Use Your Noodle! 4 Genius Uses for Those Pool Noodles

Katie Brown
·Editor in Chief
Updated

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:

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

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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

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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. PAINT BRUSH HOLDER

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Materials:

  • Pool noodle

  • Box cutter

  • Painters Roller Tray

  • Paint roller

  • Paint brushes

  • Paint edge

  • Paint can opener

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 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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