DIY Wood Cat Wand

Entertain and exercise your cat with a homemade wand toy! Cut a hole in the end of a wood dowel, cut strips of leather string and tie a string to end of the wood dowel. Cut several small pieces of leather string, glue the pieces over the handle-end of the wood dowel and then wrap a leather string around the handle area with glue. Wrap a piece of yarn and string around your hand or a fork several dozen times, slide the bunch off your hand or the fork, tightly tie a string around the center of the bunch and cut all the strings to make a pompom toy. Sew feathers onto the end of a leather string, slide a bead onto the string, tie a leather string to the pompom and knot the ends of the toy strings onto the wand string.