Sliding down a hill with no snow. How?

[tammyw]

Okay, so we live in Hawaii, and we have a great hill behind our house. Some of the kids ride a big wheels down the hill and it actually looks fun (while I cringe at the thought of my own almost 5 yr old daughter going down, lol! Scary!)

Anyway, I have great memories of going down the big hills in Canada, lots of snow, crazy carpet (like a plastic sled, really slippery) and it was so much fun. This afternoon we had the kids go down on a big piece of cardboard and they enjoyed it, but it wasn't nearly fast enough. Any suggestions for something that might be faster and more slippery than cardboard?

[CookieMonsterMommy]

What about that super thick plastic they use for construction....not sure what it's called...but I could ask my father tomorrow...

[fierrbugg]

When I was in high school I remember an adult supervised activity (at church) where we took big blocks of ice, placed towels on top of them, and slid down hills. Not sure how safe that is, though.

[MsBirdie]

In AZ, ice block sledding is big here also:

[nonconformnmom]

Yep, we used to do that with ice blocks, we called it "icing". We did it as part of an organized church youth group activity, so it must be reasonably safe. I recall having a great time doing it!

[meowmix]

Well, if it is muddy enough it can be done. That's what my son and his friend did after a particularly rainy morning and the hill was all muddy. They had great fun "sledding" down the mud. it wasn't as good as snow, but I can't believe it worked! I don't know how dirty covered your hill is, but I bet you could get it muddy and those disk sleds would work.

[the_lissa]

What about using a slip and slide. We did that this summer down a small hill and the kids enjoyed it.

[TEAK's Mom]

Ice blocking is fun. Another trick you can do is put a garbage can lid full of water in the chest freezer and "sled" on it. It doesn't last as long, but it does keep your pants drier.

[mamalisa]

We have a big hill out back and the kids go down it all year round on plastic sleds. But now that I've said that, they probably don't sell sleds in Hawaii, duh

[joandsarah77]

You could try grass skiing. They do it here is Australia and I bet they do it in Hawaii too. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eC4yBjWdeI

[gsd1amommy]

"down on a big piece of cardboard "

Wax the back of the cardboard with a brand new bar of soap. Be generous with the "waxing". This may help alot.

[rsps]

haven't tried it, but here's a "summer sled"

http://ssl.adgrafix.com/cgi-bin/chec...erslSTORE:home

[tammyw]

Well today all the kids went down in our small hard baby pool. They had sooooo much fun (seven kids was the max at one time, lol!) It didn't go overly fast, but they loved it. I think ordering a plastic circle sled online would work well, especially if waxed up a bit. We also talked about getting some visqueen (construction plastic) and using the hose at the top and then they could slide down in their swimming suits. that would be so much fun (for adults too, tee hee!)

That one sled looks really cool, but it's for 8+ and all the kids are like 2-5 for the most part. Heck, even my 18 month old got into the action and went down a couple times in the pool!

[poisonedpenny]

There used to be a HUGE HUGE hill at the summer camp I went to as a kid. A couple of times a summer they'd take about 20 plastic tarps and line them down the hill and for a few feet at the bottom (making sure each tarp overlapped by about a foot). They'd stake them down at the corners. Then they'd put a hose at the top and make the whole makeshift-slide very wet. Then we'd just slide down with just our swimsuits on. It was sometimes a bumpy ride, and there was a bit of a dip in the middle so the kids would sometimes fly up a little after hitting that stretch. But it was tons of fun back then, and I remember racing back up the hill over and over to go again.