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Rabbit toy making and enrichment activities.

lottielouise

Wise Old Thumper
As part of the challenge I have offered to maintain this thread.

The idea is that you post your tutorials ( video or slideshows) on how to make your toys, or how to enrich your bunnies lives and make it more interesting. there are lots of easy things that we can do

Please post links to them on this thread, with a brief description. I will then organised them and create a list catergorising them for easy use on this first thread.

Toys

Toilet roll Ball 1
Toilet roll Ball 2
Hay Tube
Tissue Box toy
Forage box 1
Treat Rattle
Paper ball
Cardboard tunnel
Apple stick dangler
Repurposed toys ( other pets toys/childrens toys suitable for buns)
 
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You will need-
1 toilet roll tube
some treats

1. Fold in one end of the toilet role tube, so that the end is closed off amd treats wont fall out !

2 Add in a few treats - i have used woodlands carrot treats
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3. Close in the other end of the tube making sure the treats wont come out !
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You will need-
1 Box (I have used a beer box)
scissors
Hay
Treats/herbs

1 Cut the flaps off one side of the box
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2. Fill the box with your bunnies favourite hay !
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3 Add your treats or Herbs- i have used some woodlands carrot treats
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So I call this... the newspaper treat ball and it's really simple. ;)

You will need:

newspaper
grass
hay
treats of choice (I used fenugreek crunchies)

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Lay down a page of newspaper flat and place hay and grass on top:
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I then broke up the fenugreek crunchies, it's up to you whether you want to do this but with me having a dental bun, I broke them up into smaller pieces:
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and then mixed them into the grass and hay:
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Then you scrunch up the newspaper:
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In the end it should look something like this:
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and you're done! I'll be giving mine to the buns when they get home tomorrow. :love:
 
Loo roll tube and dried rose petals
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Put the petals in the middle
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And fresh farm hay either side
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Tada!
 
Tunnel... thing :lol:

ok so I got a cardboard trangle prism.
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cut off the ends and took the tape off

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put an opening on the side
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put some holes in the side to put through apple twigs, veg, hay if you wanted to
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stuffed full of hay and treats
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and gave to bunny :)
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Apple stick dangler:

You need - some small apple sticks (or pear or willow), and a length of string.

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Start tying the apple sticks to the string:
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Have just a small space between each stick:
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Make sure you have a good length of string left over so that you can hang the toy from a hook in the ceiling of the hutch, or from the lid of a run:
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Treat ball toy:

You need - a toilet/kitchen roll tube, treats/pellets

Cut the tube into sections approx 2cms wide:
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Start to layer the sections of tube (4 sections is usually the best number):
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After the 3rd section put a treat or a few pellets inside the ball.
Add the last section:
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Toilet tube hanging toy

You need: A toilet roll tube or kitchen roll tube, a length of string, hay & treats.

Make a hole in either side of the cardboard tube, about halfway along:
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Thread one end of the string through the 2 holes:
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Tie the string on the outside, and cut off the excess from one end, leaving the long end to hang the toy by:
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Take some hay, wrap some treats up in it, and poke it into either end of the tube:
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Hang the toy at a level where your bunny has to reach up a bit to play with it.
 
Bunny Broomstick toy

You will need: an apple stick, and some small apple twigs, and a length of string (pear/willow can also be used)

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This one is really easy - just bundle up the twigs and tie them to one end of the stick to make a bunny broomstick!

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Lady Jane won't sweep with hers, but she does enjoy throwing it around and trying to chew the twigs off :lol:
 
I hate to be Mr Downer :(

But the one with the newspaper is not the greatest idea, as Bunnys will ingest a lot of the newspaper, which is not good for bunny tummys.
 
Bags of treats

You need: small paper bags, hay, treats (leaves/petals/pellets etc)

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Just open a bag, and pop in a mixed handful of hay and treats (in this case dried rose petals)

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Then twist the top of the bag closed, and let your bunny tear it open tp get at the treats!

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I hate to be Mr Downer :(

But the one with the newspaper is not the greatest idea, as Bunnys will ingest a lot of the newspaper, which is not good for bunny tummys.

we'll have to agree to disagree :lol: My buns don't eat the newspaper, they just tear it off. :) Just don't give it to buns that have a thing for newspaper. :wave:
 
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Carrot Cardboard Chew/Throw Toy! :D

You will need:

A chopping board
Knife
Carrot
Cardboard toilet tube

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Place the carrot on the chopping board and cut off the ends:
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Cut the rest of the carrot into small slices:
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Pick up a piece and cut a slit in it to the middle:
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Place it on to the end of the toilet roll tube :D
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Continue to do this with some of the carrot pieces:
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Then do the same to the other side and you're done! :D
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