There is something special about spending time in the pool. When the weather is warm outside and you are with family and friends, jumping in the water can really make the time you have together special. Of course, you can either go for a swim or you can add some accessories to the day, one of the most popular being pool noodles. When you add them to your fun, it really seems to take things to the next level.
Pool noodles are multicolored Styrofoam tubes that can be used to help keep you afloat in the pool. Many people also use them for squirting friends with water or even for slugging them over the head in a fun way. As you are about to see, however, they are good for much more than simply swimming and floating around in the pool. They actually are quite versatile and you can make many things out of them. Here are 29 to get your creative juices flowing.
1. Hot wheels
Slice a noodle in half and it becomes a double racecar track. If you don’t have hot wheels you can use marbles.
2. Lightsabers
You can swing pool noodles around and pretend like their swords but you can also decorate them and they become lightsabers.
3. Hobbyhorse
Fold one end over and secure it with rubber bands to create the head of the horse. Add some decorations and you’re set to go.
4. Giant candles
Add some craft foam and before you know it, you have a beautiful decoration for your yard.
5. Lorax
You can create the trees from the Lorax quite easily. Stand them in a corner and let the conversations begin.
6. Lincoln logs
It’s a lot of fun to play with Lincoln logs but you can create them in giant fashion with pool noodles
7. A water wall
If your kids love playing with water, make them a water wall with funnels, cups and pool noodles
8. Sprinkler
Poke holes in the pool noodle and stick a hose in one end.
9. Headboard
Create a unique headboard for your children out of pool noodles. They will love it.
10. Flowers
You can make both the flowers and the vase with sliced pool noodles
11. Garland
Slice pool noodles and tie them together to make creative and colorful garland
12. Wreath
You can use the pool noodle as a base for a wreath. Form it into a circle and connect it and then decorate it according to your style.
13. Cooler
Put a pool noodle on four sides of a plastic container and store your drinks in the water.
14. Candleholders
Make sure that you use battery powered tea lights so that you don’t create a fire hazard.
15. Water balloon tennis
Make the pool noodles into a racket shape and stretch netting on top. Hit water balloons back and forth
16. Playhouse
Use pool noodles to create the structure and a bed sheet to cover it.
17. Basketball
Create your own basketball hoop for the bath and sliced pool noodles for the balls.
18. Peashooter
Cut some little pieces of pool noodle and shoot them through the center of a pool noodle.
19. Get creative
Cut slices of pool noodles and dip it in paint to make cool patterns.
20. Cardholders
It can be hard to hold onto cards but a pool noodle with a slit cut into it works perfectly.
21. Door guard
Don’t allow your doors to slam or crush fingers. Cut a piece of pool noodle, open it and put it on the door.
22. Spring guard
Don’t let little fingers get pinched in trampoline springs. Cover them with pool noodles
23. Giant pencil
This could be fun!
24. Columns
This takes some work but it could be awesome.
25. Logs
With a little creativity and paper/paint, you can make them look authentic.
26. Halloween decorations
Go ahead and get creative
27. Pool Raft
Cut a pool noodle in half and add fabric.
28. Float goggles
Never let your goggles sink in the pool again
29. Little boats
Use a pool noodle disc as the base with straw and foam for the sail.
