Backyard Vertical Water Wall
Construct a 'water wall' on a fence or wall using recycled plastic bottles, funnels, and tubes, encouraging experimentation with gravity and flow. The setup provides constant, structured sensory input.
- Takes
- 1–2 hr
- Your setup
- 30 min prep
- Ages
- Ages 4–9
- Mess
- Messy
- Cost
- $
- Where
- Outdoors
How to do it
- 1Secure the bottles, cut vertically in half, and funnels to a vertical surface (fence or wall) in a sequence, allowing water to flow from the top down.
- 2Ensure the connections are stable and the paths allow continuous flow.
- 3Provide a bucket of water and a scoop.
- 4Challenge the child to pour water into the top funnel and track its journey to the bottom.
- 5Ask questions about how to make the water flow faster or change direction.
What they're practising
- Cause and Effect
- Problem Solving
- Sustained Sensory Play
- Engineering Concepts