20 Fun Pool Noodle Crafts for adults and for kids! These DIY pool noodle ideas are great for summer.
Pool noodles are so much more than pool toys!
Oh, all of the things you can make with a pool noodle. They really are handy little things. AND since you can find them at your local dollar store, these crafts are inexpensive too!
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1. Pool Noodle Horse
2. Cactus Plant made with Pool Noodles
3. Bicycle Wash
4. No Sew Crib Teething Rail Cover
5. Floating Cooler
6. Quiet Blocks
7. Pool Noodle Caterpillar Bath Time Fun
8. Baby Activity Gym
9. Nautical Pilings
10. Pool Noodle Garland
11. Pool Noodle Planes
12. Pool Noodle Door Stop
13. Pool Noodle Pencil
14. Patriotic Firecrackers
15. Backyard Obstacle Course
16. Decorative Pumpkins
17. Pool Noodle Water Wall
18. Pool Noodle DIY Toss Game
19. Pool Noodle Card holder
20. Pool Noodle Launcher
What is your creative use for a pool noodle?
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Erin Biggers
Thanks for including my pool noodle pencil. Great list.
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Gathering at the Table
Fun...you can also put long striped socks on them, add a pair of shoes and use as witches' lets for Halloween.
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Miss Kitty
How much fun!!! I can't believe how creative folks are in their uses of pool noodles. I was just at Dollar Tree yesterday and saw the noodles and starting wondering what to make with them this year. Thanks for ALL the great ideas!
Carol
Some of these ideas just cracked me up, but others were "Now why hadn't I thought of this?" Thanks so much for sharing!
Shannon Eyer
I totally heart this post! Fantastic ideas! My little one is turning one this summer, and some of these ideas would be perfect for outdoor activities at her party. Thanks so much for sharing!
Candy Cake and Crafts
Oh this is wonderful. Thank you for sharing this. Pinning now!
Alli
I found some at $TREE
Krystie
holy cow, so many different ideas and uses! great post!
DesignGeek
I had no idea you could do so much with a pool noodle, although I have seen them used for canoe jousting!
Mommy Burkholder
Fun post- a few new ones I hadn't seen 🙂 Found you via Two Girls and a Party link up 🙂 http://www.365ishpins.com/
Susan Fidler
Hi found you from whatcha work up Wednesdays and I love this post, how fun is all the things you can do with pool noodles?! I'd love it if you would come to share it at my linking party!
Marilyn Clark
OMG, what a great roundup. I love the pencil and the foam nautical piles!
Emily Thompson
amazing roundup!!! Thanks for linking up to Tasteful Tuesdays at Nap-Time Creations... you are being featured this weekend.. head over and check it out...
Cathy
Found you through Sew Many Ways Find a Friend Friday. Love your blog!
I would love for you to share and link up at my TGIF Link Party. Hugs, Cathy
Marie bloominghomestead
Oh wow, this is great! So many uses...that car door guard is so awesome!
redesignedbym
What a great list! If I ever get invited to a pool party, I'm gonna remember that floating ice chest. ~M.
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Nicole@Show Off Friday
Wow! That's alot of stuff!
Elizabeth
There's a new museum called Myseum in Town & Country, MO (a suburb of St. Louis). It has something called a "Seaweed Swamp." My kids LOVED it! There are pool noodles threaded on strings/ropes with a washer tied at the bottom. The top of the rope is tied to a metal grid near the ceiling, so the noodles are all suspended about a foot off the floor. It's this awesome hideout/maze contraption the kids loved scurrying through.
Sumaya at Evocative Vintage
The humble pool noodle is quite versatile. I love that boot storage solution. Thanks for sharing!
Jennifer Rollins
So many fun ideas. I love the drink floater! Thanks for sharing!
Jenn
Ornate Splendor
These ideas are just fantastic!! I had to email your link to my 8th grade nephew who just loves to create things from household items like cardboard boxes...this will get his mind going...can't wait to see what he comes up with for creating with pool noodles!! Thanks for the inspiration! Catherine (new follower)
audrakay Frey
These are fun! I'm new to Pinterest. My user name there is Audra Frey. I'm very crafty.and artsy. I used pool noodles cod something I have not seen anywhere. To edge my flowed beds. Here's what I did:
I laid them all out out end to end and connected them with basic clear outdoor sillicone. Let it dry according to label. Then used a hand saw. The type that usually flips out like a pocket knife, a very large onoe. I sat on one side, this I assigned the outside. The other side is the inside. Inside the bed with the flowers. So on top and the outside with my hand saw I randomly cut grooves and notches in the foam. I drew a basic patter first with a marker. Then I went to the inside. Here I drilled small holes.all the way thru to the center hole. Then I spray painted the whole thing. Tao different colors.of grey and a dark brown.
I dug a trench 2to 3inches deep. Set the.noodles.I stoked mine. That's optional. I used plain old chop stick we get fos free. I plugged on send with a coke bottle top. I. Stick the 2
audrakay Frey
Wow. Sorry for all the typos! I could not get it to let me proof read it!
Anna Wisniewski
How do you make the firecracker?
Katie Adams
If you click on the photo it will take you to the tutorial on how to make it. I hope that helps!
JoAnn Hutcheson
Very imaginative ways for those awesome doo-dads - Love the floating coozie the best 😉
Brenda
I have high veggie gardens maid from reclaimed metal fencing and it is quite sharp around the top so I used tne noodles around the edges . The are gardens for the disabled .
Sarah
Great ideas! I love the nautical pilings! Visiting from the pin party 🙂
Sooz
You can use the noodles to wrap around (cover) the springs on a trampoline.
Saw this on the internet not sure who posted it.
Jen
I split pool noodles, lengthwise on one side, and use them as bumpers for window sills in my classroom. (Similar to the childproof door stopper, but on a window sill.)
Catherine
I use noodles when camping: one around each awning rope to make them highly visible, one over a pipe to keep my tiny microwave in place, one over table leg as a toe protector, 1/2 of one screwed to the top of the doorway as a head bumper, pieces of one as a fridge filler when travelling, and anywhere there's a sharp corner.
Kathy van Giessen
I used three pool noodles for a valance to my window curtains. I covered each noodle with fabric 3 times the length and one inch larger around than what the noodle measured. Put them on inexpensive white rods that run about $2.00 each at Walmart. It was a little tricky getting them to wrap around the corners but with my hubby's help we were able to get it done and hung them one at a time. My fabric that I used for the curtains was a strip lined with a solid so I covered the noodles one with solid and two with the striped fabric and hung the solid in the middle of the three. I tried to attach a photo but couldn't get it to work. Everyone that sees them loves tem and says what clever idea it is. I would be happy to send a photo to an email or by text if you would like.
sB
If you can find solid ones you can make them into playing card holders.
erika Parra
You can also use pool noodles to make hair rolls either for your hair or styling a wig! =)
Judith rushing
I use a piece of a pool noodle and a lanyard to keep my underwater camera floating in the water.
Leandrea
Thank you so much for including the pool noodle pumpkins that we created. They are so easy to make. There are some seriously good suggestions in your post!
Kallia
I loved your ideas! I am making a blog post on how to keep warm during and I am featuring your idea for the pool noodle under the door! I tried it and it works wonders!
Katie
I am so glad you found something that works for you. I am always cold during the winter and every little bit helps.
Constance Johnsen
I'm trying to find instruction on making the Pool Noodle Throne. Do you have that?
Katie
Thanks for reaching out Constance. I do not have a tutorial on that, I'm sorry.