Sponge bomb wrecking ball - Outdoor fun DIY dad project

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If you want to be an extra cool parent, then homemade Sponge Water Bombs are all the rage. But they’re NOT DAD ENOUGH!
It’s time to give this DIY water-fun activity a serious DAD UP makeover. Get ready for backyard shenanigans with the all new, all awesome, possibly-concussion-causing SPONGE BOMB WRECKING BALL of Doom (oom, oom, oom, oom)!

Material

9 Lengths of foam (100cm x 10cm x 10cm)
1 Ball of plastic string
1 Hose
1 Clothes line or low hanging tree branch

Method

Get 9 equal lengths of foam cut to size. Do not try to cut the foam yourself! Hacking, tearing and shredding is easy. It turns out that cutting foam is rather tricky.
Do yourself a favour and sweet-talk the shop keeper into slicing the foam to the right measurements using their custom buzz saw.
Pile your nine (9) lengths of foam into three (3) piles of three (3). Each end should look like a square.
Here's the hard bit. We've got to compress these. A lot. Wrap some strong string or rope around the middle and then pull. Hard. Harder. I said harder.
Try my technique and bear-hug the foam into submission whilst your sexy young assistant (aka, Wifey) ties off the string.
If you put enough gusto into it, you should now have a giant Sponge Water Bomb. But we’re not done yet. Grab an arm length of rope and hang the massive foam ball from a tree branch or the old Hills Hoist.
Grab the hose and give it a good drenching. And the kids while you’re at it. And the Missus, if you feel you’ve had enough monkey love for the year.
Boom! You’ve created the awesome Sponge Bomb Wrecking Ball!

Notes

Man Hint – track down your local rubber or pool supplies store and ask for their foam off cuts. These should only be a few dollars each.

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114 Comments

- - mom81879 said
  - 27 Aug 2016
    8:01 pm
Oh so much fun on a hot summers day. Even I would enjoy swinging one of these at dad (hubby)

- - mom111059 said
  - 15 Aug 2016
    8:04 pm
Tremendous idea. What fun. Love the photo. Thank you for sharing

- - mom19782016 said
  - 23 Jun 2016
    6:26 am
Haha, this article made me laugh – so true. bigger the better for Dad’s huh.

- - mom165744 said
  - 31 May 2016
    11:34 pm
This looks like so much fun!

- - serotonin said
  - 29 Feb 2016
    9:43 pm
How much fun would this be! Perfect for this hot weather. Awesome, thanks for sharing!

- - june11 said
  - 10 Feb 2016
    9:41 pm
Foam can successfully cut with a very sharp knife (my Dad did it)

- - linaianna said
  - 05 Jan 2016
    4:05 pm
What a clever idea especially for those hot days

- - Kasey said
  - 31 Dec 2015
    6:12 pm
Cool idea!

- - Klsmith91 said
  - 28 Nov 2015
    2:49 pm
What a cool idea! Can’t wait to set my husband to work haha

- - JessyJade190490 said
  - 02 Nov 2015
    5:56 pm
bahahaha love the addition of adding the missus into the fun, although here, it would be me doing everything and making sure everyone else is absolutely drenched =P

- - mom113055 said
  - 20 Oct 2015
    4:20 am
waer bombs this summer kool

- - 4littlemunchkins said
  - 13 Oct 2015
    12:46 pm
Oh my goodness my boys would love this!!

- - mom109229 said
  - 30 Sep 2015
    9:55 am
Great fun! We don’t have a hills hoist but we do have a pergola!

- - dannsbuild said
  - 09 Sep 2015
    10:39 pm
A great idea for kids to enjoy really!

- - mom152736 said
  - 31 Aug 2015
    12:50 pm
that looks like so much fun… great going !!

- - mom90758 said
  - 02 Aug 2015
    11:11 am
🙂 Ha! Ha! It looks like so much fun!

- - BellaB said
  - 31 Jul 2015
    11:05 pm
Hm. I’m not sure it would be wise to make this…

- - kjgarner said
  - 28 Jul 2015
    1:29 pm
Definitely a great summer sport to get wet and cool down with

- - mom141765 said
  - 02 Jul 2015
    8:53 pm
What a great fun idea. Pity i didn’t sew this when the weather was warmer.
- mom94125 replied
  
  02 Oct 2015 , 8:21 am
  lol hopefully you get to try it this summer time
- - Kell said
  - 28 Jun 2015
    7:19 pm
our family will love this idea