The Completed Sweet Wrapper Butterfly

This requires a little imagination, but the final kitten toy is meant to look a little like a butterfly! Kittens have a love of pretty much anything on a string, but this colourful butterfly made from sweet wrappers will easily grab their attention. The idea with the sweet wrapper butterfly is that you drag it along the floor or through the air, and your kitten will go mad trying to catch it!

Sweet Wrappers and String

Firstly, you need to twist the ends of the sweet wrappers at one end. This will make it easier to tie them on to the string.

Twisted Sweet Wrappers

Then, tie each of the sweet wrappers on to the string at one end. Just a simple granny-knot will do fine, it doesn’t need to be particularly robust.

First Knot

Do this for all of the sweet wrappers until you have 2 wrappers on each side to create something that (just about) looks like a butterfly.

The Completed Sweet Wrapper Butterfly

That’s it for this very simple and fun kitten toy. As a little bit of variety, offer your kitten the plain end of the string rather than the butterfly itself.

Old Broken Shoe Laces - Untied

If you think about it, both cats and kittens just love shoe laces, wires or anything that vaguely resembles string. I break shoe laces pretty often (probably because I like my shoes nice and tight), so I thought that Leia might appreciate having her own laces to play with. So rather than have Leia attack my foot when I’m on my way out, I turned some old broken shoe laces into a toy.

Old Shoe Laces Tied

As simple as it may be, just tying some old shoe laces into a T or X shape will keep the kittens amused for a while. Leia got bored of a single shoe lace pretty quickly, but seems fascinated with the T shaped spider thing I created, perhaps because of the way it moves when she flings it into the air.

As an added bonus, if you ensure you have a long end on the shoe lace toy, you can dangle the lace in front of your kitten so that your kitten plays with you rather than on their own. As your kitten gets older, you’ll find they appreciate playing with you more than they do playing on their own.