Pool Noodle craft and DIY that bring new life to recycled summer favorite

Those long, bright and foamy noodles that spend their summer days floating around your pool, can be used for so much more than you give them credit for!
They’re spongy, firm and best of all, inexpensive. You can cut them up, carve into them and repurpose them for all kinds of nifty uses.
So if you have a few extra pool noodles lying around, it’s time to put them to good use. Here are 4 clever uses you may not have thought of!
1. TO HOLD UP TALL BOOTS
Materials:
Pool noodle
Marker
Retractable Box cutter
Tall boots
Process:
1. Insert pool noodle into a boot and mark noodle just under the top edge of boot. Remove from boot.
2. Open box cutter so the blade is extended out about 3-inches.
3. Use cutter to slice pool noodle at markers point.
4. Repeat for process for other boot.
2. EXTENSION CORD ORGANIZER

Materials:
Extension cord
Pool noodle
Retractable Box cutter
Process:
1. Open box cutter so the blade is extended out about 3-inches and cut a 12-inch length of pool noodle.
2. Use the box cutter to slice along the length of the 12-inch piece, deep enough to cut through to the hollow center.
3. Gather up excess cord and fold it up to organize it inside noodle.
3. HANGER PROTECTOR

Materials:
Plastic Clothing Hangers
Pool noodle
Box cutter
Process:
1. Open box cutter so the blade is extended out about 3-inches and cut a piece of pool noodle the same length as the horizontal rod of hanger.
2. Use the box cutter to slice along the length of the piece, deep enough to cut through to the hollow center.
3. Slip the noodle over the horizontal rod of hanger. Hang a pair of pants over the noodle and worry about a fold cease no more!
4. Follow the same process for sweaters by covering the two shoulders of a hanger with pool noodle.

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4 hacks for Pool Noodle DIY

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Prep Time

25 minutes

Servings

person MetricUS Imperial

Ingredients

• 1 Pool noodle
• 1 Box cutter
• 1 Painters Roller Tray
• 1 Paint roller
• 1 Paint brushes
• 1 Paint edge
• 1 Paint can opener

Prep Time 25 minutes Servings person MetricUS Imperial Ingredients 1 Pool noodle 1 Box cutter 1 Painters Roller Tray 1 Paint roller 1 Paint brushes 1 Paint edge 1 Paint can opener

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1. Open box cutter so the blade is extended out about 3-inches and cut a piece of pool noodle the same length as the short edge of a Painters Roller Tray.
2. Use the box cutter to slice along the length of the piece, deep enough to cut through to the hollow center.
3. Place the noodle over the swallow edge of the Painters Roller Tray.
4. Lie full-length paint roller in tray to note where handle will fall. Evenly space other painter’s accessories along noodle.
5. Use the box cutter to slice into noodle a divot to hold each accessory in place and at an angle to prevent them from lying in paint when paint tray is full.

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