How to Make a Giant 100-Foot Slip and Slide

Is there something extra summer time than a slip and slide?! I undoubtedly slid down my fair proportion of slip and slides as a child.

Just a few summers in the past, my husband and I made a decision to make the most of 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, you may also do that on a flat floor.

The opposite great point is which you could reuse the principle gadgets 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’ll be able to completely injure your self on a slip and slide when being too energetic or reckless, so please go simple and watch out!

Slip and slides could be a family-friendly afternoon of enjoyable for everybody when loved safely at applicable 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 solution 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 ft of plastic sheeting (6 mil thick)
-additional 6 ml of sheeting for splash zone (elective)
–6″ garden stakes
-4-6 hay bales
-hose or sprinkler for water supply (on the high)
-liquid cleaning soap (elective) *one thing pure like this can be a good thought so it gained’t damage your garden

First, lay out your 100-foot plastic sheet on the yard. Lay out your pool noodles on either side 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 slightly area between them, it’s superb.

With one individual working either side of the slide, roll your pool noodles into the plastic sheet so the noodles are slightly greater than totally wrapped inside it.

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

Transfer onto the following noodle and work your method down the slide as somebody rolls and stakes the other 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 slightly stopping level on the finish of your slide since they’re strong (however forgiving) in case you hit into them on the finish. In addition they make slightly 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 should use a separate piece of plastic sheet in case you have one other one and canopy over the entire thing first, tucking all the additional beneath 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 could be a little scratchy to hit into along 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 bathe setting and laid it on the high of our slide for our water supply. You actually don’t want a whole lot of water to get happening 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 slightly cleaning soap in your physique, a raft, or the slide also can assist, however don’t go loopy—you simply want slightly bit! Be certain that 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 solution to go down the slide, they usually give slightly extra cushion. Youngsters love them, too!

I strongly counsel utilizing the 6″ lengthy 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 means of the celebration and hit again down any stakes that have been making an attempt 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 wish 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 following time you go to make use of it.

You possibly can hold the slide over porch railings, outside chairs, or a fence, however you actually need it to be fairly dry earlier than placing it away (you’ll be able to 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 continually) or you should 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 mates! And I’m so pleased 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 an amazing water supply for the highest of your slide!

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

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