DIY Toddler Water Table

Our apartment complex has these great community activities including weekly water days where they pull out half a dozen kids pools and slippery slides and sprinklers and let the kids go wild. It's awesome!  One of Superman's favorite toys is the toddler water table.

So I got this idea to get him a water table to help us stay entertained and cool through the last half of the summer. But those fancy little tables cost anywhere from $30-$200 -- a bit too much for our budget. I talked to Ross and made a plan involving some scrap wood and a rubbermaid bin. Here's what we came up with for less than $10.

(What is that face?! Adorable!)

It's really just a very simple design. I would share a how-to tutorial, but well, Ross made it and I didn't think ahead to make a tutorial. Sorry, but maybe you can get a good enough idea from the pics.

And my favorite part is that when we are done, I can just snap the lid on and it's all put away until next time.

And when the hot weather is past, I plan to bring the little table inside and convert it into a sensory table like this adorable garden from Pepper Scraps.