Oh my! I'm sure that's way funnier to picture than to clean up, but that's hilarious!You can use the ball in the water dish as well as the food dish. Just make sure you get one that floats.
Our Layla snorkels in her water bucket. She will start out drinking and then for some reason we haven't quiet figured out she will submerge her entire snout (up to her eyes) and blow a few bubbles and then pull her head back out and let water run EVERYWHERE.