Welcome to this DIY tutorial! Today we’re going to be making this Christmassy Basket Hut for small pets! You can recreate this DIY with any basket, or use different themed baskets for different cage themes! This one in particular is Christmas themed, and I’m going to be showing you step by step how I made it.

For this project you’ll need:

• A hot glue gun
• Scissors
• A dark marker
• Popsicle sticks
• A basket
• A circular template
• A piece of paper

• If your basket has handles on it simply snap them off.

• Trace your circular template onto your basket; this will be the doorway.

• Using your scissors chop out the hole in the basket. This can be challenging.
• Heat up your glue gun and glue together all the loose basket-bits.

Now to create the fancy doorway:

• Using your circle template draw a circle on a paper.
• Lay a popsicle stick on the circle, meeting up with the edge of the circle.
• Draw in the circle over the stick.
• Cut out the stick.

• Repeat until you have four rounded popsicle stick pieces that create a circular circumference with a square inside.

• And finally, glue on the popsicle stick pieces around the doorway.
• You can add a few sticks around the edges if you’d like.

And voila! A nice, Christmasy-looking hut for your small pet. I really want to make more huts like this, since they’re super cute and if you get uncoloured baskets they have a really naturalistic vibe. You can usually get baskets in Thrift stores, and there’s so many options!

Please scroll down and comment if you’ve made a basket hut and how it turned out!

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