The Play Tunnel

I drove to Ikea last weekend to get my dahling kitties the Ikea child tent I saw online. I told myself that would be perfect whenever Boe and Pozzy want to assert their feline privacy. Cat's love to hide themselves and take naps. But unfortunately, the red and blue tent that I wanted was out of stock. The creative side of me decided to choose the Ikea PS Fangst instead. It was designed in such a way that children can can use it to climb and stuff their toys inside. With this design, kids can practice hitting targets making tidying-up and sorting more fun.Trying to hit targets helps develop a child's ability to estimate distances and coordinate movements. I was suddenly struck with an idea how to transform this item into a fun toy for my babies. I bought 2 and chose the orange and yellowgreen.

I realized that the brightly colored polyester mesh was an even better choice than the tent I initially wanted considering its tunnel-like design. It was easy to see what's inside through the net so I can watch my babies when they play inside or whenever they choose to take catnaps inside. As soon as I got home, I immediately assembled the whole thing, attaching one end of the loop to another and hanging small toys inside so that they can play with it when they crawl in. I should have bought 4 so that the tunnel would reach the bedroom. Oh well. Will do that next weekend. As it is, it looks great and my babies loveee it. The pictures below show just that.

Pozzy comfortably seated inside the tunnel watching me

Hmm, maybe I should go out from this hole

Boe enjoying the green end of the tunnel.

Now I can have some peace and quiet