Hooray! Welcome to another Summer Fun Friday!!
This last week we had some water balloon fun!
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:
Part 1:
Wash out an old shampoo or conditioner pump bottle. (The huge kind, like from Costco.)
Fill with water.
Place balloon over the tip and pump to fill!
Easy peasy!
This bottle head was too wide for the water balloons to fit over, so I used my kitchen shears to clip the sides off.
It looked like this after I clipped. : )
This giant hand sanitizer bottle made another perfect pump. No clipping needed.
I just emptied it into smaller bottles and rinsed it out good.
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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What a fantastic idea! Now I want to go to the store and get some balloons to try this out!
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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.
I love this. thank you
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! 🙂
great idea! The little pieces that come with the balloons are hard for the little ones!
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 🙂
GREAT idea! Now to round up some shampoo bottles for my kiddos to use. Thanks!