How to Make a Giant 100-Foot Slip and Slide

Is there something extra summer time than a slip and slide?! I positively slid down my justifiable share of slip and slides as a child.

A couple of summers in the past, my husband and I made a decision to benefit from our sloped yard and gathered the provides for a large 100-foot slip and slide. This DIY is ideal for the entire household!

It’s fairly fast to arrange, and whereas a sloped yard is tremendous useful, it’s also possible to do that on a flat floor.

The opposite great point is that you would be able to reuse the primary objects yr after yr, and even use them for different issues as effectively! We introduced ours with us in our transfer from Nashville and set it up once more in our entrance yard right here in Pittsburgh.

And simply a really clear security warning, you may completely injure your self on a slip and slide when being too energetic or reckless, so please go straightforward and watch out!

Slip and slides generally is a family-friendly afternoon of enjoyable for everybody when loved safely at acceptable speeds, however I believe everybody has additionally heard a slide-related harm story, so be good and use logic—particularly when youngsters are current. One individual at a time is the most secure technique to slide.

OK, right here’s how we made our personal large slip and slide!

Provides:
-box of pool noodles (you’ll need about 30-35 noodles)
–100 feet of plastic sheeting (6 mil thick)
-additional 6 ml of sheeting for splash zone (optionally available)
–6″ lawn stakes
-4-6 hay bales
-hose or sprinkler for water supply (on the high)
-liquid cleaning soap (optionally available) *one thing natural like this is a good suggestion so it gained’t damage your garden

First, lay out your 100-foot plastic sheet on the yard. Lay out your pool noodles on both sides of the sheet, saving one or two for the very high of the slide.

Ideally, you need your noodles to put end-to-end down the perimeters, but when there’s just a little house between them, it’s superb.

With one individual working both sides of the slide, roll your pool noodles into the plastic sheet so the noodles are just a little greater than totally wrapped inside it.

Use your 6″ garden stakes to maintain your noodles in place (you’ll need a minimum of two per noodle). You may need to use a rubber mallet to totally hit them into the bottom.

Transfer onto the subsequent noodle and work your method down the slide as somebody rolls and stakes the alternative facet as you go. As soon as all of your noodles are in, roll a noodle into the highest of the plastic and stake it in place so the highest is secured.

We discovered that hay bales are a good way to make just a little stopping level on the finish of your slide since they’re stable (however forgiving) in case you hit into them on the finish. Additionally they make just a little splash zone on the finish, which is sort of enjoyable!

Set your hay bales up in a semi-circle on the finish of your slide and pull the underside of your lengthy plastic sheet up and over the bales and safe with stakes on the opposite facet. You possibly can go into the underside again of the hay bales or the bottom.

Or you need to use a separate piece of plastic sheet you probably have one other one and canopy over the entire thing first, tucking all the additional below the bales. Then, pull the underside of your lengthy plastic sheet up and over.

The additional sheets are inclined to maintain the bales in place and canopy over all of the hay, which generally is a little scratchy to hit into together with your naked pores and skin.

As soon as your slip and slide is in place, it’s time so as to add water and begin sliding! We arrange our hose nozzle on the shower setting and laid it on the high of our slide for our water supply. You actually don’t want loads of water to get occurring the slide, so discover the bottom setting that also permits you to have sufficient to slip on.

Ought to I take advantage of cleaning soap on the slip and slide?

Placing down just a little cleaning soap in your physique, a raft, or the slide also can assist, however don’t go loopy—you simply want just a little bit! Be sure to show off the water if nobody is sliding or in case you take a snack break to preserve use.

Blowing up some pool rafts can be a enjoyable technique to go down the slide, they usually give just a little extra cushion. Children love them, too!

I strongly counsel utilizing the 6″ long stakes since they’re much much less prone to come out or be a security hazard. I went round with a rubber mallet midway by the occasion and hit again down any stakes that had been attempting to return up, simply to be protected.

How do you take away and dry the slip and slide?

When it’s time to tear down the slide, pull out all of the stakes and unwrap the pool noodles. Let the noodles totally air dry earlier than placing them away again of their field. The toughest a part of the slip and slide course of is drying out your lengthy slide earlier than placing it away.

You’ll need to get it up off the bottom so each side are dry earlier than you set it away—that method, you don’t pull out a gross moldy tarp the subsequent time you go to make use of it.

You possibly can hold the slide over porch railings, outside chairs, or a fence, however you really need it to be fairly dry earlier than placing it away (you may towel off areas as wanted).

The hay bales can be utilized within the yard for landscaping functions (we’ve been rising grass and reseeding patches always) or you need to use them for bonfire seating or fall decor because it will get later within the season!

This was such a enjoyable summer time afternoon for us and our pals! And I’m so comfortable we blew up our rainbow arch sprinkler for the highest because the entry level. We used it extra for appears that day—a sprinkler may also be a fantastic water supply for the highest of your slide!

I hope you loved seeing one in all our favourite summer time traditions! xo. Laura

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