Best Hamster Toys for 2022

A fantastic, simple clip-on climbing frame for your hamster home, this Hammock Suspension Bridge from Trixie is the idyllic exercise implementer for your cuddly creature.

Designed to hang from the top of your cage, it features two wooden ladders joined together, a rope ladder and a swing for your hamster to interact with and providing plenty of movement to keep them fit as a fiddle.

Suitable for all breeds of hamsters, the vibrant lime green colour will also bring a dash of character and cuteness into your little pet’s home!

Everyone loves treating their n’aww inducing gnaw machine, and so toys that combine stimulation and enrichment with goodies and grub are always bound to be a success.

A Hide & Treat Maze designed to engage and reward your pet; this Rosewood Natural Hide N Treat Maze is a hay coated, edible parchment labyrinth which is a great foraging tool, allowing you to hide treats in a series of tubes and rings.

Some of these are already pre-filled on purchase, including sweet marigold flowers and dried carrot mixtures your furball will absolutely love.

Helping to keep rodent’s dental health in tip-top shape, Pets At Home will also throw in some free grain-free herb and veg drops for you to covertly cover up in your pet’s new favourite toy!

When it comes to fun and adventure, there are few things better than this hamster playground! Kitted out with hide-outs, tunnels and ladders, to run and jump from, this Trixie tunnel system will have your little buddy running a mini assault course daily.

Made from pet-safe materials it’s also just as enjoyable to nibble on as it is to play with, so you and your hammy can officially say goodbye to boredom!

As well as being great little interactive spots for your hamsters to play, some items are just as much for you as they are your pet!

Brightening up your pet’s abode with its sparkling positivity, this wooden Rainbow Bridge from Rosewood may not come with a pot of gold, but it’s sure to be treasured by your little hairy explorer as they scamper around their home.

As well as being a classic climbing bridge, it’s high arched shape also provides a tunnel effect for scurriers to sneak through and its material is completely chew-friendly and safe!

Chew toys are vital for your hamster’s oral health as frequent gnawing helps to make sure their teeth stay in optimum shape.

Therefore it’s wise to ensure you have plenty of chew toys to keep them occupied and this 14 item set from ERKOON is the easiest way to provide your hammy with a bounty of bitey goodness!

The best wooden chew collection on the market, ERKOON’s range includes amazingly fun items including a willow rattan ball, pine nuts, molar string, bell swing and a square molar block swing.

But far from just a practical treasure trove of toys, the set also includes some impossibly cute stuff too, such as a chewable grass carrot, unicycle, dumbbells and a watermelon ball ladder!

Each item is made of high-quality, first-class wood and offers special anti-corrosion technology and anti-bite molar tools for optimum gnawing opportunity and teeth care.

It’s far and away the most cost-efficient option available!

Another brilliant wooden chew set, this 10-piece pack from Chasehill has everything you need to keep hamsters engaged and enjoying life for months!

The collection is a great mix between exercise apparatus and chew toys, meaning your hamster can be provided with an enriching experience in terms of physical and mental health.

Fun exercise tools include an interactive bell roller, bell swing, a seesaw and a climbing ladder. Then for gnawing goodness, there’s a watermelon ball, squared molar block and a pine ball.

It’s a phenomenal starter kit to entice a new hamster and help set up an immersive and enjoyable home environment!

Kids love climbing frames thanks to their numerous opportunities of exploration and imaginative themes and your hamster isn’t so different.

Given how small they are, it’s so easy to find large climbing structures that you can use to create an entirely different world right inside their cage.

One of our favourite such structures is this Natural Living Frida Tunnel System from Trixie, providing a two storey log cabin with a tower, tunnel and a series of bridges interlinking the buildings.

This one structure, therefore, provides your hamster with everything it needs for climbing stimulation and three house areas offer plenty of options for nesting, burrowing and hiding areas!

The Natural Living range prides itself on using only the safest materials and the tunnel system’s coniferous woods without resin canals are non-toxic and healthy for hammies to interact with!

For the rebellious rodent who turns their nose up at formulaic hamster toys, this badass motorbike is sure to pique their interest.

Acting as a kind of customised hamster ball, your hammy can sit in the wheel of the bike and act as it’s driver, burning up rubber around your home and starting their very own outlaw biker gang. The bike itself is a hilarious novelty toy too, with a classic chopper design and flaming hot detail!

The plastic bike structure lagging behind the wheel can make things a little awkward for dwarf hamsters, as it’s probably slightly too heavy for them to power up. But for larger breeds such as Syrians, it’s an undeniably wild ride!

As well as climbing and chewing, hamsters absolutely love burrowing into a large pile of hay and hiding away till the wee hours.

But rather than just purchasing a standard nesting box, why not offer them essentially a swimming pool-sized substrate box to dive headfirst into!?

This Large Wooden Digging Tower is beloved by rodents as it provides a 28 cm high burrowing box that allows them to dig to their heart’s content.

With a roof ‘diving’ entrance and a bottom floor exit, it’s super easy for your pet to navigate, and an included ladder means reaching the top of the tower is always a doddle.

Best of all, an acrylic panel wall on one side means you can always observe your hammy as they attempt to dig to the other side of the world!

Part of HAYPIG’s award-winning circus-themed animal toys, this 3-in-1 enrichment toy is a superb boredom breaker ball for your hamster to interact and play with.

Openable so you can fill it with finely chopped vegetables or treats, the ball features 6 treat releasing circus stars, so your hammy can roll the ball around to encourage food to fall out. You can even split the ball into two to create two shields to covertly hide food under, encouraging your hamster’s natural foraging instincts.

Sized at 8 cm in diameter it’s probably a better choice for larger hamsters, as dwarf breeds may struggle to push a ball that’s bigger than them!

Although made of plastic, owners needn’t fear about hammy’s harming themselves after a cheeky bite of the ball either, as it’s pet-safe ABS material is non-toxic and safe!