Our cat, Dolly, sometimes carries a teaspoon around the house, and the other day she wore a badge. In fact her badge wearing antics were the inspiration for this whole invention-a-day plan. Her badge didn’t say, ‘Invent!’ or anything like that, but it got me thinking about badges for cats, and inventing in general.
I need to explain… There’s a bad cat who visits our house to pee on our floor whenever he can. So we fitted a magnetic cat flap which only Dolly can open with her special magnetized collar. A side effect of this magnetized collar is that Dolly sometimes carries spoons (or anything else metal come to think of it) around the house. whenever she gets close to anything metal it sticks to her colllar, and this is why she was wearing my daughter’s badge the other day.
So I would like to invent a cat (or dog) collar with magnetic panels where you could stick fridge magnet style badges to decorate it. You could stick on shiny jewels or flowery pictures (for girl pets) or funny slogans, or your cat’s name, or anything really… Kids would love it! I’m not really sure what the pets would think, I don’t suppose they’d mind.
A related invention idea that I came up with ages ago involves velcro T-shirts. I thought it would be nice to have football t-shirts with a green velcro panel n the shape of a pitch, and you could stick on velcro player pictures/names, to show your team’s first eleven in the formation you think they ought to play.
I’ve since seen velcro t-shirts where you stick letters to write your own slogans. I bought one but could rarely think what to write on it. Maybe these stick-on t-shirts would be better for children using pictures? You could have a fish tank with stickable fish, or a rabbit hutch with a rabbit and a carrot… If I had time I could make a fuzzy felt t-shirt for my daughter, I think that would be a similar idea.
Other ideas for velcro t-shirts and stickers..? You could play games on your T-shirt - snakes and ladders, suduko, chess. Or how about an Advent Calendar t-shirt for December? By Christmas it would have 24 pictures stuck!
I was thinking about magnetic cat collars with badges on them, but you could also have a magnetic badge. You could vary the badge’s design with magnetic pieces to make a mosaic pattern, or a funny face, or write words using magnetic letters.
Perhaps instead of velcro you could have clothes with magnets sewn in? Maybe these could come with magnetic sticky spots to stick on things you’d want to stick to your clothes. Kids could stick their lego creations to themselves, or pictures they’d drawn, or else you could stick a teaspoon to yourself so you always had one handy. I can’t take the credit for that idea, my cat, Dolly, thought of that one.
