hi I'm Sophie and welcome to my world well if it's hot where you are you might
want to cool off and I've got a great idea
take a pool noodle and turn it into a sprinkler I'm going to show you how to
make it right now for this project you will need a pool noodle with a hole a
cork two popsicle sticks or stir sticks toothpick or sharpened pencil or skewer
an exacto knife or box cutter a hose and water hookup so the first thing and the
most important thing is to make sure that your pool noodle has a hole through
the middle of it you don't want a solid pool noodle because the water won't be
able to go through so the first thing we're gonna do is take our x-acto knife
or a box cutter and I actually tend to think that these like craft knife / box
cutters are much better for this because you can have them come all the way out
which is going to give you a little bit more cutting space and so all you're
gonna do is cut your pool noodle to the length of the sprinkler top that you
want now you could use the whole pool noodle if you want that's totally fine
you could do that but I'm gonna make mine short so that you can see what's
happening here first thing I want to do is take one of
my popsicle sticks or stir sticks and I'm using stir sticks and make a hole on
the side right there and on the other side right there so you just make that
step so that you have it set now take your cork and stick it in and up past
that hole and then slide that back through so that you've locked in your
little cork can you see that the cork is locked in there then you take your
second one and you're gonna come back on the other side so you got like
north/south and now we're gonna do east-west so from top to bottom so you
got it from side to side and now from top to bottom and that's gonna be right
underneath the other one this is going to keep your cork from popping out with
the water pressure it also makes a great way of
making this stand up so that it's not gonna flip-flop on the ground gives its
own little base so now it's up to you as to how many holes you're gonna make you
just want to start you'll be able to feel where your cork is and only be able
to go through so much if you're at the cork
otherwise you'll be able to go all the way down like that so my cork is here
you can see it won't go all the way down right okay so I'm just gonna go and
stick and then I'm just gonna continue going down all the way to the end so
that's gonna give me one stream of water now of course I can line it up with as
many holes as I want and they can be lined up in lines like this or they can
be haphazard and random it's up to you how you want to make your sprinkler just
like you can make it as long as you want you can also make as many holes as
you want now I like to kind of leave it up so it's coming up the top because if
you put this on the bottom the water kind of just gets your ground muddy so
I like to try to make it so it just goes up however if you want to hang this from
a tree like hang it over and have it be almost more like a a waterfall or like a
showerhead then you could do them all the way around but I'm going to show you
what this looks like when we hook it up to water sadly I don't have a garden
hose but I'm gonna hook it up to my slop sink and you'll be able to see how it
works so attach it to your garden hose and turn the water on
there you go a pool noodle turned into a sprinkler and I know that that was not
hooked up to a hose but you can imagine if you laid this down and let the water
come through it goes straight up into the air for more fun ideas made out of
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