Very light weight toys
 
Sew a string to a bell toy and put it low enough that they can grab it
or bat it
 
Wrestle with them through a plastic grocery bag
 
Crinkle sack (They can even fall asleep in it when tired.)
 
Tunnels (but you may need to shorten them
 
Treat hide and find game
 
Trails of scents if you are not already doing scent mapping as is done
to help blind ferrets.  You can use food flavorings but those tend to
stain and the alcohol is hard on wood.  I use oils of things that are
also culinary -- like rose oil because rose flowers are edible.
 
bell mousie on a string on the end of a pole and you can scent the
string higher up
 
crochet plastic eggs
 
loads of interaction
 
tricks to get treats
 
i know that there are past posts in the FML Archives, or FHL Archives,
or both on this stuff.
 
ping pong balls, esp. if you can get the ones with the little
clackers in them
 
We have made scented "balls" and "mousies" of sheeting material around
crinkly pieces of garbage bags for some of ours when that would help
 
We provided one with an aquarium to watch and another with a kit to be
her Jumpstart (which became his name and he lived up to it)
 
lively music (esp with plucked strings but not with pan pipes or bag
pipes)
 
We even had one who liked to watch the series "Hercules" and "Xena"
 
-- Sukie (not a vet, and not speaking for any of the below in my
private posts)
Recommended health resources to help ferrets and the people who love
them:
Ferret Health List
http://www.smartgroups.com/groups/ferrethealth
FHL Archives
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/
AFIP Ferret Pathology
http://www.afip.org/ferrets/index.html
Miamiferrets
http://www.miamiferret.org/fhc/
International Ferret Congress Critical References
http://www.ferretcongress.org
[Posted in FML issue 5367]