written by admin

My friends came over for my birthday and brought a case of beer. My new kittens loved to jump in the box and hide in there. I didn’t want to keep a Budweiser box in my apartment but I didn’t want to throw their house away. So I made them a kitty house. This is quite simple but adorable.
Supplies:
Colored paper/magzine scraps
Kitten sized boxed (beer or soda boxes work well)
Cellophane (do NOT use something thiner like plastic wrap)

Tools:

Tacky glue
Hot glue gun
Scissors
Knife
Ruler

Instructions:

1. Draw out a design for your house — complete with windows.
2. Trace the windows on your cardboard box and cut them out with a knife.
3. Using the hot glue gun, glue cellophane over the holes on the outside of the bare cardboard box. You don’t have to trim the cellophane close to edges as this will be covered.
4. Glue a solid sheet of paper (with holes cut over the windows) on the sides of the box.
5. Cut paper from old magazines, cardstock, etc. to form the houses (leaving holes for the windows).
6. If you want the house to stay in good shape, then cover the whole thing with packaging tape.
7. Play with the kitties with it! They especially like it if you roll a ball into it, they’ll chase it inside.

Please be sure to supervise your kitties when they play with this so that they don’t tear and eat the cellophane or anything.

If you’d like to see more of my kittens, check out their blog.