want
when I was building this I cut out the bottom box so that it would have bedding
be able to come through and it wouldn't just be a cardboard bottom it would be
bedding bottom as well as I used small pieces of tape to hold things together
this will eventually get covered with the newspaper
I also took newspaper and crunched that up just to fill up any empty spaces
once you're done you can get started with making your paste you're going to want
to start by boiling two cups of water while that's boiling you can start making
the mix so you can take your 1 cup of water and then your 1 cup of flour as
well as your 1/4 teaspoon of salt and mix that all together
once the 2 cups of boiling water have boiled you can add that into the mix and mix that together
and then you're going to take that entire mix and you're going to put that
onto the stove to boil at a medium to high temperature and you're going to
want to stir for 1 to 2 minutes until this starts becoming thick
if you find that your mix has become a little too thick you can add in a little bit of
boiling water and that can help make it liquidy then while you're waiting for
that to cool down you can start ripping up some newspaper and then once it's
cooled down you can start applying the newspaper to your creation now I only do
one layer of newspaper but if you want it to be more sturdy I definitely
would do a couple more layers of the newspaper you also are going to want to
let it dry it takes about 1 to 2 hours and it can go a little bit faster if you
put it in front of a fan or heater and once that first newspaper layer has
dried you can go on to your final layer which is using the white paper I also
have some brown paper that I received in packages which also works and gives it a
cool different pattern
and then I just let that dry overnight in front of a heater and voila you have
your own DIY playground for your hamster so yeah guys I hope you guys enjoyed
this video thank you for watching bye