Making new toys out of old

[Featheredsamurai]

For those of you that don't know I struggle to get Rosie to play with toys. She's just not a toy bird although I'm trying very hard to get her to play with something XD She prefers chewing on freshly cut eucalyptus branches/leaves and tearing up her foraging box to find goodies. Even though she ignores most of them I continue to buy her new toys in hopes of finding something she will like as well as adding to my toy rotation stock pile. Once I have enough I also plan to make her a cool toy out of empty paper towel rolls and toilet paper rolls since she likes chewing on them

Here's the toy I put together today.

Before
Plain old(ignored) bamboo pieces.

After
I've added a chunk of cuttle bone, finger traps(thanks to my safe bird store) random pieces of wood from toys she doesn't like to add separation, the bamboo pieces, and two parrot Hawaiian delight cookies I bought today. She doesn't like them but I'm fine with that, they add a interesting texture.

Here's a older toy I made for her, it was a coconut toy with ropes and blocks of wood(two of those blocks are included in the above toy).

 

[grassyfairy]

Wow! What a wonderful way to recycle old toys. I will have to remember this one. Thanks I'm sure it will save several$$$ for toys.

 

[JerseyWendy]

Beautifully and thoughtfully done! I bet Rosie will have a hard time resisting those.

 

[Featheredsamurai]

Beautifully and thoughtfully done! I bet Rosie will have a hard time resisting those.

She liked the second toy once she figured out it had pieces of walnuts and a couple nutriberrys inside lol First one.... so far she nibbled on the cuttle bone and pulled one piece of confetti out of a finger trap, other then that nothing lol

I'm almost jealous of one of my friends with conures, they demolish their toys. But at the same time I spend much less on toys lol

 

[mrgoogls]

wow nice! and just so you know, those wood disks in the first toy aren't bamboo, their yukka wood i have one for cooper, he destroyed the other one. lol. i dont even have to change those. but thats about the only toy he usues.haha. nice job!