Frugal Child Safety: DIY Hearth Protector

Create a bumper for your fireplace hearth with a large pool noodle!

Or buy some pipe insulation from any hardware store - sometimes even cheaper!

Just cut the foam stick to the same length as your hearth.

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Cut a slit halfway through the long way - cutting through from the outside to the hole already in the middle.

Kidkusion Hearth Kushion

Then push the pool noodle onto the edge of your hearth.

The tension of the foam trying to revert to its natural shape is what holds it in place.

If you have a toddler who would pull it off, use some removable Command Adhesive tabs - you can buy them without the hooks.

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Shopping Suggestions:
• Jumbo Pool Noodle

• 3M Command Poster Adhesive Value Pack

• Cardinal Gates Hearth Guard

• Prince Lionheart Fireplace Guard

• Kidkusion Hearth Kushion

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