Looking for a fun, eco-friendly way to keep the kiddos (and grown-ups!) cool this summer? In this roundup, you’ll find 17 totally free and incredibly cute patterns—from speedy 5-minute makes to extra-plushy options for little hands. These balloons are washable, stash-busting, and gentle enough to chuck at your sibling’s head without starting World War III! Let’s make a splash with these crochet water balloons!
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1. Crochet Water Balloons
These Crochet Water Balloons use Bernat Blanket Brights yarn for that fun pop of color that every pool party desperately needs. I love that they are so soft, unlike their single-use latex counterparts. Plus, this is actually where the original idea for these came from! Shoutout to Left In Knots!
2. Reusable Water Balloon Crochet Pattern
This Reusable Water Balloon Crochet Pattern uses DK weight chenille yarn. The designer recommends DMC Happy Chenille. The pattern uses only simple stitches and the pattern is easy peasy!
3. Reusable Water Balloons
These Reusable Water Balloons are perfect to use for all summer and can be awesome stash busters too. The designer also mentions that these would make good party favors as well.
4. Crochet Water Balloon Pattern
This Crochet Water Balloon Pattern includes a video tutorial for added support. The designer mentions how fantastic it is that these are reusable and don’t leave latex everywhere for the rest of time!
5. Crochet Water Balloon Pattern
This Crochet Water Balloon Free Pattern includes a video tutorial and proposes a great way to cool down on a hot summer day. They are made with Bernat Blanket Yarn and can be made either striped or in a single color.
6. Five Minute Water Balloon Free Pattern
This Five Minute Water Balloon Free Pattern can honestly be made in 5 minutes, which is perfect for when you need the kids to be busy so you can focus on something else for a bit. You can whip these up in no time!
7. Crochet Reusable Water Balloons
These Crochet Reusable Water Balloons are perfect because they give the fun of water balloons without the worry in the back of your mind of what a huge mess you are making with the little bits of rubber everywhere. This is a much more eco friendly version!
8. Eco Friendly Water Balloons
These Eco Friendly Water Balloons once again point to the mess traditional water balloons generate, along with their negative impact on our planet. They should only take about 20 minutes to make, and they will last a lifetime of fun!
9. Crochet Water Balloon Pattern
This Crochet Water Balloon Pattern is great for a quick project! The designer also mentions how much money they have saved her family over time due to their reusability. Plus, her back thanks her for refraining from needing to constantly bend down to pick up latex trash!
10. Reusable Water Balloons
These Reusable Water Balloons are perfect for getting your kids out of the house and off their screens. The designer also mentions that she has gotten hit in the head with these, and she lived to tell the story!
11. Water Balloons
These Water Balloons are made in such fun colors, using Bernat Baby Blanket Yarn. The speckled design only adds to the fun, and the designer comments that you also don’t need to waste any time filling all the balloons up! You just drop them in water and they soak. Easy peasy!
12. Crochet Water Balloons
These Crochet Water Balloons are perfect for traveling, as well! Easy to wash, light to carry, and small to store, these adorable water balloons can be taken anywhere your family wants to have a blast.
13. Mini Water Balloon Pattern
This Mini Water Balloon Pattern actually has another use as well… reusable paint balls! Using Bernat Blanket Yarn in white, the balloons are great at absorbing water but the yarn doesn’t deteriorate from it.
14. Tunisian Crochet Water Balloons
These Tunisian Crochet Water Balloons are perfect for someone who is new to the Tunisian crochet world and is sick of crocheting square after square to practice. This is an awesome stash buster as well!
15. Fat Little Water Bomb
This Fat Little Water Bomb crochet pattern is smaller and rounder than some of the others on this list, which is preferable for younger kids who don’t enjoy as violent of a splash. Just as Duplo Blocks are to legos, these Fat Little Water Bombs are to water balloons!
16. Crochet Flying Fish Water Balloons
These Crochet Flying Fish Water Balloons are so cute! You can crochet these in the amount of time it would take you to fill a set of normal water balloons, and the only difference is that these can be used time and time again.
17. Fourth of July Themed Reusable Crochet Water Balloons
These Fourth of July themed Reusable Crochet Water Balloons are nice and large, perfect for that big splash your kids want. The designer also mentions that they can be washed in a simple mesh bag to keep them all together too.
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