Stuff to collect for hamster DIY projects - Add as You See Fit

[Catherine Spark]

- Cereal and delivery cardboard boxes (cutting tunnles out of, using as hidey places
- Cube tissue boxes (for sleeping areas)
http://www.foremostproducts.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/leather-tissue-box-cover.jpg
- Margarine tubs (homemade wheels)
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- Coffee jar lid (lid can be used as food bowl, jar can be used for food)
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- The famous toilet roll (all sorts of functions!)
- Storage bins (cages)
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- Cereal storage bin (food storage)
https://encrypted-tbn1.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTfc-mLzct940ri911SRDlmQIyuzq7iRQQXjn7Sd06Sey4I2J3h2A
- Baby milk scoops (food scoops)
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- Sticks (rope ladders and bridges)
- Wool (rope ladders and bridges, hanging toys)
- Key rings (rope ladders and bridges, hanging toys, hammocks)
- Rags (Hammocks, sleeping pouches)
- Interlocking storage cubes (play pens)
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- Whole nuts (chews)
- Please add as you see fit!

[kiania]

Ceramic flower pots make good clambering equipment. I also have a few pebbles and rocks in my tank in the chin sand area (good for wearing down toenails!).

[pinkneon]

Where do you get ceramic flower pots from?

[kiania]

I got my two from a garden centre. Took a while to find ones that were ceramic (lots are plastic) or stupid shapes (lots that are sort of cone-shaped, but with a flat end...rather than tapered cylinders). Can't remember if it was the local garden centre to where I was living, or Dobbies, but I'd imagine most garden centres would stock them.

[pinkneon]

Ok thanks. Don't think we have a garden center here ...

[kiania]

Google map link for all the garden centres in Sussex: garden centre sussex - Google Maps (http://goo.gl/maps/DUqa)

[bootsboy2]

Terracotta pots could make beds if you place them on their sides.
My cousin uses a glove in his cage and his dwarf sleeps in it.
Just get creative :D

[kiania]

That was the plan for mine, but they are far too open for Nimh...I put treats inside it instead :)

[bootsboy2]

Well, all of them are different loool.

[kiania]

She's a burrower. If her bed isn't pressed up against her on at least 5 sides, she isn't interested :)

[bootsboy2]

lol my hamster seems to be a burrower too, he wont chew on his chews so hes not a chewer lol. Hes still a baby so hes figuring out what he likes.

[RockinHammies]

wooden popsicle and coffee sticks, non toxic white glue, clean sand, large mugs, medium size ice cream tubs (with holes cut all through them - like a jungle gym), toilet paper rolls (I cut a slit down the middle as our syrian is large - that way she can go through and not get stuck lol), thin paper plates

[Jessie]

found this link. thought it was a great idea. anyone see any issues? DIY Hamster wheel -----LetusDIY.ORG|DIY Everything here (http://www.letusdiy.org/html/diy/diy_wanju/20080824/813_4.html)

[lucy1666]

ooo i have so many of this list i love it :D:D:D