slip-n-slide

Sep 15, 2012

My friend Robin made a huge slip-n-slide out of a billboard and some of their friends made one out of viqueen. She raved about how fabulous it was and I decided I wanted to do it for our iFamily Opening Social, but because it was injection week I didn’t really do much about it except think.

On Wednesday, during iFamily, I checked the weather for the next 10 days and figured out that Friday was going to be the only day we could do it. So I hurriedly conducted a poll of the eight or so mothers who were nearby the couch I was lying on and we decided we should go for it. Jennifer volunteered to buy the $36 of visqeen, I called the city to arrange for rental of the spigot, and another Jennifer ran over to Parks & Rec to sign all the paperwork.

The weather was perfect, the kids had a blast, and I think we will make it an annual event. I can’t wait to do it when I can actually slide with all the kids (this time I was a very good girl and laid down and watched, yes, watched!). Next time we will have even more visqueen and I think we should make a super steep slide for the big kids and adults who are mega-adventurous.

So. much. fun.

 

If you want to make your own slip-n-slide, buy at least 4 mil visqueen (plastic sheeting) in whatever length you want. Ours was 8 ft. x 100 ft. I think 200 ft. would be perfect and possibly 10 ft. wide would have been better, but ours was wonderful and totally got the job done. Our 4 mil. did rip in one spot, so maybe 6 mil. would be a better choice, but all of that starts getting real expensive, so I guess you just have to decide what it is worth to you. We had hoses dumping water at three spots down the 100 feet and that seemed to work pretty well. About an hour into it, we put some baby shampoo all over the place to make it more slippery. It was too slippery for our youngest sliders, but perfect for anyone ten and up.