DIY Ribbon Cat Toy
Do you find yourself looking at all the cat toys whenever you are in the store? We are always drawn toward the cat aisle and tempted to purchase new toys for our 3 cats. When we do buy a new toy, our 3 cats have it torn apart within a week. They love playing and we love playing with them. Emily, my 13 year old, decided to help me come up with a ribbon cat toy. She was the mastermind behind this one and put the entire thing together. She was excited to use the staple gun on her own!
This was a 10 minute project and didn’t cost us anything. We used an extra yard stick, scraps of ribbons and feathers that had fallen off their other toys. We did not color the yard stick because we didn’t want the cats to get paint chips in their mouth. Click here to see the Pet Craft: DIY Cat Snack Jar, too!
Materials Needed:
• Yard stick or ruler
• Staple gun or low temp glue gun
• Bowdabra® Bow Wire
• Bobbin Grosgrain
• Grosgrain ribbon
• Satin ribbon
• Meow, Puppy Love and So Sweet ribbons
• Feathers
Instructions:
1. Gather your supplies. The ribbons, feathers and Bowdabra Bow Wire were all various lengths from our ribbon box. Some where 6″ and other pieces were 16″.
DIY Ribbon Cat Toy
2. Use a staple gun or low temp glue gun to add the ribbon to the yard stick. Emily picked colors that she thought would work best. Since it is a pet toys she used pet patterned ribbons.
DIY Ribbon Cat Toy
DIY Ribbon Cat Toy
3. Aslan was on the table helping Emily put the toy together.
DIY Ribbon Cat Toy
DIY Ribbon Cat Toy
4. Play time for Baby Popcorn! The toy worked great low on the ground and high in the air.
DIY Ribbon Cat Toy
DIY Ribbon Cat Toy
DIY Ribbon Cat Toy
Do you make hair bows for your pets? If so, you can get more ideas from the Hair Bow Making CD. It has an entire chapter for making pet bows.
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Awww kitties love their feathers and strings, so this toy is perfect! We have 3 cats, and I recently tied some feathers to a ribbon for them–it’s fun watching them attack it like it’s a bird.
Other favorite toys: styrofoam peanuts, paper bags, laser. 
This is cute and easy! I would love for you to share it and others on my new blog hop Frugal “I Did It!” Tuesday. http://offthegridat-30.blogspot.ca/2012/07/frugal-i-did-it-tuesday-2.html
What a cute idea! I know my parents cats would adore this!
Fantastic toy for a cute cat! My cat is ginger too – I love ginger cats. Well – I love all cats
Thanks so much for sharing with Wednesdays Adorned From Above Link Party. My cat would love this. I was trying to sew the deck my couch yesterday, and she kept grabbing my waxed thread. I had to keep pushing her away.
Debi
Dangerous toy. Cats love to put ribbon in their mouths and once it goes in the mouth it’s probably going to go all the way down meaning the cat will swallow it. Unless this toy is used with 100% supervision it’s very dangerous. Many cats end up having emergency surgery because of swallowing yarn, ribbon and string.
Thanks for the warning notice, J. This is a toy that you use to play with your cat. We use it all the time. The string is on the stick and doesn’t come off for them to swallow. They sell similar toys in the store. So as any toy, use with your own caution and common sense.
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