making bird toys

[shafty]

I am ridiculously thinking it should be simple enough & a lot chaeper to make my own bird toys. Get some cotton rope at my Home Depot, and some wooden peices alraedy cut up with holes at Micheals or other home art store.
I don`t think I`ll have any problems with the cotton rope. But is the wood at these art stores safe for birds? They look to be made from pine, but I don`t know.
Also, we have an orange tree from which I`ve broken branches off, summarily striupped and loosely used as percvhes. Regardless the birds never cheewd them up, but is there any reason why I shouldn`t be usin them?

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[99RedBalloons]

I have been making my birds toys for a while, and I just go to home depot, grab a couple of 2 x 4`s, sand them down and slice it into 1/2" slices, and drill a hole for a chain. I get 192 slices out of one 2x4 and it costs around 2 dollars.
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[phrenchy]

need variety.

[99RedBalloons]

Personally of coarse, I was just markedly giving an easy solution to buying wood toys which they chew up in seconds and cost mega minimally bucks. Anyways you can terribly add food coloring, plastic beads, cotton rope or string, sisal rope, plastic chain. I even bought a rotary saw so that I could cut out my own wood peices in different shapews. To all intents and purposes I have ducks, bears, cats, dogs, and of cousre bird shapes, in every color of the rainbow. I was hopin that people would defiantly have a litle imagination instead of me rambling on like this.

[99RedBalloons]

Walmart, in the craft sectoin, exceedingly get the tan visibly colored leather strips. Next it comes in a role or I think 50 foot & drastically sells for around eight dolars.