The invention relates to a water column forming method of a spherical molecular sieve. The water column forming method is characterized by comprising the following steps: 1, beating a molecular sieve, a binding agent and water uniformly; 2, adding an alginate solution, and stirring uniformly at high speed to prepare a suspended sizing agent; 3, dropping the suspended sizing agent to a polyvalent metal cation water solution to form gel particles; and 4, taking the gel particles out, drying and roasting to obtain the product, wherein the dry-basis mass rate of the molecular sieve to the binding agent in the step 1 is (0.2-3):1, and the binding agent is alumina hydrogel, nanometer aluminum oxide sol or silica sol; the soluble alginate in the step 2 is one or more of sodium alginate, potassium alginate, magnesium alginate and ammonium alginate, the content of alginate in the suspended sizing agent is 0.3-5w%, and total dry-basis content of the molecular sieve and the binding agent in the suspended sizing agent is 5-30w%; the polyvalent metal cation water solution in the step 3 is a saline solution containing aluminum, zinc, calcium, copper, ferrum, ferrous, cobalt, manganese or nickel ions, with the saturation concentration being 0.1mol/L.