Berivan's toy thread

Spider toy

Materials:

• Cardboard
• Toilet paper (unscented)
• Straws
• Shoelace or cotton rope

Instructions:

1. Take some cardboard and cut them into squares, putting a hole in the middle of every one.
2. Take some straws and cut them into different sizes.
3. Take some toilet paper, making sure it is unscented, and cut them into shapes (I made circles), putting a hole in the middle of each.
4. If you want the toy to be like a spider, this is very easy to do. Take shoelace (unused) or cotton rope and fold it in half. Take another strip and do the same; you now have four "spider legs." If you wish, you can add more "spider legs" but I stopped at four.
5. Now string the cardboard, straws, and toilet paper together. You can make a pattern or just string them at random. Tie the ends of the shoelace/cotton rope and you're finished

Note: All hand models are either my grandmas hand or my moms.






Berivan

A boing

Suppies You Will Need Are:
cotton rope - (lets use 10 feet – for a large boing for Amazon size birds)
wire - stainless steel would be best & if your bird chews you should probably consider using that (we’ll use 10.5 feet)
caps - for the top & bottom (you can use plastic ends for chair legs) drill 2 holes, the size of the wire
glue - (hot glue gun is best)
pliers – to bend the wire at the top & bottom

Make sure the ends of your rope are secured so it does not unravel on you.




You want to get the wire, up through the rope so that you can do the top end. Loosen the twist on the rope a little and insert wire and push through. Push it through one cap also.


Using pliers, bend the wire back, making a loop and put the end back into the cap. Leave enough sticking up to attach something to hang it up when you’re finished. Use the glue gun to partially fill the cap with glue and put the rope firmly into the cap. This picture shows the beginning of a toy added on top of the cap and if you want to have a toy here, put the wire through the toy before doubling it back down through the toy again & into the cap.

You can then trim the frayed ends of rope and are doing great with the BOING.

Now its time to wrap the rope around the wire. You do this with a twisting motion, you twist the natural weave of the rope to loosen it, like we did when first inserting the wire, and then you close the natural weave of the rope around the wire. You do this until your rope is all done....down to the end.
At this point, you are almost finished. The end of your rope looks much like the top end did. Cut any excess wire off that you won't need for finishing the end.
Think how you want to finish it. You will now probably need to loosen your rope on the wire a bit, so you can pull it down to the end of the wire and insert the end through, just like at the top. The bottom end is not as important as the top end because it doesn't need to hold the rope up in place. I often finish with the end caps so you put the wire through one hole in the end, bend it, and if you want a bell at the bottom put the bell on the wire now, and insert end back into cap. Again, you can glue your rope in the cap. This time I didn't use a cap, instead I used a large wooden ball. I thread some of the rope through the ball and the wire and made a loop in the wire to hold it. I then tied knots in many of the rope strands so the rope wouldn't untwist and put a few little babbles on some of the rope strands. Watch what length you leave the strands. You don't want this to become a dangerous toy for catching toes.
The only thing left to do now is to bend your Boing into the shape you desire and finish any toys you may have put on the Boing.

Just to give you guys ideas here are other
bird toys other people made from other sites....

All below are from talkparrotlets.com







Berivan

P.S. permission was recieved from maker