The master class will teach you how to make a toy for a cat. In this case, you will use waste materials: cardboard, toilet paper rolls, pieces of fabric and even the remains of a sewer pipe.
If you know how to make a toy for a cat, you can please your pet with almost no expense.
How to make a toy for a cat out of cardboard or plastic with your own hands?
Cats are curious animals. They will be interested to know what is in the container.
Various containers can be used:
- plastic containers;
- plastic bottles;
- cardboard or wooden boxes.
If you have a spacious plastic container, make your pet happy by making a toy for it. You will need:
- container;
- scissors or clerical knife;
- rubber glue;
- marker;
- balloons;
- feed;
- small toys.
You can first draw circles on the box lid with a felt-tip pen, and only then cut them out with a convenient device.
Yes, indeed, so that the animal does not get hurt, you need to walk along the edges of the hole with a soldering iron, make them smoother.
If you decide to make a cat toy out of a cardboard box, use a not very high one. On the top, draw various geometric shapes so that the animal can push its paw through such holes, and you glue the parts of the box by putting cardboard jumpers between them.
If you are using a plastic container, then glue rubber glue to the bottom of the container. It is enough to make four drops in the corners. Then such a box will not slide on the floor.
Now put the treats and toys inside so that your beloved cat tries to get these things with his paw.
If your cat is on a diet, put some dry food in such a toy, the animal will gradually pull out the treat and will not be able to overeat when you are not at home.
DIY cat puzzles
Even sewer pipes are suitable for such toys. See how much the cat is having fun with such a toy.
To make a puzzle like this, take:
- plastic corner sewer pipes in the amount of 4 pieces, and with a diameter of 20 cm;
- marker;
- cambric or other plastic tube;
- electrical tape;
- knife.
On the narrower edges of the pipe, you need to wind electrical tape in several turns.
Use a marker to draw where the holes will be. As you can see, they can be not only at the top, but also on the side. Make these indentations, cut lengthwise with cambric or similar material, and finish the edges. Then the cat will not be able to hurt himself about them.
Here's how to make a toy of this type for a cat next. Connect the pipes to form a kind of rectangle. At the same time, insert the thinner ends with electrical tape into the wide ones. Put a ringing ball or other toy in the hole and please the animal.
And here is another interesting cat puzzle. You can glue toilet paper rolls, yogurt cups, egg containers, and other base fixtures with a glue gun. Put some dry food or small toys inside. The animal will try to reach them with its paw and thus find itself entertainment.
By the way, you can make other funny toys for cats from cardboard sleeves. Here are just a few examples.
How to make a toy for a cat from toilet paper rolls?
For such entertainment will do:
- paper bushings;
- cocktail straws;
- small pom-poms made of soft fabric.
You will also need a utility knife or small scissors and strong, cat-friendly glue. Using it, you need to attach pompons to one sleeve, and on the second, make a hole to fit the diameter of the straws and insert them into these slots.
Take one sleeve, flatten it slightly on one side. Here you will need to sew with a basting stitch, at the same time attaching the hind legs. You glue the front ones. Also glue or additionally secure the thread on the bottom of the frog made of cardboard by tying a knot. Glue a piece of cardboard to the back of the rope to hold it comfortably. Color these funny frogs and you will have another cat toy in your hands.
And if you have a large cardboard sleeve from paper towels or from foil, then poke holes on one side and glue feathers here. On the other hand, you will need to make 2 holes and tie the rope. Tie it up so that the cat, standing on its hind legs, can play with the feathers to its fullest.
And if you have both towel and toilet paper bushings, then make a movable cat out of them. These parts are connected using a strong thread, and the head can be made from a round blank of foam. It remains to glue here the nose, eyes for toys, mustache, ears and paint this cat.
Cats love all kinds of entertainment. The following toys will be soft and pleasant to the touch. To create such, you can use pieces of fabric left over from needlework, or just old things, having previously dismissed them.
Soft toys for cats - master class and photo
To do this, you will need to take:
- fleece rectangle;
- soft filler, for example, synthetic winterizer;
- threads;
- scissors.
Sew a rectangle of fabric on the wrong side of the sewing machine so that it joins the large opposite edges. Now turn the blank out onto the front side, fill it with filler. It is convenient to help yourself with some long thin object, for example, a skewer or a wooden skewer for a kebab. Bandage this toy so that its individual parts resemble sausages. Now look with what interest your beloved animal will play with them.
If he likes these felt toys, other inedible delicacies can be sewn for him from the leftover fabric. There can be a donut, hot dog, cheburek, sausage in dough, a piece of bacon.
Since real feathers are unlikely to become durable in the paws of a cat, we suggest cutting them out of thick fabric, for example, from a drape. Connect such feathers in pairs with a strong rope, tying here on a small ringing rattle.
You can make a similar entertainment from the remnants of the skin, the cat will certainly like this new toy.
If you still have kinder surprise packages, put some beads inside to make these containers jingle. From above it is necessary to sheathe them with soft fleece, turning these blanks into a kind of sweets. As soon as the cat starts wiggling their paw, the toys will make noise and delight her.
Even if you have a small piece of soft fabric left, you will turn it into a wonderful toy for an animal. To do this, you need to cut off the strip, roll it in half lengthwise, cut the long edge into segments, but not completely. Now fold the workpiece so that one edge protrudes slightly above the other. Start twisting this rose from the end. It remains to fluff it up.
Or, after cutting, you can unfold the workpiece so that the fringe is on the right and left. Then you will tie this toy up with a thread in the center.
If you want to play with a cat and at the same time feel like fishermen, then we suggest to sew such fish here.
Each consists of two identical blanks. They need to be sewn on the wrong side, leaving a small hole through which you turn the part onto your face. Now fill the fish with filler through it. Insert the rope here and sew on the hands with a blind stitch.
Sew on buttons instead of eyes and you can start fishing. Both animals and children will like this game at the same time.
And from the remnants of a drape or other dense fabric, you can sew more fish.
Fill paired blanks with filler, sew with a seam "over the edge", and insert feathers into the tail part. The eyes need to be embroidered.
If you have the time and desire, then you can use threads to make scales for fish, embroider their fishnet tail, and make fins.
Here are some beautiful toys for cats then turn out. But these little predators are not averse to feasting on not only fish, but also a mouse.
Each such rodent is sewn from three main parts. The two sides are the same. First you need to sew them, put them inside the filler and sew on the bottom from the same dense material. From the leftovers, you will make ears, it will remain to embroider the nose and eyes.
And if you cut a triangle out of the fabric, sew its edges, you get a kind of a cone. Fill it with filler through the hole, then sew the hole by inserting a tail-string here. Convert these funny animals into mice by sewing colored ears here.
How to make a cat toy from other materials?
You can use a variety of different ones. If you have wine corks, then wrap them with a rectangle tied from threads, and sew circles of drape or other dense material on the round ends.
Your pet will surely appreciate your efforts, and it can be a favorite toy. It would also be nice to attach a ringing bell here.
If you are at work, nobody can pet your pet at this time, make such a soft arch for him. Passing under it, he will feel that he has not been ignored and thus stroked his back.
You can hang a variety of objects. Cats will not be left without exercise when they try to reach them with their paws and stir them up.
And the next toy will become a talisman for the cat. To do this, wrap the thread around the hoop to create different sized triangles. Tie ropes to the bottom and attach large beads, pom-poms, bells and other small objects here. Also fix the thread from above, thanks to which you hang this amulet on the wall.
If you know how to knit, use this technique. But you can make the toy even more fun for the cat if you put a small container inside, for example, from a kinder surprise, in which there will be beads.
You can also make interesting things on the basis of wooden sticks. Here's how to make this kind of cat toy.
Cut into rectangles, stuff them with filler, and sew around the edges to make each into a small pillow. Insert along the thread and attach them. Tie the other ends of the threads to wooden sticks. Secure by tying or glueing.
You can also wrap a wooden stick with thread, and tie several ribbons to the free end, to which small metal bells are attached.
On one such rod, you can place pom-poms, figurines made of dense fabric, feathers, and bells.
You can simply cut thick fabric ribbons and tie them to a long stick. When you move it, the cat will certainly want to grab such a moving toy with its paw.
Even an ordinary ball will become entertaining material for a beloved animal. But to keep the threads from unraveling, tie each end to your own ball.
But so that your beloved pet does not exactly unwind the ball, you can knit a semblance of balls of thread.
These toys are the most durable.
These are the entertainments you can do with your own hands for your beloved pet.
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