Having three girls, we have A LOT of stuffed animals. The Beanie Boo craze didn’t help. Don’t even get me started with the Squishmallows! First we stored them in a basket in each of their rooms, then we graduated to hamper sized containers. Fast forward a few years and all their beds are full of fuzzy creatures and the containers are now overflowing.
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I needed a solution. That’s when I came across the DIY stuffed animal zoo concept on Pinterest. There are a lot of different versions out there but I wanted something midsized. I came up with a DIY stuffed animal zoo that measures 24″W x 25.5″D x 36″H.
Here is what you'll need:
I started building the stuffed animal zoo by creating the base first. I took four of the 1 x 4’s and formed a square. I then drilled pilot holes in two of them, 1/2″ in from the edge. I repeated the same thing with the other four 1 x 4’s for the top of the stuffed animal zoo.
Next, I screwed a 1 x 2 piece into each corner of the square base using two screws.
Then I set the whole thing on it’s side to attach the top square and stood it back up.
Before painting it, I filled in the screw holes with wood filler to hide the screws. I propped it up on boards to paint. I used three coats of Behr’s Roasted Corn paint and let it completely dry.
Once dry, I drilled holes for the screw eyes. They measured 5.5″ apart.
I then cut 12 pieces of shock cord about 3.5 ft long each and started at the top, tying it through the screw eyes.
I did the same thing at the bottom, making sure it was pulled taut. Then I cut the ends. To give it some personality, I downloaded an animal print font from Etsy and printed it on printable vinyl. I used my Cricut to cut them out, but you could do it by hand or use any type of font stickers from your local craft store.
I think the zebra stripes are perfect!
This turned out so much better than I imagined.
My daughter absolutely loves it and the best part is that her room looks so much cleaner! For more fun DIY ideas, check out my blog HERE.
Thank you, I always try to show step by step in my blog posts. Thank you for noticing!
It is a great project, my boys are grown now, back in the day they had a lot of stuffed animals, this would have been perfect !
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Have a question about this project?
? Where did you use the 9th peace of 1 x 4 ?
Shoot, I forgot to change that, thanks for catching it! I was going to put a piece on top of the front of the cage and spell out "Keira's Zoo" there but decided not to. I will edit it.
Would the shock cord be called something else on Amazon? I could find only cut lengths, not a 50' piece. Love the project!
Paracord perhaps?