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Household re-purpose: water balloon pump!

July 12, 2013 By: Melanie

Hooray!  Welcome to another Summer Fun Friday!!
This last week we had some water balloon fun!
DIY Water Balloon pump-household re purpose (1)
 I needed a way for the kids to fill up their own water balloons without turning the hose off and on a million times.
Here’s what I came up with:
A super easy DIY water ballooon pump!  Re-purpose a common household item to make filling water balloons simple enough for kids!
Part 1:
Wash out an old shampoo or conditioner pump bottle.  (The huge kind, like from Costco.)
DIY Water Balloon pump-household re purpose (7)
Fill with water.
Place balloon over the tip and pump to fill!
Easy peasy!
DIY Water Balloon pump-household re purpose (2)
This bottle head was too wide for the water balloons to fit over, so I used my kitchen shears to clip the sides off.
DIY Water Balloon pump-household re purpose (6)
It looked like this after I clipped. : )
DIY Water Balloon pump-household re purpose (5)
DIY Water Balloon pump-household re purpose (4)
This giant hand sanitizer bottle made another perfect pump.  No clipping needed.
I just emptied it into smaller bottles and rinsed it out good.
DIY water balloon pump
DIY Water Balloon pump-household re purpose (3)
DIY Water Balloon pump-household re purpose (10)
The kids thought filling the water balloons was almost as fun as throwing them!  And this was much easier than using the hose.  Now I just need to help them master tying the balloons too! : )
 *UPDATE*  Check out our DIY tying jig-water balloon station HERE
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Comments

  1. N says

    May 18, 2017 at 3:40 am

    superb

  2. Lisa @ greylustergirl says

    June 19, 2014 at 7:38 pm

    What a fantastic idea! Now I want to go to the store and get some balloons to try this out!

  3. Portland Parenting Examiner says

    August 2, 2013 at 9:16 pm

    You have been featured on Examiner! http://www.examiner.com/article/reclaim-those-plastic-bottles-to-fill-water-balloons

  4. Heidi@OneCreativeMommy.com says

    July 20, 2013 at 9:47 pm

    I loved this idea so much that I shared it as part of my Fantastic Finds Friday at OneCreativeMommy.com! I hope you’ll stop by and check it out. If you would rather not have your image shared with a link back to your site, please let me know, and I will remove it.

  5. Unknown says

    July 19, 2013 at 2:53 am

    I love this. thank you

  6. Christa says

    July 18, 2013 at 9:20 pm

    Thank you so much for this brilliant idea! We have a water balloon fight at Cousin Camp every year, and I dread filling all those balloons every single year. I’m going to file this idea away for next year. Thank you for making my life a little easier! 🙂

  7. feelincrafty says

    July 18, 2013 at 5:27 am

    great idea! The little pieces that come with the balloons are hard for the little ones!

  8. Miranda @ Someday Crafts says

    July 18, 2013 at 4:46 am

    Fabulous idea!! Now I wish I hadn’t *just* thrown out my son’s shampoo bottle. Thanks for linking up at Whatever Goes Wednesday. We’ll be featuring this tomorrow 🙂

  9. Anjie Behunin says

    July 12, 2013 at 6:40 pm

    GREAT idea! Now to round up some shampoo bottles for my kiddos to use. Thanks!

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