DIY Water Table

My daughter loves to play with water, but gets more of a kick out of running water, so I went looking for a water table with a pump. I wasn’t able to find much, only ones with manual pumps which seemed out of her reach at that age, so I tried making my own.

Finished Product

Ingredients

Assembly

The assembly is pretty straightforward

  1. Cut a hole in the bottom bin, just wide enough for the pump plug to run through it, just below the lowest point of the top tray.
  2. Cut a hole in the top tray where you want the PVC to come up through. Don’t worry about making this exact, since you’ll want some water to flow back down, but start small.
  3. Get creative with the PVC tubing, drill some holes, add some connectors, but don’t glue it together, since you’ll want to be able to take it apart. When it’s dry fitted it still holds together well.

You’ll have to adjust the size of the whole in the top tray so that it keeps some water, but doesn’t pump out the bottom entirely. I was surprised that this only took us a couple of hours to build and didn’t see anything like this on the internet yet.