Easy Homemade Water Slide For The Backyard
How to make a homemade water slide for your backyard play space using a camping tarp, garden hose and a bottle of cheap shampoo!
The hooligans and I love it when the temperatures turn warm in the spring because that’s when we start in with our simple water play activities.
A homemade slip and slide is one of my favourite ways to keep the kids entertained for hours in the yard in summertime.
No need to buy a slip and slide
There’s no need to buy a slip and slide for your backyard when a homemade water slide is so easy to make. It won’t cost you more than the price of an inexpensive camping tarp, and it will provide your kids with hours and hours of good, old-fashioned fun.
I’ve been making these water slides since my own teenage boys were young.
How to make a homemade water slide:
There are a couple of things you can use to make a homemade water slide.
Sometimes I use the heavy-duty clear plastic that we line our backyard skating rink with. It’s really sturdy and super-slippery.
Today I’m using a basic camping tarp. Both the clear plastic sheeting and these camping tarps are available at most hardware stores.
I spread the tarp out over a small slope in the yard, hung the garden hose up over the clothes-line, and chose a light spray setting. I used that little clip thingy on the hose nozzle to hold the trigger down so the hose would stay on.
Then I drizzled some cheap shampoo over the tarp to make it slippery. You don’t want to miss this step. The kids won’t be able to really slide without it. Just pick up a bottle of shampoo or dish detergent at the dollar store. You don’t want to spend much because you’re going to use a lot of it keeping the tarp slippery. We went through the whole bottle today, but I got it for a dollar so no biggie.
And that, my friends, is how you make a homemade waterslide with a tarp, and a garden hose.
I told you it was easy! 🙂
Check out how much fun they had! The kids spent the whole morning slipping and sliding.
Now that you know how easy it is to make a home water slide, your kids can slip and slide anytime they want in your own backyard.
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Jackie is a mom, wife, home daycare provider, and the creative spirit behind Happy Hooligans. She specializes in kids’ crafts and activities, easy recipes, and parenting. She began blogging in 2011, and today, Happy Hooligans inspires more than 2 million parents, caregivers and Early Years Professionals all over the globe.
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