In order for the fluffy to live comfortably and have fun, his cage should have everything you need. This includes not only food and water, but also various interior items. Pet stores sometimes break sky-high prices, so not everyone has the opportunity to provide a small miracle with toys. Therefore, we will tell you what you can make for your hamster with your own hands, using things that seem unnecessary at first glance.

What things can be crafted?

In general, anything can be created for a hamster from improvised materials. The main thing here is ingenuity, desire and accuracy. Things for a pet can be made from a variety of materials, so they will cost almost free.

Here are some crafts for hamsters with your own hands you can build:

1. The cage is temporary and permanent. For construction, you will need a fine metal mesh and wood for the frame.
2. Drinker. It is easy to make from a ballpoint pen and a small plastic bottle.
3. House. Any materials are suitable for building a shelter.
4. Sports equipment: ladders, climbing frames, slides, running wheel.
5. Entertainment: pipes for hamsters and their interlacing (mazes), a walking ball, swings and other attractions. You can create an entire hamster park with your own hands, if the size of the living space allows.
6. Furniture: Various hammocks, lockers, bins and even a hamster toilet!

The list can be continued for a long time, because the human fantasy is endless. And if you have young advisers and masters, then soon the pet's home will be completely transformed! But when creating things, remember that they must be safe for the hamster.

What to build from?

The material is very important. If the furniture is built from toxic substances, the hamster will develop asthma attacks or allergies. Therefore, try to minimize the use of strong-smelling adhesives like Moment.

So, here is what is suitable for construction:

• wood and plywood;
• non-toxic plastic (water bottles, food containers);
• glass and ceramic objects.
• household waste: ice cream sticks, caps from 5-liter bottles, packing boxes, cardboard sleeves, old toys and other rubbish.

Tools are selected individually depending on the complexity of the work. It is better to fasten parts with carnations, a stapler, PVA glue, adhesive tape or electrical tape. In extreme cases, you can use superglue, but in those places that the homa cannot gnaw.

When children take part in the process, they want to color everything. Explain to the children that it is better not to use gouache for this purpose, because it will stain the bedding and fur of the animal. A good alternative would be water-based paint, wax crayons, or alcohol-based markers.

A Few Ideas

All hamsters love to have fun on the rides. We'll show you how to make some of them. Especially small animals like to ride downhill, run up ladders and explore labyrinths. We will start with them.

Slide

Although hamsters and cowards, but many of them willingly ride down the hill. Learn tips on how to make a hamster slide and make your pet's dream come true!

The best materials for making this attraction are plastic and wood. But the wooden surface must be well polished, otherwise the hamster will not slide down the hill, and he can also put his paws. Here are ideas for making this thing:

• Straight slide made of wood. Do you have a small smooth wooden plank? The desired length is about 20 cm, and the width is 10. Just place it at an angle of 30º to the floor - and you can roll the fluffy. This is a temporary structure, designed to play with a pet outside the cage.
• A mound of ducks. If your kids have ducks (such short skis), they are perfect for pet play. One ski should be taped to any support, pointing the rounded toe down, it will ensure a smooth landing on the floor.
• Old toys. Many children have puppet water parks at home. They will willingly share a slide with a hamster, because it is more fun to play with an animal than with soulless toys.
• Shampoo bottle. If you still have cylindrical cosmetic bottles, cut off both ends of them, and cut the bottle itself lengthwise into 2 parts. From wood, make a ladder with a support. You can also prepare a place for landing. Then it remains only to install a half of the bottle and roll a furry friend.

In the latter case, it is not necessary to use a bottle - it is rather an option for the Syrians. For small jungars, you can build a PVC slide by taking the outer sheath of a garden hose. This is how it will look like:

The pet will climb the stairs to the second floor of the cage, it can also be used to create an obstacle course. It can be straight or curved. You can make the following types of ladders for a hamster with your own hands:

1. From sushi sticks. Bearing rails are made from long sticks, and short crossbars are glued to them.
2. Ladder ladder. It is done very easily: transverse rails are glued to a solid wooden plank, which act as steps.
3. From twigs and wire. It is necessary to pick up branches with a diameter of 1 cm and alternately connect them at both ends with a wire. Such a ladder is good because it easily turns into a bridge!
4. From a broken running wheel. Cheap wheels often break, but they can be given a second life! To do this, carefully cut off the back wall with a knife. Get a circle with slats. And now just open the wheel by making 2 cuts on the circles. The resulting ladder can be given an interesting shape, because cheap plastic bends perfectly.

A ladder from a running wheel can also be used as a bridge or an element of an obstacle course.

Building an amusement park!

If you have a free aquarium, you can build a hamster park with your own hands. This will not be a residential area, but an entertainment room, and a wide variety of attractions can be placed there. Here is what should be there:

• a running wheel (it can be easily made using a bearing from a drive and thick cardboard);
• pipes and labyrinths (from cardboard bushings or plastic bottles);
• bridges and ladders made of wood or plastic;
• recreation room with multiple entrances.

If there is space left, put a swing for your pet, hang a hammock. In order for the homa to be in the rest room for a large amount of time, a drinking bowl and a bowl of food are also needed. You can also make them yourself or move them out of the cage for a while.

And one more important point: in a permanent rest room, just like in a cage, there must be a filler. In it, too, you will periodically have to tidy up, change the litter and wash all the toys. Only then the rest of the pet will become not only pleasant, but also safe.

Thus, you can make absolutely all the toys for the hamster yourself. This will save a lot of money, bring pleasure to you and your kids. The hamster will be happy to receive toys made by the owner's caring hands. Of course, some homemade attractions are short-lived, but they are done very quickly, this makes it possible to often pamper your pet with new things.

Then you need to provide your pet with interesting activities, both in the cage and outside it - on the playground.

Go to a pet store and check out the section that sells hamster supplies. You will see a wide variety of toys and entertainment equipment. You'll find wooden molds with holes for the Syrian hamster, balls of grass and bamboo, and grass tunnels for the hamster to hide and chew on, as well as colorful cars, shoes, trucks, and planes that the hamster can climb on or crawl into. The question arises: with such wealth, how to choose what your hamster will like? Will a golden hamster climb stairs or swing on a swing, go to a prefabricated or grassy tunnel, a rocket or a plane? Unfortunately, it is impossible to predict for sure which toys he will like and which he will not. But fortunately, hamster toys are usually not very expensive, so a toy rejected by your pet won't hurt your budget too much.

Keep in mind that all animals are very different. For example, Goldn loves variety in her life and can very quickly lose interest in a toy she has already explored hundreds of times. Even the best toys can become boring if played for too long. (Don't we?) So constantly offer new toys to your pet, remove old ones and put them back after a while. Or combine and rearrange old toys, spreading them in a new way. That is, do whatever you want, if only your hamster would be interested in life.

And don't forget to inspect your toys regularly. Check if they have become unusable, if they are gnawed. Feel free to throw away any toys that are too chewy if you think they are not safe for your hamster's health.

Spin, spin, wheel...

The first thing you'll notice on pet store shelves is the abundance of hamster wheels. Almost all hamsters are happy to run on the wheel, no training is required here. Look back at "Working on the Wheel" in Chapter 5 to help you decide which wheel is right for you and remember information about how to use it and the problems that come with it.

Tubes and tunnels

Please note that there cannot be too many tubes and tunnels. Indeed, in the wild, hamsters spend their swap days hiding and sleeping in the labyrinth of underground tunnels. So if you don't have a cage system with bonding tubes, it might be a good idea to set up an obstacle course in the playground. Attach straight and right-angled plastic tubing to spigots, tees, and six-hole cubes to create an interesting maze. Fortunately, you do not need to purchase everything at once, you can attach such a labyrinth, in parts. And to make Goldn always interesting, rearrange the sections more often, creating new configurations.

There is a unique set of tunnels that may be of interest to both young and adult hamster owners. This is the Critter Trail Puzzle Playground, a set of plastic items to build a variety of playgrounds, big enough for your furry friend to move around. Putting together frames, clear plates, passages, rings, tubes and descents will provide the whole family with a fun activity for the whole evening. (By the way, it is much more convenient to assemble this complex structure on a hard surface, such as a kitchen table.) This system (Puzzle Playground) can be equipped with both a cage and a playground.

Up, up, up!

Hamsters have fairly strong paws, despite their small size. This muscular strength makes them natural climbers. Therefore, give the hamster the opportunity to climb something. In the pet store you can buy a small wooden ladder for him, prefabricated cubes, low gymnastic equipment for birds, playgrounds for hamsters and Gym Vag - rope ladders, arches and spiral tunnels. Tree twigs can also be used (see "Tooth Sharpeners" in Chapter 3 for a list of suitable tree flogs for our pet). But if the branches in your backyard are contaminated with bugs, pesticides, fungicides (fungicides), car exhaust or road salt, then you're better off buying eco-friendly items from the pet store.

Who climbs up must inevitably go down, and in the case of hamsters, this is usually accompanied by falls. Although golden hamsters climb confidently up, they have difficulty coordinating when descending. Often hamsters deliberately fall down from a height, and do not get off. This is not much of a problem in its natural habitat, where a falling hamster lands on a soft sandy surface. But if your pet falls in a cage or on a playground, on a hard floor, his fall can be associated with serious injury. Unfortunately, broken legs, pelvic girdle or spine are not uncommon in hamsters that have fallen, even from a small height. Therefore, when choosing equipment for climbing, you must adhere to the main rule: it should not be high. If a hamster can't climb high, it can't fall!

If your hamster has fallen from a height and you notice that he is limping, hiding, or behaving unusually, call your veterinarian right away. Otherwise, your pet may die!!!

Down, down, down!

Hamsters are not only agile climbers, they are also masters of digging. There are special attachments for this that your hamster may like. Buy a special cage section like S.A.M: Tunnel-Vue, or a small extra cage section that can be turned into a digging tank. Then, to give your hamster something to dig for, fill them with soft bedding such as aspen shavings or CareFRESH.

Why not put Goldn on the playground with a container of sand? Buy a cheap, plastic, deep bowl or food storage box and a bag of sand. Pour it into the container to the middle. Put your hamster in there and let him dig as much as he wants. A few pre-buried treats or sunflower seeds will turn simple digging into a treasure hunt.

Let's swing on the swings

Most hamsters are big fans of rocking up and down on metal or wooden swings or inside a plastic tube. Of course, he will have to swing himself, because there will be no second hamster on the other side of the swing. So he usually runs from one side of the swing to the other... over and over and over. Some hamsters do without assistance when they want to rock. But if Goldn doesn't move so fast in a plastic tube or on a swing, here's what to do. Take small pieces of her favorite treat and place them in the middle of the swing. A smear of rutri-Cal or Toob Snax will help keep them in place. When Goldn climbs onto the swing to get a treat, her weight will throw her off balance and she will feel how they work. Keep putting in treats daily until Goldn gets the hang of it and starts using the toy for no reward.

Homemade toys for hamsters

Making toys for a hamster at home. Keeps your child busy on a rainy Saturday afternoon. For starters, how about a play box for your pet? All you need is scissors and a small, bad cardboard box. Cut a few holes in it the size of a hamster, and here you have a box for Goldn. Instead, you can make an underground bunker by cutting two holes in the lid of the box and burying it in the cage bed so that only the holes are visible. Your pet now has a camouflaged hole to hide in.

Hamsters love mazes. Have the children connect brown paper tubes, shoe boxes, various shapes of plastic jars, bottles, grain boxes, short PVC tubes, and cylindrical oatmeal containers together. This will be an exciting activity for children, and in its finished form - a puzzle for Goldn. Set up the maze in the playground or arena and watch Goldn play. Have a lot of fun!

Hamsters are extremely mobile, active rodents that have a good appetite. They must burn as many calories as possible so as not to earn serious health problems. By buying or making toys for hamsters with your own hands, you diversify his leisure time and ensure a long, happy life.

Of course, the easiest way to purchase finished products in a special store. You don’t have to mess around, and the choice of models there will certainly be impressive. But does it make sense to spend money on simple toys that you can make yourself? Keep in mind that this is a highly specialized product and the cheapest toys will cost no less than the hamster itself.

Therefore, in the store it is better to buy only such goods that you cannot make yourself. For example, a special ball for a hamster would be a good purchase. Having put your pet there, you can safely lower it to the floor and go about your business or even leave home. The rodent will be happy to run around the apartment, burning extra calories and learning more about his home. At the same time, nothing threatens him - a cat or a dog will not get to him, and the hamster himself will not run away anywhere, will not get stuck in the insides of the refrigerator, will not die from an electric discharge received from a gnawed cable.

With a stretch, a wheel can also be called a useful toy - it can be made, but this is a more complex process that requires the use of special parts. This is generally an indispensable thing if you cannot purchase a ball for some reason. Installed in a cage, it will allow the hamster to run all day (and sometimes the whole night), burning extra calories and maintaining excellent physical shape.

That, perhaps, is all. All other toys can be made on your own, using items that are usually sent to the bin without hesitation. The main thing is to show imagination and work a little with your hands.

DIY toys for hamsters

This craft will be of particular interest to children. Well, if the parents support them in this endeavor, then this will further strengthen the family, allow everyone to get unforgettable feelings and just the maximum of positive together. So, how to make a toy for a hamster with your own hands? The choice here is simply huge - you can transform a variety of objects beyond recognition. So let's get started!

From walnut shells

Many do not even guess, but using nutshells, you can make a toy that will bring a lot of pleasure to both the hamster and its owners.

For this you will need:

• 3 walnuts;
• thick, strong thread;
• drill with a thin drill.

All work takes a few minutes:

1. Carefully split the nuts in half - the easiest way is to insert a knife or screwdriver into the gap between the shells and turn. Remove the insides and partitions.
2. Carefully drill a small hole in the middle of the nut.
3. Pass a thread through the holes in the shells to get a kind of beads.

That's all - the toys are ready. Now put some treats in each half of the nut and hang the "beads" in the hamster's cage so that he can easily reach the bottom shell. You will see with what pleasure the rodent climbs on his new toy, pulling out his favorite food from it.

From a toilet paper roll

What do most people do with a cardboard sleeve when it runs out of toilet paper? That's right, throw it away. But from it you can make wonderful toys for hamsters with your own hands. True, for a long time they will occupy only representatives of not too large breeds - for example, the Dzungarian ones. The Syrians, on the other hand, will tear thick cardboard too quickly.

In addition to the roller itself, you only need scissors.

1. Cut the sleeve into rings 2-2.5 centimeters thick.
2. Insert one ring into another, the resulting design into the third, and so on - use five rings in total to form a tight ball with small gaps.
3. Stick a piece of carrot, apple, or other hamster's favorite treat inside and give the toy to him.

Most rodents with great pleasure fiddling with a new toy, trying to get food and delighting young spectators.

Minks and "diggers"

In nature, hamsters live in burrows, so they love to dig in the ground. Alas, in a cage such an opportunity cannot be provided. But you can make a good substitution.

For example, having poured a thick layer of sawdust on the floor, bury a small box of products - cookies or waffles - in them by making a small hole in the lid. Hamsters like to hide in such a makeshift hole even more than in an ordinary house.

Do you want to give your pet the opportunity to dig in the ground? Take ordinary river sand - fine and clean. Rinse it several times to remove dust and let it dry completely, stirring occasionally. Pour it into a bowl with high edges and place in a cage. The hamster will happily dig in dry, clean sand. And if you bury a few grains of peanuts in it, then this action will take him for many hours.

Making a ladder

Many hamsters are very fond of various ladders that you can climb up and down. Please your pet and make for him such a decor element from wooden ice cream sticks. In addition, this will allow you to combine business with pleasure - after all, ice cream cannot be thrown away, it will have to be eaten.

For work you will need:

• Popsicle sticks - take an arbitrary quantity, the length of the future bridge depends on it.
• Glue. The main thing is to make sure that it is not toxic - suddenly the hamster decides to gnaw on the stairs and swallow a piece of glue.

The sticks need to be prepared accordingly - rinsed from the remnants of ice cream. The best way to do this is by soaking in warm water for a few hours, then wiping with a soft cloth and drying.

After that, you can get to work.

1. Coat one side of the stick with glue.
2. Attach other sticks to it, leaving a gap of 2-3 millimeters between them.
3. When the "bearing" stick runs out, glue a new one to the transverse "steps" and continue working until you get a ladder of the desired length.

Now let the glue dry completely and install a new toy in a cage, leaning on some object - for example, a house. You will be surprised how much fun homemade toys for hamsters will bring to your pet.

Playground

Do you want to equip a whole area for a hamster? Great solution! It will be problematic to do this in a cage, but an empty table is quite suitable. You can also arrange it in the corner of the room, where the platform will not interfere with anyone.

Glue cardboard (you can take the usual corrugated from boxes from the store) high enough walls and place on the floor so that the hamster cannot run away anywhere. Make sure that they are firmly standing so that the rodent cannot knock them over.

It remains only to install wheels, sand bowls, ladders and many other toys on the site. Show a little imagination and think of what toys you can make in addition to the existing ones. Now you can let your beloved rodent go to a hamster amusement park for at least a whole day - he will surely like it here, he will have fun all day, which will positively affect his health and life expectancy.

Hamsters are very mobile and active animals. They need daily physical training - this is one of the building blocks of the foundation of your pet's health. For such training, provide your pet with sports equipment. Previously, we considered and . In this article we will look at how to make a ladder for a hamster with your own hands. The ladder will be made of wood and is also suitable for other small animals, such as guinea pigs, and even parrots. Completing the task will be simple, and step-by-step instructions with photos will make your work even easier.

Materials needed to make a hamster ladder

To make a wooden hamster ladder you will need:

• non-toxic wood glue (for example, PVA);
• 4 wooden barbecue sticks or any other suitable size (9 × 4 × 365 mm - approximate dimensions);
• pencil;
• sharp knife;
• ruler.

Step-by-step instructions on how to make a ladder for a hamster with your own hands

Step 1

Take 4 barbecue sticks and cut off the pointed ends with a sharp knife.

Step 2

Now take two cut sticks and cut each into 4 pieces of equal length, use a sharp knife, pencil and ruler for this. You should have 8 identical pieces.

Step 3

Now all you have to do is: mark 2 long sticks into 8 equal pieces each (don't cut them off). Then glue 8 previously prepared short wooden parts to two long sticks along the marked lines.

Step 4

Take a break. After gluing the sticks, you will have to wait about an hour for the glue to dry. After the final hardening of the glue, a wooden ladder for a hamster made by yourself can be considered finished. Now your pet will be happy.

Another option is how to make a ladder for a hamster with your own hands

Find a piece of wooden board that matches the dimensions of the future stairs (ramp) for the hamster. The surface should be well processed and free of burrs - this will protect your pet from getting injured. A parquet board or laminate is well suited for these purposes.

Take a small wooden slat, thin bamboo split in two is ideal, and cut into pieces the width of a wooden board.

Hamsters are very playful animals, however, they lead a somewhat “strange” lifestyle: they usually sleep during the day, but with the onset of the evening they are ready to have fun and play with a vengeance.

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Workshops on making toys

In order for your "fluffy" not to be sad, it is not at all necessary to buy expensive toys for him, all the things for a pleasant pastime of a hamster, with which he will play with pleasure, can be done independently, with your own hands.

Homemade ladder

Very often, hamsters gnaw through the wheel in the form of a lattice. But after that, you should not rush to throw it away - it will make an excellent staircase that you can make with your own hands.

The extra spokes are cut off on the sides of the wheel, then the ring opens and the crossbars are cut off through one. Using a lighter, the middle of the former wheel is slightly melted to such an extent that a arched bridge is obtained. The edges of the stairs are also heated over an open fire and folded over like hooks so that the item can be easily hung in the cage.

Tunnel

Hamsters love to climb in narrow spaces. A homemade tunnel can be made with your own hands from wood or even from ordinary durable cardboard and electrical tape.

The cardboard is bent into a tube of such a diameter that a hamster can freely crawl into it. In order for this tube to hold, its edges are glued with electrical tape. It is better to fix the resulting tunnel with electrical tape at the bottom; it was convenient to wade through it.

two-storey house

To create a house, you will need plywood made of wood, preferably poplar. The dimensions of the roof will be 25 by 12 cm, the walls will be 10 by 10 cm, except for the back, which will be 25 by 10 cm.

A hole is made in the first sidewall, and an opening for the valve is outlined on the second and back. Now blanks are cut out according to the marked material and glued together. We fix the roof and turn over the created structure. From the inside, we mark out places for future rails and glue them.

To create a second floor, a hole is made in the roof and a smaller box glued from the same plywood is placed.

Labyrinth and obstacles

An obstacle maze can become one of the most entertaining and longest entertainment for a pet, a place where he can play. And to make it is quite simple. Along the way, it is better to lay out not only obstacles, but also delicious treats.

To create a labyrinth with your own hands, you will need a decent-sized cardboard box, paper with a beautiful ornament, wooden borders, a measuring ruler, glue, and scissors.

You can not use special glue "Moment" for the manufacture of toys and houses. From it, the animal may begin health problems.

The walls will be about 15 cm, just enough so that the hamster does not climb over them. It is at this level that we cut off the box from above, and then we make one exit. For beauty from the inside, it is better to paste over the structure with decorative paper.

Now you need to make the inner walls of the labyrinth from curbs or plywood. To fix them, it is better not to use PVA glue, since in this case the hamster can simply break the walls while running around. Obstacles can be small slides made of the same plywood or tunnels in the form of twisted cardboard. We must wait until the glue dries and spread delicious treats for the hamster in different parts of the structure so that he more willingly explores the entire maze and eventually finds a way out of it.

Homemade toys from waste

Even real garbage can be taken as starting materials for toys. The main thing is the quality of the workmanship of the product, so that the hamster becomes interested in it and does not break it when it starts playing there for the first time.

Walnut shell toy

To create such a toy, you need several walnut shells and a thread of the length that the resulting thing should be. Instead of a thread, a thin strong rope is suitable.

Next, you need to take a hammer and a nail, with the help of which a hole is made in all the shells. The shell of walnuts has a structure that allows you to easily punch a hole in it and at the same time it will not break into pieces. It is advisable that an adult deal with this matter, otherwise a child who decides to make a toy for a hamster may accidentally hit his finger with a hammer. A thread is threaded through the punched holes until all the shells fit on it. In this case, it is better to make sure that the thread is clogged tightly enough and does not hang out too freely. To prevent the shell from moving off the rope, a washer is fixed at one end of it, and the other end is tied at the top of the cage.

In order for the pet to start playing sooner, you can put his favorite treats inside the shells. Such a little thing performs three useful functions at once: it allows the hamster to grind its claws, develops intelligence and simply helps to kill time.

Wooden toys

First of all, you need to take a block of wood and cut out a blank of suitable sizes from it, about 12 by 8 cm. The surface of the future toy is processed with sandpaper, and the edges are rounded so that the hamster does not get hurt.

A pair of recesses is made with a pen drill about half the thickness of the workpiece. Next, two squares of plywood are cut, which will be large enough to close the created recesses. Their corners are also rounded and with the help of screws the squares are attached to the main workpiece. At the same time, they should open and close so that the hamster can move them with moderate effort. And he will need to open these recesses in order to find delicious food there. An excellent toy that simultaneously develops the thinking of a pet and gives him the opportunity to exercise well.

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