We want to see your homemade toys!

[nkrbkr]

Those are great, nkrbkr!

Thank you!

 

[IlexCassine]

This is a playground that my husband built for my Ekkie (no I don’t shove my ekkie in the closet we just moved so everything is everywhere). We used PVC piping, and vet wrap. We also screwed in a few hooks to hang toys, and the swing. It costed maybe $20. It was easy, and my Ekkie loves to climb all around this playground. I know that this post was for homemade toys not a playground but just encase someone wants something fairly easy, and cheap to make.

You just solved a problem for me! I made a PVC playground for my Amazon a while back but I didn't make steps between the levels, thinking he would learn to use a rope ladder. He's refused to go near it and doesn't like the stand because he's bored stuck on one level. I was overcomplicating it in my mind trying to think how to make a perfectly measured ladder out of PVC when all I needed to do was make the "staircase" of little horizontal steps!

 

[IlexCassine]

I thought I'd add another toy to bump the thread

Both my smaller birds (Lovebirds & Conures) and larger birds (Pionus, Amazons, Greys) went to town on this.
I used 12 strands of Sisal rope hung from a wood base, 76 pine wood slices (dyed with food grade food colours), pony beads and Balsa letters at the bottom.


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Sorry if you've already answered this elsewhere, but do you dye all the components yourself or buy them premade somewhere? What's the process on that, and can you recommend sources for safe base materials? I used to use sisal rope from the craft store, and then saw something on the Bird Tricks website saying it's unsafe because it might be sprayed with toxic preservatives, but they didn't suggest alternative sources so I'm stuck. Ditto all other kinds of toy building materials. Would love recommendations!

 

[DonnaBudgie]

Thats a gorgeous toy. Do you think the parrots care about the colors? Would they like and use and destroy just as much if the wood pieces were not dyed?