How to Build a Blue Foam Slip and Slide

This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Huggies®. As always, all opinions are my own.

We made a huge slip n slide for our neighborhood for Memorial Day. The kids {and adults, mainly the DADS} had a BLAST! It's a little messy, but WHO CARES!?!

Items needed:

• 100X10 foot roll of clear visqueen. {We used clear because the black gets too hot and dries the water too fast}
• 10-14 pool noodles {Be bought ours for 94 cents each}
• 30-40 Landscape Pins
• A hose with flowing water
• Tear Free Soap in the brand of your choice {you can use dish soap too, but it hurts when you get it in your eyes}.
• Huggies® Wipes for easy clean up <—essential!

Step 1: Find a hill and roll out the velum.

Step 2. Roll the pool noodles into the side of the plastic. This will help the water on the slip n slide instead of running off the sides.

Roll it 3-4 times.

Step 3: Secure the pool noodles by sticking landscape pins directly through the plastic, the pool noodle, and into the grass.

After securing your landscape pin, it looks like this:

Leave about 10 feet of plastic on the side before rolling the next pool noodle into the plastic. They don't need to be solid all the way down the slip n slide.

Step 4: Wet the entire slip n slide with the hose, and pour a generous amount of tear free soap onto the slip n slide to make it more slippery. {Reapply every 20-30 minutes or so}

The soap can get a bit messy, so make sure to have Huggies® wipes close by for a quick and easy clean.

Step 5: Optional but useful, cover your body with tear free soap to make your body slippery too!

I think the neighborhood Dads may have had more fun than the kids. They timed each other to see who could slip down the slide the fastest!

Beware, if you are getting old like all of the Dads involved in the Slip N Slide race, you WILL have sore ribs the next day! HAHA!

The kids had a blast too! They slid down the slide for more than 3 hours STRAIGHT! And some of them complained when we took it down because they wanted to keep playing.

We kept the end of the plastic as wide a possible in case kids {or adults} didn't stay in the middle of the slip n slide.

Huggies® Wipes came to the rescue more than once! They helped clean up the messes and are by far my favorite wipes brand! I don't even have babies anymore, and I still use them all of the time.

Congratulations to Derek who won the speed contest down the slip n slide! Look at all that grass all over him!! HAHA.

We had one big scrape from a landscape pin coming loose, so make sure to continually check to make sure they are secured properly in the grass!

It was such a fun day. We made lots of memories with our neighbors, and will definitely do it again! The Dads that lost the contest are already strategizing to see how to go FASTER next time.

Overall the project cost less than $50 total! It was well worth every penny!

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Published on June 25, 2018

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Source: https://www.allthingsthrifty.com/how-to-build-a-huge-slip-n-slide-fun-for-all-ages/

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