Building a hanging play gym! steps and pictures (399 views)

[Shelly]

i have made another play gym for the fids! and i took pictures along the way so i can share it with everyone

i only have triangles for mine, but you can make one with 4+ sides and use the same technique.

1. cut appropriate sized branches, or buy wood dowels. please get various sized dowels if you use dowels, and clean branches if you use branches. i cut mine into 1 food lengths. drill a hole on either end, the holes on mine are 1" from the end, but you can always change that.


2. i made 4" of space in between levels, and i cut the rope to 30". i use Paracord. again, you can cut the rope longer if you want more levels.

knot the rope at the end and put one rope on one end of each of the first 3 sticks. then take the end of the rope and put it through another stick at the end, like it is in the picture.


3. let the sticks drop. one end of the stick should be on top of the other and the other end should be below another stick.

knot the rope at the height that you want the levels to be at. i knotted mine at 4"


4. repeat step 2 with putting the rope through one end of one stick and the other end of another stick. shown in pic. you will repeat this for the 3rd level (and any additional levels)


5. it should be all together now! this was mine lying on the floor…


6. you might notice that if you hold it up, it is hard to keep level. what i did is i put all of the ends of rope together (the were still the same length) and then i made a big knot. it then was even. hanging from the ceiling:


7. decorate!!

leon checking out the mirror




i was going to switch it our with the other hanging gym, but i decided not to. it will take the place of Butch's cage when the birds are out. i don't think they will mind flying to it

(leon is still sitting on it!)

[Casey]

i want to build one too

i'll have to figure out where i'll put it though. i have some ideas, but might need to wait until after we move to a new place

[Shelly]

i am going to buy a dowel and make them squares instead

are you planning on moving, or is it just a future goal?

[Casey]

we are planning on moving after the new year, to a bigger place.

i like the triangle one. i think it will work better for what i have in mind.

[Shelly]

I would make it bigger than a foot. Maybe like a food and a half for the tiels

[Casey]

well. i'm not thinking too too big, because i want it off the side of the cage i think. i'll have to see how much room i got when we move. right now, the tiels cage is in a traffic walk way between both the bedroom and the bathroom, so there's no room on either side of the cage for anything on the side of the cage without it getting in the way of our walking.

[Shelly]

you could mare a rectangle one that would have much length compared to a small width.