Need a Watering Solution for Inside brooder

[Midnight Maran Momma]

I've got eight, 6.5 to 8 weeks old, rambunctious birds (big BCMs, E.E.s & little, spazzy Prairie Bluebell Eggers) who are waiting for my husband to get their coop and run made. We've got the wood, just waiting for it to finish drying so we can get started.
My problem is that these chicks are currently in a pack & play, with a plywood floor & a fabric covered top. I've got their water dispensers raised on top of 3" high Tupperware and inside of 1' raised edge cookie sheets, lined with pine pellets & shavings (to soak up their constant spills).
I clean it several times a day because these darling idiots love to play 'queen of the mountain', by standing on top of their watering dishes, and knocking them over.
I went through a 40# bag of pine pellets + 1/2 a big pine shavings pack in under Two Weeks, scooping out soggy sawdust 3-5x a day.
I was using the cheap water dispensers from TSC (yup, I'm new at this!), then switched the plastic tops for glass Mason jars, thinking the weight would help keep them from tipping as easily, but no such luck.
What standing water dispenser will fit in a large cookie sheet (13" x 18"), and NOT tip or leak easily? I can't hang anything until the coop is made, and it can't be too heavy or large.
I know this is a crazy question with a likely impossible working solution, but I'm at my wits end. I love my girls, but if this keeps up, I'm changing their names to Nugget, Tender, Breakfast, Second Breakfast, Elevensies, Lunch, Dinner, and Supper, before they even start laying eggs.
Apologies if this was a little scattered. It's after one a.m., and I haven't found a solution, after hours of searching.
Thank you.

 

[Debbie292d]

You can wrap a wire or metal coat hanger around the neck of a water bottle, stick a vertical nipple in the bottom, and hang it on the edge. You can see ours on the bottom left.

Those are what we use in the indoor brooders too.

Edited to change that to a "vertical" nipple. I had horizontal nipple up there. We have both so I forget my directions lol.

 

[PopoMyers]

Your chicks should be able to figure out a nipple waterer. I simply use a sturdier plastic jug and install 2-3 nipples, and place on top of a cinder block. After putting it in their brooder, show them how it works by using your finger. Once one learns, the others will follow. Remove the other container as well.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Okay we all say nipple I prefer horizontal I pot them on 2 gallon bucket for peeps make a wood or vertical prop to keep them off the top.

 

[Midnight Maran Momma]

I'm picking up a couple of buckets from our local Firehouse Sun shop, this weekend. We got the horizontal watering nipples with the drill bit to help install them. Our coop & run aren't finished yet, as it's either been surface of the sun Hot, or raging thunderstorms outside. Neither are exactly ideal outdoor working conditions, but we're hoping to get the run built this weekend so the chicks can get out & have some space during the day, before going back inside our garage at night. Just until my husband is able to finish the coop so I can get it painted, aired out, & ready for our ladies to start living in it, permanently (solar fans, solar run lighting, food tubes, sand down in coop & run, dust bath... It's literally like bringing home babies. So many details!!
At least the chicks aren't too hot while they're waiting in our garage. I'm keeping busy, cleaning their brooder multiple times a day and taking them out to peck at bugs in the grass (one at a time), keeping them engaged so they're not picking on each other.

 

[DLA]

I'm picking up a couple of buckets from our local Firehouse Sun shop, this weekend. We got the horizontal watering nipples with the drill bit to help install them. Our coop & run aren't finished yet, as it's either been surface of the sun Hot, or raging thunderstorms outside. Neither are exactly ideal outdoor working conditions, but we're hoping to get the run built this weekend so the chicks can get out & have some space during the day, before going back inside our garage at night. Just until my husband is able to finish the coop so I can get it painted, aired out, & ready for our ladies to start living in it, permanently (solar fans, solar run lighting, food tubes, sand down in coop & run, dust bath... It's literally like bringing home babies. So many details!!
At least the chicks aren't too hot while they're waiting in our garage. I'm keeping busy, cleaning their brooder multiple times a day and taking them out to peck at bugs in the grass (one at a time), keeping them engaged so they're not picking on each other.

How did the coop and run turn out and how are your chickens doing? We would love pictures if you'd like to share!