Image courtesy of my newest blog, The Kitty Blog.

Have you ever thought of cutting a simple (doesn’t even have to be straight) hole into a cereal box for kitty? Check out Build a Free Cat Toy: Cereal Box Hunt & Knock for more images.

PS for kitties: I also have a great cat food contest going on, so tell your keeper to enter.

(Image by Peggy Rowland.)

This is a lazy junk creation. I don’t just mean lazy in the sense that I didn’t have to use glue or scissors, but I was too lazy to get up and play with my cat.

So, there I was in my red recliner with a J Jill catalog I didn’t want. And there was kitty sitting in the floor whining for attention.

I started tearing out pages, one by one. I wadded them up and threw them across the room for my cat, Choco. He loved it. He even managed to catch a few between his paws.

After the entire magazine was lying on the floor in wads, I realized the fun just didn’t have to stop there.

Harnessing Catalog Pages as Free Cat Toys or Beds:

1. Let the catalog wads sit in the floor for a while. Cats love to rest on top of paper. Free cat bed!

2. Put the paper wads in your cat’s carrier. This creates something like those magical ball things kids like to jump around in. This can also be done with a crinkle sack.

3. When finished with #2, turn the carrier up and dump the paper over your cat.

4. Put the catalog wads in a shoe box, and let kitty dig around. Cats always think there’s something hiding. (Add a toy mouse as a bonus.)

5. Leave the paper inside the shoe box as a mattress for kitty’s cat bed and blanket. I’ve tried cat beds from the pet store. Choco prefers his shoe box.

6. Scoop up the catalog wads and save them for another day. I stored mine in a reusable shopping bag. If you take them away, kitty will be more interested on their return. Plus, it’s difficult to vacuum with paper in the floor.

7. And there’s the original fun of letting you cat try to catch the catalog wads as you throw them. Plus, if your cat’s anything like mine, he enjoys perching atop high places while you throw things for him to catch. For Choco, this means getting on top of the media cabinet.

8. Finally, when paper gets worn, just throw it in the recycling bin.

Are you going to try catalog page wads as cat toys?

Images by me with Choco participating as a willing model. No cat was forced to play for this post.

The easiest junk creations are often the most difficult to dream up.

Watch this video from Zack Scott to discover a fun way to gain a free cat toy.

The new poll is up in the sidebar. You know what to do.

I want to find out about your favorite type of junk creation.

Is it a clothing creation like the bra purse (but not necessarily using underwear), a metal creation like Nuts the Junkyard Dog, a simple reuse project like the tea tag bookmarks or the cat toy from a ketchup bottle, or it is a project you can more easily add your own personal stamp to (like the decoupage vacation mementos sour cream container into a flowerpot I’m working on for next week). But maybe it’s just that you prefer to buy homemade junk creations?

Let me know and we’ll discuss next month.

Image via flickr.