DIY Community Service Projects Leveraging PVC



community service projects made of pvc

What’s good for the community and makes you feel great? Community service projects! Many organizations require members to preform community service, and it can be hard to figure out what to do sometimes. Next time you go to help out somewhere in the community consider using PVC! From building dog beds and puppy play gyms for an animal shelter to helping a teacher organize their room with easels and shelving, PVC can help make the community a better place.

PVC Projects for Animal Shelters

Below are some DIY projects you can make for animal shelters in your neighborhood.

Build a Comfy Place to Rest with a PVC Dog Bed

Everyone deserves a soft place to lay their head at night, including our canine friends. Help your local animal shelter out by building a PVC dog bed. With some PVC pipes and fittings and durable fabric, these dog beds are easy to make. Find out how to make them here!

Run and Play in a PVC Puppy Play Gym

Puppies are full of energy all of the time. Help out your local animal shelter by building a PVC puppy play gym that is guaranteed to offer the pups hours of entertainment. Best yet, when they get bored of the play gym just swap out the toys that are attached. Check out how to make the puppy play gym here.

PVC Projects for the School

Need ideas for creative donations to schools? Try these projects ideas to give back to the educational system that’s growing your kids’ minds.

Display Projects with Ease with a PVC Art Easel

Easels serve many different purposes and come in all shapes and sizes. From propping up an artist’s works to helping teaches display signs for the whole class to see, they can help in all aspects of the classroom. Use PVC to build sturdy and affordable easels to help out your favorite teacher.

Watch our video on making a table top easel below.

Feeling extra ambitious? Try this floor easel:

Read Out Loud with PVC Whisper Phones

Help students improve their reading skills with PVC whisper phones. Whisper phones are extremely easy to make involving just 3 inches of 3/4” PVC pipe and two ¾” elbows. Holding the whisper phone up just as you would any other phone and then speaking into it allows the user to be heard fully, no matter how loudly they are speaking. This is extremely helpful for children who are just learning how to read and learning new words.

Dance the Day Away with a PVC Ballet Barre

Maybe instead of a classroom teacher you would want to help out your favorite PE or Dance teacher. You can do that by making a ballet barre. Ballet barres are a great way to not only practice your form for ballet, but they offer a stable place to help anyone stretch out. Find instructions on how to build both a single and a double barre here.

PVC Projects for Organization

Below are some simple ways to help keep your local community service centers and shelters organized. Any little bit will make a huge difference.

Hang Your Clothes with Ease on a PVC Clothes Rack

Shelters and community service centers often receive clothing donations, and sometimes the donations received can overflow from normal storage. Help create more storage with this easy PVC clothes rack – it just takes a couple lengths of pipe and a few fittings. And, because its so affordable you can make many without breaking the bank. Check it out here!

Organize All Day with a PVC Storage Bin Organizer

Storage bins are one of the greatest inventions. Seriously, they’re inexpensive and give you space to store just about anything you can imagine. The not so great part about storage bins is that they are a bit bulky and can take up space. Help with that by building a PVC storage bin organizer. The best part about this is you can make it however big or small you need for your space! Check out how to make it here.

Simple and Fun PVC Bike Rack

Since the invention of the bicycle in 1817 they have been a favorite mode of transportation. Finding a place to store it can be problematic. Help solve that problem with a PVC Bike Rack! Check out how to build this bike rack by watching the video below.

PVC Trash Bag Holder

Dealing with the trash is not the job anyone wants to deal with. Make clean up at a shelter or community center a breeze with this PVC garbage bag holder. All you’ll need is:

(4) 27” lengths of 1” pipe
(4) 18” lengths of 1” pipe
(4) 2” lengths of 1” pipe
(2) 12” lengths of 1” pipe
(4) 1” 3-way elbows
(4) 1” elbows

Using the 3-way elbows, take your 12” pipes and two of the 18” pipe and form a rectangle. This is the base of the garbage bag holder. In the open top slip of each elbow place a 27” piece of PVC. On the top of each 27” pipe place an elbow, the side arm running parallel to the 18” PVC pipe below. Connect the side slips with your remaining 18” pipe. In the open top slip of each elbow place your 2” pieces of PVC. Slide the trash bag around the 2” piece on top, and voila!

Helping Our Communities Out

Whether you’re a Boy Scout looking to become an Eagle Scout or just a citizen who wants to help out, there are community service projects to be done everywhere. By using PVC, you can help out a local service by providing quality, inexpensive structures that will last for years to come. Helping others doesn’t have to be hard, and using PVC is a sure way to make it easy.