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

- - fairyfloss said
  - 28 Jun 2015
    6:12 am
this is funny but great idea for kids to enjoy.

- - mom118423 said
  - 27 Jun 2015
    12:35 pm
What an awesome idea

- - mom81879 said
  - 25 Jun 2015
    9:44 am
Yay, finally!!! A project for dad to do with the kids. Time for mum to put her feet up, have a coffee and kick back

- - memo said
  - 12 Jun 2015
    9:55 pm
so funny, its a man thing

- - dannsbuild said
  - 30 May 2015
    11:55 pm
A great idea!

- - mle00 said
  - 29 May 2015
    3:25 pm
How much fun would this be! What a great summer fun idea!

- - bubble6369 said
  - 23 Mar 2015
    1:02 am
my partner is going to love this one !

- - beksmum said
  - 09 Mar 2015
    4:32 pm
This look like heaps of fun!

- - katith21 said
  - 08 Mar 2015
    9:50 pm
Looks like such a fun project! Thanks for sharing!

- - eviejude said
  - 01 Mar 2015
    4:53 pm
This looks heaps of good clean fun. Much better than the rotten plum fights hubby and Miss Eight stage. I always seem to be the one left to clean up!

- - rachkap said
  - 01 Mar 2015
    12:25 am
Heaps of fun – thank you

- - hopefullyheidi said
  - 28 Feb 2015
    10:24 pm
My son would love this

- - deb_gs said
  - 27 Feb 2015
    7:41 am
Great one for the men. Now I need a clothesline.

- - smart_ass said
  - 24 Feb 2015
    8:21 am
this looks like fun!

- - lanajanefox said
  - 20 Feb 2015
    1:08 am
Such a fun project! Thanks for sharing!

- - mel_phillips said
  - 09 Feb 2015
    1:28 pm
What a great idea! I can so see my hubby doing this and having a ball with our son!!

- - serotonin said
  - 08 Feb 2015
    2:21 pm
Looks like fun for the whole family! Thanks for posting 😀

- - Missy Megee said
  - 05 Feb 2015
    12:56 am
How cool! We made mini versions of these last Christmas using kitchen sponges and a bucket of water. So much more fun than water bombs! Will definately have to try this out
- Big Kid Little Kid replied
  
  06 Feb 2015 , 12:01 pm
  It’s twice the fun because you get soaked head to toe with only one sploosh! And it knocks my two year-old for six…
  - mom94125 replied
    
    05 Mar 2015 , 1:43 pm
    
    lol! i think that it will be awesome fun!
- - mummamj said
  - 02 Feb 2015
    12:06 am
What a cool idea! Now to talk my other half into making one 🙂

- - rachkap said
  - 01 Feb 2015
    3:11 pm
Fantastic idea and sounds like heaps of fun!