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We love our kitty cats; they deserve the world, they’re puuuurfect! And you can bring them joy and fun with your very own DIY cat toy!
Making a homemade cat toy isn’t as daunting or tacky as it may sound. In fact, we have pulled together some amazing, cost-friendly, and repurposed ways to give your cat super fun and sweet DIY cat toys they’ll be sure to love.
Here at Repurpose Junkie, we love to utilize items we have around the house and find a new purpose for them. Instead of chucking it in the trash, you can repurpose it and keep it from sitting in the landfill. Plus, who doesn’t love getting some arts and crafts time in? It’s good for the soul!
So, without further ado, let’s get cracking on some cattastic DIY cat toys!
DIY Cat Toy Supplies
For this fun-to-assemble and easy-to-do homemade cat toy, there are only 3 items on the supplies list. This DIY cat toy just got even better!
The main focus of this DIY is reusing fabric scraps that you don’t know what to do with but you’d feel guilty tossing them out. Ta-da! We can repurpose them!
In my case, I had made a few fleece tie blankets, and I had a lot of leftover scraps. But I loved the fabric so much I didn’t want to throw them out. So, I hung onto them, and now we have the perfect DIY for them.
- Fabric Scraps
- Fabric Scissors
- Ring/Embroidery Hoop Ring
If you don’t have an Embroidery Hoop that you aren’t using, you can always pop into the thrift store and poke around or use a makeshift item of your choice. You can get creative with it!
Homemade Cat Toy Steps
This fabulous DIY is brought to us by Craft Factory on YouTube! They have several fun cat toy ideas, but we loved this one below the best because you can repurpose old fabric scraps and give them a fun new life. Be sure to check out their video and see the other three awesome cat toy ideas!
Step One: Cut Fabric Into Strips
The first step is to cut your fabric into strips using your fabric scissors.
The length of your strips depends on how long you’d like the fabric to be on your cat’s toy. Cat’s do long a dangly frisky toy!
Just remember when you’re cutting the strips to keep in mind that you’ll need room to knot onto the hoop/ring.
The beauty of this DIY is that the lengths don’t have to be perfect, which is fantastic when you’re using fabric scraps!
You can also trim your fabric strips once they’re on your hoop/ring if the fabric seems too long.
You can even use the annoying advertisement fabric strips that are sometimes at the bottom of your fabric yard. Who would have thought you could repurpose that?!
Pro Tip: Any fabric you don’t use can be collected in a bag/jar/container and used later on for a sewing/knitting/crochet project that requires stuffing. Or, you can give it to a crafting buddy who does those sorts of projects (That’s what I do!).
Step Two: Tie Fabric Strips Onto the Ring/Hoop
After cutting your fabric strips, it’s time to tie the knot!
Get your fabric strips in order, switch off from one design to the next, and tie the strips around the embroidery hoop/ring.
A very simple knot will do just fine! You could double knot the fabric if you want to be extra safe or if your kitty really likes to whip their toy around.
Please be careful when you’re securing your knot so that you don’t tear your fabric.
Pop on a playlist or put Netflix on in the background while you tie the fabric strips around your ring; it’s actually pretty fun and relaxing!
After a couple of alternating turns of fabric strips, you’ll be finished with your adorable homemade cat toy!
Step Three: Give DIY Cat Toy to Your Kitty!
And now, the most enjoyable part of this DIY Cat Toy project is, of course, delivering the toy to your kitty.
They may be a little apprehensive at first and need to investigate, but watch them later on as they bat it around and fall in love with their new homemade cat toy.
DIY Cat Toys Ideas!
We hope you had fun putting together that adorable homemade cat toy above, and if you’re still feeling in the DIY cat toys spirit, we’ve got plenty more in store!
We’ve searched high and low for the best DIY cat toys, and these are the cream of the catnip. They’re simple to do, yet so effective with how much fun your kitty cat can have when you’re playing together. Get ready to dive into some cutesy and easy DIY cat toys!
Presented by Care.com, these 20 DIY cat toys are absolutely delightful. We love the creativity of repurposing materials that would otherwise be thrown away or recycled.
And we especially love item #13, DIY fork pom poms! How cute is that?
Brought to you by Catster (how fun is that name, by the way?!) are 25 homemade cat toys that are buzzing with potential cat fun! From cardboard cat tunnels to utilizing all those empty toilet paper rolls and wine corks, there are a lot of inspiring ideas here.
We encourage you to check out #6, No Sew Cat Toy, if you have leftover fabric scraps you want to repurpose. (I do! I do! I do!)
And last but not least, we have DIY cat toys from The Samantha Show! If your paper towels and toilet paper rolls are stacking up and you’d love a way to repurpose them, these are the DIY cat toys for you! There are a variety of easy ways you can utilize them to make an entertaining homemade cat toy.
The hanging feathers cat toy is at the top of our DIY cat toys wish list!
Repurposing items in the name of the love of cats has to be the best thing since catnip. We hope you enjoyed these fun DIY cat toy ideas and inspirations, and we especially hope your kitty cat has a ton of fun with their new homemade cat toy!
