DIY Sponge Balls and Lemon Squirters

DIY Sponge Balls and Lemon Squirters: easy ideas for kids DIY water toys and full tutorial to make your own sponge balls.

These DIY Sponge Balls are easy and inexpensive to make. The lemon squirts make really fun DIY water toys for kids. Get ready for a fun backyard water play day.

We hosted a lemonade themed birthday party, that I shared all the decor and food for here. Today I want to share a couple cute ideas for the activities. The kids enjoyed some water play in the backyard with our DIY Sponge Balls and Lemon Squirters, as well as a kids pool and slip and slide.

DIY Sponge Balls

Materials:

sponges
hair ties
scissors

To make the sponge balls you’ll need sponges from the dollar store, some hair elastics, and scissors.

How To Make A Sponge Ball

1. To make them, begin by snipping the sponges almost to the middle on both sides, into 8 squares on each side.

I used one pink sponge and one yellow, but you could make these any colour you like.

2. Once they’re all snipped, stack them and hold them together with a hair elastic.

Then, just tighten the elastic until the sponges form a ball shape. That’s it, so easy.

We used our sponges in our little pool, and also to do a water relay with the yellow pails.

We also set up the slip n’ slide, here’s the birthday girl enjoying a slide.

Lemon Spirters

The other fun little DIY water toy that I came up with was to make lemon squirters.

I found lemon juice in these little plastic lemon containers at the grocery store. I emptied out the lemon juice, and then we filled them with water to make the cutest lemon squirters!