Suggestions for items for toy basket for shelter baby

[Terry57]

Beth, I am going to look at Value Village tonight to see what goodies they mave have for the fids...I had not even thought of looking there, thank you!

@Jen - We also have a restaurant supply place here I will try for those straws.
Looks like I am going to leave the house this evening, and not for a vet visit - YAY!

 

[MomtoPercy]

I don't have any macaw related tips eek: what a surprise, I know!) But since you asked about stuff you may have around the house, I thought I'd share some ideas. Note that most of these won't impress a macaw beak but it will be "shreddy"

* you already know about recycling left over bits and bobs from previousky loved toys
* you could also use stuff like wine corks (cut off the part that touched the wine), yoghurt cups, take out coffee holders (those that look like huge egg cartons), brown or news paper twists (take a large piece of paper, scrunch up lengthways and twist into pretzel shapes), corrugated cardboard stacks (cut squares of cardboard and stack into a tower, assemble with SS wire or rope), tinner cardboard or even cut up cereal boxes, cut into strips, folded into concertinas and threaded through the links of a pastic chain to look like a bow, wooden spoons that you don't need in the kitchen :54:, paper towel rolls cut in half stuffed with a treat and both ends tied closed with rope/rafia/whatever to look like a Xmas cracker. I'm sure there's more but I've just remembered my son has a plastic construction set in the storage room from when he was little, so....bye!

 

[MacawLoverOf3]

You need to be extremely careful with baskets. If they are shiny at all, don't buy them because a shellac has been sprayed on them