Sometimes, you look on Pinterest and you find things like — oh, I don’t know, maybe a tricycle car wash?
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And you look at that tricycle car wash and you think to yourself, “Let’s do it.”
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This is easily the craziest thing I’ve seen on Pinterest at this point. It was so bonkers, I just had to try it. When I started shopping for it, I wanted to turn back. But I couldn’t. I was in too deep.
And was it easy? Of course it wasn’t. It took nearly an entire day to put together. But because I love my kids, I’m willing to do things like this for them.
You will need:
- Pool noodles + cut-up pool noodles
- Rubber mallet
- 9 “T” connectors (¾-inch)
- 9 “L” connectors (¾-inch)
- 2 caps
- 2 “cross” connectors (¾-inch)
- Female hose adapter
- Male hose adapter
- 2 misters
- Two (2) 5-foot PVC pipes (¾-inch)
- Twenty (20) 2.5-foot PVC pipes (¾-inch)
- One (1) 6-inch PVC pipe (¾-inch)
- Three (3) 3-foot PVC pipes (¾-inch)
- Two (2) 1-foot PVC pipes (¾-inch)
- Cut board
- Fabric cutter
- 2 shower curtains
- Kitchen sponges
- Drill with ⅛-inch bit
(Is your head spinning yet?)
A construction plan for the car wash is available at Design Mom, where I found this idea via Pinterest.
Thankfully, the finished product worked, and Tyson and I had a blast testing it for my kids.
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