With Summer time upon us thoughts turn to spending more time outdoors. For youngsters in particular it is a chance to play outside and the warm weather will surely persuade them to relax their grip on the Xbox controller or Wii nunchuk and spend more time outdoors. Better still a swimming pool is a definite way to get kids playing outside during the summer time. Make their swimming pool pleasure much more appealing with an inflatable pool slide.

Inflatable pool slides fit into two categories. You have the slides which are used with an existing swimming pool and those that are standalone.

Standalone slides are usually quite elaborate set ups which have their own splash pool and are known as an inflatable water park. These are pretty awesome toys for youngsters – think bouncy castle with water. In reality, any kid in the area that gets an inflatable water park will likely be the most popular kid going.

The other type of standalone slide is the slippy slide that is simply a long sheet of PVC which is placed on the ground. A device is attached to it to ensure that water run along the sheet keeping it slick and perfect for sliding along. You could even create this sort of slide yourself with the aforementioned PVC sheet plus a sprinkler system but genuine slippy slide products had added extra features to make their slippy slides more pleasurable.

As an illustration, there are a few twin slippy slides that let 2 kids to race each other. There’s a flag at the end and the first kid to grab the flag is the winner. This aspect of competition is certain to have the kids playing all day.

The inflatable water park type toys are large and often have more than one slide. They have other things for the children to try and do also. They may have water cannons, basket ball hoops and tunnels to spark your children’s imagination. These inflatables are sort of a bouncy castle, in that there is a air blower going constantly to keep the structure inflated. They are not as easy to set up like a slippy slide although there is lots more to do on them. They’re also more expensive.

The last sort of inflatable pool slide we will talk about is the one that you utilize with an in ground swimming pool. These items are relatively straightforward to set up and operate. You merely fill with air by means of an air compressor and fix them down with guide ropes and some counterbalance. After that you’ll be ready to go.

The slide needs to be positioned on the edge of the pool. It isn’t as elaborate as an inflatable water park and also the slide will not be as long nevertheless it is straightforward to make use of and is still great fun.