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Homemade Hamster Toys - Play Tubes from File Folders

by Lianne McLeod, DVM
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Small Homemade Play Tube for Your Hamster

Small File Folder play tube

Ready for play: a small file folder play tube

Photo © 2006 Lianne McLeod, Licensed to About.com, Inc.
Once the tube uncoils a bit, you can adjust the final diameter by loosening the rolls a bit if desired. This is what the roll looked like after rolling it on the pencil. I then just unrolled it a bit to loosen it a bit, to get the diameter I wanted for a small homemade play tube (the end result can be viewed at the end of this tutorial).

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