hey everyone it's riley in this video i'm going to show you how to make five diy hamster toys
all these are pretty simple to make and i tried to come up with
ideas that i haven't really seen people make before so let's jump into the video
this first toy is a hanging toy and it's a little bit more involved so i put it first
to just get out of the way you're going to need some thicker paper like cardstock or brown paper
toilet paper a cube template you can easily get a cube template off Google and just print it out
string a pencil scissors or a knife to cut out your paper you might also need a needle since
you're going to be threading these cubes that you make onto the string that will make sense
later you're also going to need some glue and your hamster's seed mix the first thing you're
going to do is you're going to trace out your cube template onto your paper i made four cubes
in total you can make more or less depending on how long you want your hanging toy to be
now all you're going to do is of course just cut those shapes out and then you can go on
to the next step before we glue up the cube and make it into a 3d shape we've got to pre-fold it
so basically just fold everything towards the center of the
shape and follow the guidelines on the template it will show you where to fold it's pretty easy
the next step is assembling and gluing the cube so basically you're just going
to put glue on the tabs and fold it all together but leave one of the sides open
sort of like a lid so that you can put hamster food inside of the cube
once the glue is mostly dry you're just going to put your hamster food onto the toilet paper
wrap it up and put it inside of each one of the boxes now you can just go ahead and glue the
lid onto the cube and make sure all the glue is fully dried before you move on to the next step
so using your pencil you're going to stab a small hole on the opposite side of each cube make sure
you go easy on this because my cubes were starting to cave in there's your incentive to make this toy
because mine ended up a little bit lopsided and i'm sure you can do way better than me
now you're gonna grab a length of string i think mine was around 30 inches long it just depends on
how long you want it to be keep knotting the end of that string until you get a really big knot
and it's big enough so that it won't slip through the hole you punched in the cube here's where the
needle comes in handy you're going to be threading each one of the cubes onto the string sort of like
beads and the needle just makes your job a lot easier if you don't have the needle like me just
tape the end of your string and that should make your job easier as well so just keep threading
those cubes onto the string until you run out of cubes and that's basically the hamster toy
this next toy is by far the easiest out of all five all you're going to need is a toilet paper
tube scissors and your hamster's seed mix the first thing you're going to do is you're
going to cut a two and a half inch section off of your toilet paper tube to work with
and you're going to press in on the center of the edges to create this inverted arch shape
then you're just gonna flip that toilet paper tube over and fill it with a little bit of hamster food
and fold up the bottom the exact same way that you did the top and then you're gonna cut a very
thin strip of a toilet paper tube and slip it over that cardboard structure that you just made
and you're done i ended up making a ton of these just because they are so easy and quick to make
for the next diy you're going to need some cardboard a knife and scissors to cut
a pencil glue and your hamster's seed mix so first what you're going to do is make a rectangle under
your cardboard however big or small you want and then draw a slightly smaller rectangle on
the inside of it cut this out and cut out that rectangle on the center of it so that
the center is empty i traced this three more times to make a total of four of these pieces
so now tracing one of the shapes that you just made you're going to make two more rectangles
except this time you're not going to cut out the centers for the second rectangle you cut
out you're going to cut that down the middle and give each one of those smaller rectangles an
arch shape and then you are completely done cutting cardboard for the rest of this project
the next step is just assembling and gluing up the hamster toy so you're making a sort of box
so just take that base piece that you made and put some glue around the edges and then you're
just going to keep layering on those rectangle pieces that have the hole cut out of the center
once the glue has dried for a little bit you can put the hamster food inside of the box and then
just glue these two top little arch pieces onto the sides of the box to close it all up the reason
i cut arches into my pieces was just because my hamster needs a kind of head start to get to the
food because he is lazy and doesn't like working super hard for his food so that is the hamster toy
this next boredom breaker is another hanging toy and Crookshanks really
liked it you're gonna need five pieces that are all the same size
of this really thick cardboard i'm not exactly sure what it's called you're also going to need
these woven ball bird toys the link for these is in the description below i got them off Amazon
you'll also need scissors string and a pencil but i forgot to show that the first thing you're
going to do is just peel off the top layer only of all these pieces of this really thick
cardboard and it kind of has a honeycomb pattern underneath which looks pretty cool
using the pencil you're just going to stab a hole
right in the center of all these pieces of cardboard
now you're going to get a length of string and i think mine was around 30 inches long but it
really just depends on how long you want it to be and you're going to tie this onto the bird toy
and now all that's left to do is just string on a piece of cardboard and
then another wicker ball and just keep alternating until you run out of both
just make sure when you add the cardboard pieces on that you're adding it with the
exposed side facing up so that when you hang up this toy in the cage you can put some
hamster food inside of the cardboard and it makes an amazing foraging toy
after you've done that the hamster toy is done and personally this is my favorite out of the
whole video because i just really like the way that it looks for this last diy you're going to
need this really thick cardboard again as well as scissors or a knife to cut it out
a pencil and you're also going to need a willow stick so you're going to start off by tracing
four circles onto this really thick piece of cardboard i alternated in size so i started
off making big circles and then i slightly got smaller and smaller i had to cut these out off
camera because they are just so awkward to cut out in general since the cardboard's so
thick then you're just going to peel off the top layer of cardboard on all of the circles
the last step for this diy is stabbing a hole right in the middle of each of these circles
and skewering them onto the stick so make sure that like the last diy the exposed side of the
cardboard is facing up because you're going to be propping this up in your cage sort of like a
christmas tree i guess that's what this toy reminds me of sort of like a pine tree and
you get to sprinkle some treats inside of the cardboard and your hamster can forage for it
and this is the final hamster toy so Crookshanks actually ended up playing with this a couple days
after i left it in his cage he took a pretty good chunk out of it as you can see here
unfortunately i don't have any footage of him actually chewing it up because he decided to
destroy it while i was sleeping but i do have some footage of him destroying this toy right here
he liked this toy the best and was the only other hamster toy that i made that he played with
so i guess at least he liked some of them it was really cute to watch him swing around on
this but eventually i felt kind of bad for him and i lowered the toy so that he
wouldn't swing around on it too much or hurt himself but he was so cute playing with it
so i think that's going to be about it for today's video thank you so
much for watching and i hope that you enjoyed it
and of course if you decide to make any of these diys let me know down in the comments