DIY Hamster Bath House

Dwarf hamsters should never be bathed in water but they do enjoy rolling in bath sand. Mine are always kicking the sand out of their bath tub. Also, my original hamster bath tub was tiny, made from plastic, and as you can see from the photo, it gets chewed on! I could get a chew-proof ceramic bath, but I had plenty of material leftover from my last DIY hamster platform project so I decided to build one.

This hamster bath house / giant bath tub was made with leftover wood dowels, popsicle sticks, and part of an old gift box. Since it’s mostly wood and cardboard, it’s not so bad if the hamster chews on it. Plus it’s much bigger and a hamster would have to kick the sand pretty high to get them out. It’s easy to build, requires few materials and took me only twenty minutes at most.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Some readers have reported hamsters getting their legs stuck between the popsicle stick wall. To prevent this from happening, please build the bath house with sticks placed horizontally (unlike the photo above which shows the sticks placed in a vertical position)

Materials needed for DIY Hamster Bath House

• Base: cardboard box or old gift box
  I used the cover of an old gift box to make the base. You want something that’s hard enough, so use anything that’s made from cardboard or harder. Old plastic containers would probably be fine too.
• Wall: ice-cream or popsicle sticks
  These will form the wall around your base and prevent the sand from getting kicked out.
• Entrance: wood dowels, or cut-up popsicle sticks
  I used the leftover wood dowels from the DIY hamster platform but you could cut up popsicle sticks for the entrance too. We want the entrance to be a little lower so your hamster can get in easily.
• PVA glue to stick everything together

Instructions for DIY Hamster Bath House

1. Glue popsicle sticks to the sides and back of the base to form walls.
2. On the front of the base, leave enough space for an entrance and glue the popsicle sticks on both sides of the entrance
3. Glue the wood dowels or cut-up popsicle sticks to make an entrance that’s a little lower than the rest of the popsicle stick wall
4. Decorate your bath tub and fill with sand

That’s it! If you wanted to, you could probably add a roof or even convert this into a hamster house.

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