Creating a faux flower arrangement for your front porch? Discover two ways that a pool noodle could simplify the process and help all your blooms stay upright.

Pool noodles aren't just for swimming—we asked experts for their favorite ways to use pool noodles around the house and garden.

Use your noodle and your pool noodle and create "frogs" to hold flowers or table numbers, Stoner Leaman suggested. Poke holes in your noodle and tape several together in an arch.

By using a few pool noodles in your planters, you don’t need to use as much soil, but you can still keep the plants themselves up near the top of the vessel, giving them the look of being bigger ...

“Pool noodles can be used as swimming aids, however, they are not intended to help prevent children from drowning,” says Emily Samuel, program director for Safe Kids Worldwide.