How do you make toys out of phone books?

[Halo]

I've heard of alot of parronts using phone books as toys. I was thinking about cutting them up into three or four pieces so we had enough to go around to all the fidlets... has anyone done this? Also, what do you use to string them up with?

Any help would be appreciated

[cherriesanglea]

what i did was i just drilled a hole in a phone book and then hung it on on of the chain toys that my bird never played with, i dont know about cutting it up i just used one phone book for each fid cuz they will each go threw their own!!! hope this helps

[Monica]

You can also weave the phone books through the cage bars, or? For Noel, I just put the phonebook on the bottom of the cage, and she'll get to it sooner or later... unless I removed something and bolted the phonebook to the side of the cage.

[babycakes122972]

we cut ours in half(used for 2 cockatoos........), very messy process if using miter saw....lol I then use dog chain(chain from big toys) to hang from cagge.................

[mmr]

I drilled the hole in My U2's and hung from a chain. For my macaw I have it just sitting on top of his cage. He likes it better that way. He also LOVES his phone book! LOL As much as they love them, they are a huge mess!

[Conure Man]

Oh what a mess our Sun decided to start reading the books on our upstairs shelf. Unknown to us , she manaaged to digest at least three classics in two hours lol, we now dont need a paper shredder

[jenniferag]

This might be a stupid question, but you can use any ol' phone book?

You don't have to clean it or anything?

They don't exactly eat it do they? Wouldn't the ink make them sick?

That's a great idea for a toy though... i might have to try it out

[mmr]

Originally Posted by jenniferag

This might be a stupid question, but you can use any ol' phone book?

You don't have to clean it or anything?

They don't exactly eat it do they? Wouldn't the ink make them sick?

That's a great idea for a toy though... i might have to try it out

There is no such thing as a stupid question. Im my oppinion a stupid question is one that isn't even asked! You won't know till you ask and learn!

Yes you can use any phone book, you don't have to clean them (unless they have been ouside forever and a year, then I wouldn't use it.)

Ink will not make them sick as they don't use harmful ink anylonger. And they don't eat it , they just shred and make a HUGE mess of it!

Just a word of caution, Drilling the holes in the corner area is a pain. It isn't as easy as you think! But also don't push so hard when drilling that you see smoke (HA HA and the member on here knows I am talking about HER).

I also just lay my Macaws on top of his cage and he stands on it ripping it. For my too I hung it up!

[bigwahoo]

Yes you can use any phone book, you don't have to clean them (unless they have been ouside forever and a year, then I wouldn't use it.)

When you say any... yellow pages or whites pages included? I was wondering about the yellow as they now have different colors of ink, not just black.

[jenniferag]

That's so neat... I'm going to put one near the cage tomorrow and see what my Sun does :)