Water Slides

Slide Guide

Create a Water Slide for a sunny-day activity

What do 225 feet of pure, liquid awesomeness feel like when it’s 105 degrees outside and you’re zooming downhill with your arms stretched out like Superman, being sprayed by the hundred streaming water spouts and landing in a bodacious, cataclysmic splashdown?  Answer: Cardiac Falls at Kanakuk Kamps in Branson, MO.

Gather the Materials

To include one of these awesome slides in your camp, you’ll need:

• A sheet of vinyl up to 15 feet wide and 225 feet long
• Sand
• Foam (optional)
• Water
• A group of Campers

Make the Slide

Perhaps the most crucial element of the slide is the vinyl.  As many of you know, youth camps are hard on equipment and property due to the volume of people who pass through in a short amount of time.  So, not just any old piece of plastic or vinyl will do. Kanakuk acquires it Water Slide vinyl from Springfield Special Products in Springfield Missouri, “the same company that makes the Blob.”

There wouldn’t be any enjoyment sliding down the vinyl without the presence of water, but with such a long stretch of vinyl, a trickle from a hose won’t suffice.

PVC pipe can be mounted along the sides so riders are sprayed all the way down.  At the bottom of the slide, you may want a catch pool to provide adequate braking as well as the thrilling splashdown.