Best pool toys according to redditors
We found 46 Reddit comments discussing the best pool toys. We ranked the 26 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
We found 46 Reddit comments discussing the best pool toys. We ranked the 26 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
www.amazon.com/dp/B01M1IIIEI/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_i19OCbN5TBEXS
I have a Watermelon Ball, and it's actually really fun to play with.
This thing?
It may sound silly but what about making a game out of it? Get some of those sinking rings and work on going under and retrieving them and gradually go deeper. It can also be a fun bonding experience if you have kids or nieces/nephews.
https://smile.amazon.com/Aqua-Dive-Rings-Pool-Retrieve/dp/B00XEO9ZRS/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1536172338&sr=8-3&keywords=pool+rings
cheapest way would be to buy some of these and a set of these
cut the foam to the width of your cars roof, then lay your yak upside down on top of them, run one strap over the front just behind your windshield and one over the back just in front of your rear window... when you tighten them they do not need to be so tight that it deforms the shape of your hull, just tight enough to keep it from sliding off... it would also be a good idea to tie a chord from the front of the kayak to your front bumper and also one from the rear of the kayak to your rear bumper
An elephant weighs about 3-6.5 tons. which at the high end is roughly 5,900 kilograms
A "jumbo" pool noodle is a 55" long by 3.5" diameter cylinder; converting to centimeters is 139.7 cm x 8.89 cm, solving for volume of a cylinder (V= pi * r^2 * h) ~= 9046.03 cm^3
1 cubic centimeter of volume will support 1 gram of mass, so each of those noodles will support about 9.04 kilograms of mass, minus the weight of the pool noodle (1.6 ounces, or about 45 grams, as it turns out), so we can round down and say that each pool noodle will hold up exactly 9 kilos of elephant.
5,900 / 9 is going to leave us at about 650-ish noodles needed before I punch numbers into a calculator, and indeed the number I get is 655.55555.... so round up and make it a nice even 666 noodles to hold up that elephant comfortably.
At the low end, an Asian elephant can be as small as about 3500kg and thus would need roughly 400-ish noodles; plugging those numbers in, 3500/9 = 388.888.... so rounding up, about 400.
we use a Power Cage - it is not a "DIY" option but it is very sturdy and very easy to camouflage into a boring vanilla piece of fitness equipment when the orkin man is visiting.
note that we've also added some padding using black pool noodles that we slit lengthwise and wrap around the main beams, that adds padding (which has saved me from more than a few bruises) and makes it look a bit less like an industrial weight lifting rack
I just went to Brazil to visit the family who hosted me as an exchange student 15 years ago, and several other families and friends I haven't seen in 10+ years. We brought presents for the kids (ages 2 months to 8 years) and the families (6 couples).
For the kids:
For the families:
Each family got a couple of things.
We stayed with 4 different families over 9 days, and we made a recipe for/with each family. Pancakes w/ maple for some and cookies for others.
We also brought a collection of treats. Unfortunately (for our gift giving) many of them are available in Brazil now including kit-kat, reeses and snickers. I even saw Peanut-Butter in a grocery store while we were there!
Everyone seemed excited about their presents.
Translation:
The biggest Nerf-Blaster
Mark Rober [US] built a 1,82m (6ft) long NERF-Blaster. verified on june 22 2016 in Sunnyvale, California, US. he also made enlarged Nerf-bullets from Swimming Noodles [floating foam] and a sink unblocker, which shoots at a speed of over 60km/u (37mph).
Have you considered teaching him to dive for appropriate toys like these?
Someone suggested on another forum to use a pool noodle on the boom arm to keep from getting dents in the headphone cushions. Seems pretty smart, as I had thought about the long-term integrity of the headphones hanging like this.
http://www.amazon.com/Noodle-Style-Color-Exact-Dimensions/dp/B0029XD0CG
Problem solved.
https://www.amazon.com/Nino-star-Large-Beach-Ball-Set/dp/B07RTJDTBX/ref=sxin_2_osp98-2380645a_cov?ascsubtag=2380645a-5391-48a7-9f6a-5bed10bc6a3b&creativeASIN=B07RTJDTBX&cv_ct_id=amzn1.osp.2380645a-5391-48a7-9f6a-5bed10bc6a3b&cv_ct_pg=search&cv_ct_wn=osp-search&keywords=star+wars&linkCode=oas&pd_rd_i=B07RTJDTBX&pd_rd_r=cfd92789-1846-4667-8fe5-4818343c65ea&pd_rd_w=TzDpT&pd_rd_wg=7KmZ7&pf_rd_p=a23a388c-add5-49df-b293-a31ade89c6bf&pf_rd_r=9204F9STSRDVRGY3V6NA&qid=1575085362&tag=ftl_os-20
Not to state the obvious (but i will!) Did you try Amazon? A quick check shows a pack of 35 noodles each 55" long for $60 from Amazon Prime. ( https://www.amazon.com/SwimWays-Standard-Swim-Noodles-Pack/dp/B01BY1S2US/ref=sr_1_4?rps=1&ie=UTF8&qid=1511912222&sr=8-4&keywords=pool+noodle&refinements=p_85%3A2470955011) Shipping might get you though. You want the this week. We have Prime. I'd say half the time we get the order in two days. Up to you if you wanna chance it and take the gamble or not.
If you've got no boat, go to the bridge at Woodland while the tide is either going in or out- not slack tide. You can get about a 1/4 bushel in a couple hours with 15 or 20 pots. I would suggest going early though as it gets crowded sometimes. Once the tide is slack, you have to wait. Poor results...
If you have a boat, and MD isn't an option, the creeks around Woodland are good, closer to the river. Try and go to about 7 feet of water (if you can) in this nasty ass heat. The crabs will be lower because there's a good amount of dissolved oxygen the colder the water gets and also because they won't be in water that's too warm. The Appoquinimink is good too.
One thing you need to know if you're in a boat though is that your floats need to be as small as possible. Delaware River tributaries have a NASTY tidal flow compared to MD, and if you have milk bottles for floats, it will pull trap doors shut or drag nets. The cheapest thing to do is to go to Walmart or the dollar store and buy noodle floats. Then cut them down to like 6 inch sections to use as floats. It's ridiculously cheap compared to using store bought floats, they last a long time, and you have less drag.
Happy hunting, and do try and post your results.
What about those pool torpedos, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07CWSL8DG/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_3zokDb07S20K4 . They're heavy, sturdy rubber and should be gentle for her teeth. When you throw them under water they glide for quite a distance before sinking to the bottom.
I've been thinking about this for a little now and this is probably how I'd approach it:
I'd get a single piece of pipe however tall you want it. The first types that come to mind are galvanized fence posts, galvanized conduit or even metal plumbing pipes. I would then use something like a 5 gallon bucket filled with cement and place the pipe in the center of it so it could cure it set up. Kind like this but as tall as you'd want it. Then I would grab something similar to this that would become the mount for each target. I would use a thumb screw and a nut through the opening so you could slide them up and down as you wish. Then grab some sort of tubing or pipe to slide over the square ends. I would make these sections about 1/4-1/3 of the length of each target then slide something like a pool noodle or pipe insulation the remaining 3/4-2/3 to be the actual contact area. It makes sense in my head so hopefully this can help.
*Here's a crappy drawing of what's in my head - http://imgur.com/RowlM0V
Walmart has similar but they have a squirter in them https://www.amazon.com/SwimWays-Rider-Squirter-Single-Styles/dp/B06Y3F2SSB
Buying an airbrush is kind of like buying a guitar. If you buy a super cheap one it's difficult to get any good results out of it and it can put you off for life. So invest a little bit would be my advice.
I can personally recommend the following.
Airbrush: iwata hp-cs - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Eclipse-0-35mm-Action-Gravity-Airbrush/dp/B000BQKFAI
Compressor: - https://www.amazon.co.uk/ABEST-Professional-Compressor-Multi-Purpose-Airbrushing/dp/B01I2ZUKYU/ref=sr_1_1?s=kitchen&ie=UTF8&qid=1538751820&sr=1-1&keywords=airbrush+compressor
The Compressor comes with a cheap airbrush so if you want to try with a cheap one go ahead, but you will want to upgrade sooner or later and that Iwata HP-CS will last a life time if you look after it.
This is also a must - https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00RVZG4X4/ref=sspa_dk_detail_2?psc=1&pd_rd_i=B00RVZG4X4&pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_p=8e5be0e3-b258-4b06-8b6e-695b24f935a4&pf_rd_r=4PP45CTWFKT5WD7KR20K&pd_rd_wg=pFBRH&pf_rd_s=desktop-dp-sims&pf_rd_t=40701&pd_rd_w=j5dUp&pf_rd_i=desktop-dp-sims&pd_rd_r=d08662fa-c8af-11e8-a4e7-5f4df7c134b5
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Not a single silly review... what the hell
https://www.amazon.com/SwimWays-Marvel-Avengers-Dive-Characters/dp/B00GZDILMU
I'd like to clear up some things since there is rampant speculation about what has happened here. Fair enough, I didn't offer any explanation on the outset.
I live in a solidly upper-middle class neighborhood in the suburbs of a large metro area. Folks who live here are working professionals; engineers, lawyers, doctors, small business owners, etc. Overall great people but... some strange ones for sure.
Anyway, my son was playing out front with the next door neighbor kid and the children with the slide asked them to come over and play on their cool new water slide. My sons went over and the six-year-old came back with this.
Now I know the parents who bought the slide and I know their children and they have all played together well on the street / cul-de-sac with all the other children so I had no problem sending my six-year-old over with his older brother to scope it out and have the parents call me or bring me their number so I'd have it. I got a permission slip instead. As did all the other parents who said "sure, my kid can go to your yard to play."
I agree with those that say the slide owners probably mean well, and they are covering their own ass etc. etc. but the reason I posted this to WTF is because of the nature 'friendly' permission slip.
What has playtime come to?
Kids weren't lining up to play on this slide; it was new and no one knew (or cared) about it. Their children canvased the street for kids to bring them over to play on it. Slides are cool for kids so I was fine with mine playing on it and they were excited to try something novel for the afternoon. I was grateful my kids had the opportunity.
Cool. Except the letter the parents sent back home to all of their neighbors. Basically backhandedly telling us, their neighbors, our kids are by-and-large little jerks who don't know how to behave themselves and will eat them out of house and home if given the opportunity. And since we probably didn't raise them right and they are uncultured heathens, here is how we expect all of them to behave.
If they feel that way, just don't invite anyone over! Why send a letter out to everyone letting them know you feel that way??
I know all the kids around my house. With the exception of one or two, all of them are great kids. I host them at my house a lot. The others just need more supervision. I know all of the parents around my house. All of them would back up any other if their kid was misbehaving and needed to be disciplined. All of us know it takes a village. It's a great corner of our neighborhood.
I actually would be okay with a simple slip letting me know about the slide and its hazards asking for a contact number if they needed to call. I understand its unfortunate necessity. But I also understand its just window dressing and wouldn't stop a lawsuit if someone's insurance felt the need to sue.
About the slide:
http://amzn.com/B00B9U8X5Y
not the exact model, but you get the idea.
https://www.amazon.com/Blast-Zone-Hydro-Inflatable-Water/dp/B00B9U8X5Y/ref=sr_1_27?s=toys-and-games&ie=UTF8&qid=1495224364&sr=1-27-spons&keywords=slip+and+slide&psc=1 can we get a crew together to inflate this mother... lol
I accept.
I select super soakers as the weapon, and foam noodles as a backup.
kornkobcom's idea sounds about right, but I would suggest something beefier than a child's vest. They're generally rated for 30-50 pounds, so the weight of the ramp and dog would sink it. Plus, life vests can get pretty pricey. You could probably use a pool noodle, cut into sections and taped/tied together. The buoyancy rating on these ranges from 100-300 pounds, and you can often find them at the dollar store.
As for your other question, MostlyPooping has the right answer. The float will be at water level, so any part of the ramp extending into the pool past the float will be submerged.
Also, bear in mind that the angle of the ramp will be determined by the length from the top to the float and the height of the top of the ramp from the water. For instance, if you build a 4-foot ramp, then position the float one foot from the bottom, the angle of the ramp would be noticeably steeper than if the float were at the bottom. You may want to extend the ramp another foot in order to give your dog a gentler slop to climb, if you think he'd have trouble with the shorter ramp.
I think they're just things you throw in and someone is supposed to swim around and collect them. Helps kids learn to swim underwater, for instance.
https://www.amazon.com/Fayoo-Underwater-Swimming-Toypedo-Treasures/dp/B07DHR14ZW
You will need at least one hose, if you can get one with a quick release mechanism I would recommend that. I'm not sure if you'll need adaptors honestly. I'm not really versed on different airbrush company standards. Are you going to a shop to get it or getting it online? Because you could either ask someone at the shop for specifics, or check the online store for recommended accessories.
I bought almost this exact package, and it came with almost all the hardware I needed: https://www.everythingairbrush.com/airbrushing-kits-brand/value-kit-range/harder-steenbeck-kits/ab-as-186-airbrushing-kit-with-evolution-silverline-fpc-2-in-1-airbrush.html
The only other hardware I got was this: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Spraytidy-Professional-Airbrush-Cleaning-Accessories/dp/B00RVZG4X4/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=Spraytidy+Professional+3+in+1+Airbrush+Cleaning+Station&qid=1571389692&sr=8-2
I haven't needed to buy any more accessories for my set up other than these, both the links show what comes in the packages individually.
I hope that's of some help.
This thread reminded me of this training kit I heard about last winter shortly after getting Sara and Maybelle. Just put it on order so I'll probably get it on Monday or Tuesday. The training stick idea really appeals to me. Seem to recall some discussion of incorporating a training clicker like you'd use for horses or dogs.
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Also saw an aquaponic forum post or a youtube about a swimming pool toy. I thought they were called pool bats but when I google that all the returns seem to be about little-winged mammals. Anyway, these things are brightly colored tubes, two or three feet long and two or three inches in diameter. This guy sliced some up salami style and was using them as little rafts to individually float net cups with plants on the surface of an aquarium. Ever since I saw that I've been thinking of weighing down those slices and using them as hoops at different depths for fish to investigate and swim through. Edit: Here they are.
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Another half-baked idea I've had since getting the girls is using clear plastic PVC pipe in various ways to entertain the three of us. It could just start with just a little food in the middle of a six or eight-inch length of pipe but in my twisted mind, it evolves into 3D mazes with Ys and T's and such. Imagine a 3D rat maze.
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And expanding on that thought. Sometimes aquaponics guys use a U-siphon to connect two tanks and maintain the same water level between them. If a bright and brave fantail goldfish was used to swimming through pipes as discussed above, wouldn't she use that U-siphon like a
walkingswimming bridge betwixt the tanks?​
Hope this thread has legs. I'll report on the training kit when I get it.
Love the chest as they're great for handy stuff storage. A fancy fabric draught excluder put along the top of the black couch will hide the steel and make a nice cheap head rest. Or Pipe insulation slit to cover the steel Or a colourful pool noodle to rest your weary head on. Or maybe not!😆
[1. Water Bottle](https://www.amazon.com/CamelBak-53863-Vacuum-Insulated-Stainless/dp/B015DKY552/ref=sr_1_9?s=sports-and-fitness&ie=UTF8&qid=1527750520&sr=1-9&keywords=insulated+water+bottle)
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[3. Beach Towel](https://www.amazon.com/Modern-Design-Beautiful-Amazing-Flamingo/dp/B01ILLVTRW/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&qid=1527750845&sr=8-10&keywords=beach+towel+flamingo)
[4. Floatie](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01M0KIW54/ref=twister_B07CBN2P3R?_encoding=UTF8&th=1)
[5. Sunscreen](https://www.amazon.com/Banana-Boat-Sunscreen-Family-Spectrum/dp/B004CDV7EY/ref=sr_1_12_s_it?s=beauty&ie=UTF8&qid=1527751529&sr=1-12&keywords=Sunscreen)
[6. Beach Bag](https://www.amazon.com/Beach-Insulated-Picnic-Cooler-Zipper/dp/B01GUFGKNE/ref=sr_1_62?ie=UTF8&qid=1527751672&sr=8-62&keywords=beach+bag)
[7. Book](https://www.amazon.com/Handmaids-Tale-Margaret-Atwood/dp/038549081X/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1527751797&sr=8-2&keywords=the+handmaid%27s+tale)
[8. Summer-themed Movie](https://www.amazon.com/Jaws-Roy-Scheider/dp/B009CG9CXO/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1527751989&sr=8-3&keywords=jaws)
[9. Treat](https://www.amazon.com/FroZip-Disposable-Popsicle-Freezer-Smoothies/dp/B01MDUDWHH/ref=lp_3737191_1_11?s=kitchen&ie=UTF8&qid=1527752143&sr=1-11)
[10. Outdoor Decor](https://www.amazon.com/Mark-Margot-Mischievous-Figurine-Outdoor/dp/B01JV40GSQ/ref=sr_1_68?s=lawn-garden&ie=UTF8&qid=1527752371&sr=1-68&keywords=outdoor+decor)
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Camo-netting makes great shade and lets most of the wind blow through, so you're much less likely to suffer grommet failure and flapping tarp.
Attach it to something very solid on your vehicle and use something to protect your vehicle's finish if the ropes touch it (or might touch it). Some of the guys in our camp wrap the ropes in pool noodles for that reason.
mudclub is right. Don't waste valuable shade by putting a yurt under it.
If the crossbars are wide enough to hold the kayaks side by side, just get some straps and a large pool noodle, slice the noodle length wise, put it around the bar and attach with zome zip ties.
If you need more room, get some J-racks, on my little car I can transport on kayak flat and the second on the J rack.
As someone who lives in the UK, I don't enjoy the same ironclad protections that prevent the 3 letter agencies from abusing national secruity letters to spy on US citizens.
All the patriotic bullshit aside, I believe Russia would leverage/extort a private company in their jurisdiction if they thought the end result was in their national interest. I also believe the US would do exactly the same.
But I seriously doubt that the security services of either country would target a typical SMB. Lets say the American company who manufactures pool noodles uses Kaspersky. The risk of the FSK using Kaspersky to compromise their network is close to 0.
For "normal" companies, Kaspersky is a solid AV choice...you could do a lot worse. It's decent at stopping malware threats in the real world and it's central management is not horrible. That's better than most AV solutions.
If you are in that super rare breed of company that'd be an interest to a foreign nation state, then sure following this DoD advice totally makes sense.
Pick up some foam pool noodles, slit them down the side lengthwise and wrap the crib rails?
Amazon: Pool Noodles
Pool noodles - $3.59 with free shipping.
cheapest way? make your own makeshift softracks for cheap. go to walmart, or kmart, or wherever and get a pool noodle and a couple of racheting tie downs. cut the pool noodle in half, and put the two pieces in between the board and your roof. put the tie-downs over the board and through the passenger compartment and cinch them down.