Sponge Water Bombs

Huge announcement! I AM CURRENTLY BLOGGING OUTSIDE! Hopefully one of many days that I can sit outside with a cup of coffee or iced tea and write about whats currently on the go. No joke, I'm sure that we've only had about 10 sunny days here in Halifax, since we came back from Cuba in April! And that's not saying they were sunny and warm...the sun just poked its head out for a couple hours. I was starting to forget it was nearing the end of June. Anyway so with sun comes lots of ambition!!


One of my favorite party people is The Purple Pug, shes a glitter goddess! When I look at her stuff it makes me want to throw a party! She does have an online store but its under construction at the moment. I am patiently waiting for it to reopen. =) So until then I just follow her on FB and Twitter and read her blog about all the cool stuff she's been crafting. One of the things she posted not too long ago was Sponge Water Bombs! They look sooo cool! She was doing them for her son's end of school party, you can see them here. Be sure to look through her other pictures too, she just did this really cool Mario Kart Party. I know one little boy that would LOOOVE this party. So because we decided to have Charlee's 4th Birthday Party outside at a local park this year, I thought it would be a fun idea to make some of these for the kids to use. (fingers crossed its hot and doesn't rain, if that is the case Ill be doing like Kristy did and making them into "take homes") 


So this is how I spent my morning...lost in a world of sponge and I'm no where near done yet. I just ran out of sponges.

Start by cutting the sponge 4's to form sponge "straws"

Stack them like this, you can do solid colors or patterns. They look cute either way!

I used elastics to wrap them in the center, some people find it easier to use fishing twine. Tie them or get the elastic as tight as you possibly can in the center. And they look like this. How easy was that.

So at the party you just have a couple buckets filled with water and have these soaking in them. Much easier and more environmentally friendly than water balloons. Don't have to go around trying to pick up every tiny piece of balloon after the 5 minute water fight. They can use these again and again, just keep re-dunking them.  Now to get more sponge and make about 20 more! Happy Crafting!