The ultimate parenting hack: Savvy mum makes a giant BALL PIT

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The ultimate parenting hack: Savvy mum makes a giant BALL PIT for under $100 using budget buys from Kmart and Bunnings

  • Woman shares her sister-in-law’s impressive DIY ball pit she made from scratch
  • The woman used only four items to create the pit and says it was all under $100
  • She created the pit structure from PVC pipe, then attached netting around it 
  • Then added pool noodles on top of the netted PVC and poured plastic balls in 

By Amelia Roach For Daily Mail Australia

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A shopper has shown off her sister-in-law’s impressive DIY after she made a ball pit from scratch using only four items for under $100. 

Australian mum, Jakita, said that her sister constructed the pit with PVC pipe and netting from Bunnings, as well as pool noodles and balls from Kmart.   

To make the project she first attached PVC pipe together to form a secure ball pit structure.

A woman has shown off her talented sister-in-law’s impressive DIY after she made a ball pit from scratch using only four items for under $100

Once the pipes were sturdy she then added black netting from Bunnings around the exterior and base of the pit. 

The mum then slit $2 pool noodles in an assortment of colours from Kmart and fitted them on top of the netted PVC pipes.

To finish she simply poured $8 packets of colourful Play Balls from Kmart directly into the homemade pit until it was full. 

She he attached PVC pipe together then once sturdy added black netting around the exterior and base

She then sat pool noodles on top of the pit and filled it with coloured play balls from Kmart

She first attached PVC pipe together then once sturdy added black netting around the exterior and base, she placed pool noodles on top of the pit and filled it with coloured play balls 

The DIY ball pit was made with affordable items just in time for Jakita’s niece as a present her first birthday.

Jakita says she is currently persuading her sister-in-law to create ball pits as a side business as similar designs can sell for up to $200. 

She posted her sister-in-law’s hard work to Facebook where more than 1000 other parents reacted and left comments about the impressive DIY.

She posted her sister-in-law's hard work to Facebook where more than 1000 other parents reacted and left comments about the impressive DIY

She posted her sister-in-law’s hard work to Facebook where more than 1000 other parents reacted and left comments about the impressive DIY

How to make a DIY ball pit:  

Materials: 

  • PVC pipe
  • Black netting 
  • Pool noodles 
  • Plastic play balls 

Method:  

  1. Attach PVC pipe together to form a secure ball pit structure.
  2. Add black netting from Bunnings around the exterior and base of the pit. 
  3. Slit $2 pool noodles in an assortment of colours and fit them on top of the netted PVC pipes.
  4. Poured packets of colourful Play Balls directly into the homemade pit until it is full.

‘Wow my kids would love this, but I’d get sick of cleaning it up,’ a mum wrote.

‘I just chucked these balls in my bath,’ another mum wrote.

‘Your sister in law could definitely make a business selling these. I’d buy one,’ another wrote. 

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