Introduction: Piranha Plant - Super Mario Cat Bed
This is my 1st Instructable post so bare with me.
Here is the cat bed i made designed on the Piranha Plant out of Mario
Step 1: Things You Will Need
materials you will need to complete this project are;
1) Two hanging flower baskets ( i used the medium sized one but you can choose to make it bigger if you like)
2) 1 Wooden broom handle or length of thick wooden dowel
3) Cable ties
4) Red, Green, White, and Black felt
5) Cushions
6) one large flower pot
7) 20 Meters of 8mm woven rope (give or take depends on the height you go for
8) Cement and sand (to make heavy base)
9) 2 squares of wood ruffly 5 inches by 5 inches about half inch thick
10) enough ply wood to cover the plant pot opening
11) nails
The tools you will need are
1) Hot glue gun
2) scissors
3) Hammer
4) sewing machine (i didn't use one but it can look better if you do)
5) Patience
Step 2: Making the Heads Structure
This step is pretty simple
you get your two hanging baskets and remove the chains as theese are not needed
then you stand one upright inside the other so it makes 3/4 of a sphere
and then cable tie them together at points where joints cross each other put as many as you need or can to make it as stable as possible
make sure you trim off all the long ends after you are done
Step 3: Covering the Head
get your cushions and take out the stuffing and put it too one side we will use this in a minute
with the material cut the sewn edges to make one big bit using cable ties attach this to the inside top of the hanging baskets (this is to hold in your stuffing and will be covered over later so it hasn't got to be the neatest job in the world)
now start putting stuffing behind the material through the holes padding out the mouth this doesn't have to be too thick as the cat isn't going to lay on this part
now get your red felt and lay it out and put you baskets on it and wrap it around the head see how it covers (this is the part that took me the longest as im not a seamstress) and cut how you think is best making sure to leave enough to cover the lip of the basket as this is where you will fold over and glue
the technique i used was to make oval type shaped the same way a beach ball is made this meant i had three parts to put over it which left seams but i glued the overlap to seal it
once it is covered all in red the hard bit is over and the rest is fairly easy
Step 4: Attaching the Head
first get your broom handle and roll it in you card board to desired thickness and put some tape around it to hold it in place cut your broom handle to the desired height wanted
now grab the 2 squares or wood and nail directly through the center of one into the top of the broom handle now get the other and put this central inside the bottom of the baskets and screw this to the other piece of wood this should act like a clamp holding the baskets between them
now use hot glue to seal between the wood, cardboard, and baskets to just stableise it and fill it out a little when you got to put the rope on
so by now you should have a 3/4 red sphere ontop of a cardboard tube
Step 5: Rope
this is the easiest part use the hot glue gun and attach the rope starting behind the head then wrap it round and round the cardboard gluing periodically (i did it after every 5 lines of rope) until you run out of rope
job done told you it was easy
Step 6: Lips Teeth Spots Tounge
right we will start with the spots i used a £2 coin for size put this on my white felt drew round it and cut out loads of them
teeth i cut rectangle strips the height i thought was reasonable for teeth and the length of the open mouth drew a zigzag down the middle of it and cut that
the tounge i measured from the back of the mouth to the front and misused about an inch and guessed the thickness just meassure it if you want tho and made an oval shape with a straight end
lips this is where it got complicated as my felt wasn't long enough so i had to make two tubes and join them together
But if you use a sewing machine you could create one long tube instead of having a little part in the middle like i have
i used the part of the broom handle i cut off earlier to roll my felt round to get the thickness of the lips then hot glue gunned the felt together and slid the handle out and back filled it with stuffing once the lips are made either sew or glue the ends flat
Step 7: Putting It All Together
first cement your flower into your flower pot once set
you can attach all the parts you have made to the head it just a matter of putting them together
so fill up the bottom of the mouth with stuffing and lay your black felt over the top of this glueing it inside the lip of the basket all the way around
then do the same over the inside top of the mouth aswell
i used the hot glue to stick the felt to the lip and then little blobs where the cable ties are and pushed it against it to hold it up out the way
then i glued in my tounge with hot glue again
then i glued my teeth on the outside of the basket with hot glue
then i hot glued the lips to the outside over the top of the teeth making sure the seam was the part i glued on to hide it from sight
then start glueing your white spots onto the outside
Step 8: Cat Asleep in the Bed

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29 Comments
Question 2 years ago on Step 1
Hello, do you know the size of the hanging baskets you used? I've found some 14 inch ones and I was hoping those would work because I'm having trouble finding anything bigger.
3 years ago on Introduction
This is the best diy I've seen in a long time. I may ask a question when I actually do this diy in the (hopefully near) future. I wonder if I could plant cat nip in the actual flower pot, I know there's concrete, but I think catnip isn't high maintenance & I could always drill holes on the bottom sides of pot if more drainage is needed.
6 years ago
cooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool
Reply 6 years ago
cheers
6 years ago
cooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool
6 years ago
cooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool
6 years ago
cooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool
6 years ago on Introduction
Too Cool!!!
Reply 6 years ago on Introduction
cheers im amazed so many people like it
Reply 6 years ago on Introduction
I'm not, like I said it's a great idea and you did it well. Plus, who doesn't love a cute cat picture? :)
6 years ago on Introduction
thank you!!!
Reply 6 years ago on Introduction
Your welcome ? lol but for what
6 years ago on Introduction
This is amazing! Do you have any pictures of your building process? I know that this would be featured if you had more photos to go along.
Reply 6 years ago on Introduction
I have added some pictures of how i made it hopefully theese will be of some help would be appreciative if you could take a look see what you think :)
Reply 6 years ago on Introduction
It looks like ThinkGeek picked up your instructable on their Facebook page. Great Job!
Reply 6 years ago on Introduction
think geek ? never heard of them but great
Reply 6 years ago on Introduction
i dont unfortunately, i could try mock some up but dunno how helpful that would be
6 years ago on Introduction
So cool! Does your cat actually sit in it? I'd love to see a picture of that!
Reply 6 years ago on Introduction
got some pictures up on another comment if you wana have a look :)
Reply 6 years ago on Introduction
That's awesome! Thank you for sharing!