Inflatable water slides are, without question, a fantastic source of entertainment and exhilaration for children during those hot summer months. These water slides are constructed by taking the vinyl material from bounce houses or moonwalks, sewing them multiple times over to build up a water resistance, and then manufactured in the shape of a water slide one would see at a public pool or amusement park. These slides can typically only support one rider at a time as they slide down the slippery slope into a shallow pool of water at the bottom, but no slide has a strict weight limit, and users can ride the water slide as often as they wish.

While standard water slides can provide fun for many people at a summer party, they have rarely been able to safely contain multiple people at the same time. However, advancements made by inflatable device designers have led to the creation of new types of these slides, with the sole purpose of thrilling as many people as possible. A common feature that can be found in certain inflatable water slides is having multiple slides in the same inflatable structure, positioned side-by-side. Putting multiple identical slides in the same inflatable allows more swimmers to use these slides at the same time, because more slides means more sewing took place during construction to strengthen and increase the weight limit. Prime examples of the “racer” water slides are the Inflatable 14’ Dual Lane Slide. However, you should keep in mind that unless there is a clear divider separating the downward slope, never attempt to send multiple people down the slide on a device that is not built for it. This reckless action will only lead to on-slide collisions and injuries. You should also never attempt to slide down the stairs or steps that led you to the top of the slope to avoid potential injury to yourself and others climbing up the stairs.

The presence of multiple slides in the same inflatable water slide also allows pool users to play additional games and activities while cooling off on their slide. Children of all ages can hold races with their friends, seeing who among them is the fastest down the slide. Children can also just use these slides for fun and relaxation if they’re not up for competition and racing, but the option is always there. These inflatable water slides are versatile, and long-lasting, too, due to the heavy-duty sewing job performed during construction. Racing your friends and family through water is not limited to water slides. There are inflatable structures such as the Inflatable Palm Tree Arch Dual Lane Slide that also feature the two-lane slide system, but no slope to climb to get to the starting line. Whoever can slide their way to the finish line (or, in this case, finish pool) first wins the race! When it comes to summer fun and relaxation, inflatable water slides offer an incredibly wide variety of designs and activities to satisfy any summer swimmer. Definitely consider inflatable water slides if you’re looking to cool off, and especially if you’re looking for fun and excitement.

Magic tricks are part of a performance that can provide great spectable, and can be incredibly entertaining to all ages. We’ve all wondered at one point how a magician managed to make his special trick work, and would later fantasize about one day being able to pull off performing magic tricks ourselves. However, the love of magic and all of its spectacle does not end with pulling a rabbit out of a hat. One of the most cherished genres of fiction is the fantasy genre. So many movies and television shows now exist that treat viewers to a incredible world, filled with incredible tales of magic, spells, wizards, monsters, castles, and quests, to name just a few features that draw in the average person to fantasy. The popularity of these movies and shows is unlikely to calm down anytime soon, and, as always, bounce house designers and manufacturers have been paying close attention. Now, to match this popular trend, there are bounce houses out there with themes of wizards and magic to appeal to all of us who have ever loved magic and a fantasy world, all in the comfort of your own backyard.

While bounce houses with magical themes are slowly popping up in moonwalk stores, catalogs, and web sites all over the world, the most popular, prime example of bounce houses with magic themes is the Wizard Magic Bouncer. The main visual draw of the device is the four wizard hats, placed on each of the four pillar corners of the device. The purple, starry hats, combined with the yellow and blue woven oxford cloth fabric that make up the main bouncing zone, do a fantastic job of drawing in the eager and curious users inside of the bouncing area. The dimensions of the Wizard Magic Bouncer are just small enough to allow it to fit inside virtually any room in your house. The bounce house will have room to naturally shift around the area without colliding with any indoor wall, product, or appliance. Remember: the natural shifting of bounce houses is not real magic, despite what it may look like!

Once you have your bounce house with a magical theme set up in your yard, there’s almost nothing you can do to stop the imagination of the bounce house users from letting their imagination loose on the bouncing area. You’ll rarely find any child in a bounce house that is not interested in bouncing, or not interested in creating their own activities through their imagination. There are several games that young, aspiring magicians and wizards can play inside of the bouncing area. One of the most common activities is pretending that you and your friends really are wizards, and with each leap in the air off the mat, the users are really being launched into the air by a “magic spell” cast by fellow bouncers. Users can also pretend to fly around on broomsticks while exploring the bouncing area, leading to a modified version of “tag”. If nothing else, users can just have fun bouncing and leaping around in their own personal inflatable device, with only the sunset at the end of the day putting an end to the festivities.

Bounce houses and other inflatable devices can provide you and your family with the most exciting and fun-filled times of spring and summer that you will ever have. However, while they are all fun and exciting as can be, they are not indestructible products. They should be treated with the utmost care and safety while inflating, deflating, and during use, each and every single time. Bounce houses, regardless of size or type, are susceptible to being punctured by certain sharp objects. Likewise, the accessories that help the inflatable devices function can begin to falter or cease to work eventually, after many, many years of use at bounce house set-up sites. However, a common complaint from current, new, and potential owners of inflatable devices is that the replacement parts for the bounce houses accessories can be somewhat hard to find.

The amount of accessories and helpful products that can eventually malfunction on your bounce house is not exactly a short list, but it is not too long to make buying a bounce house not worth the time or effort. Objects like the blower, the stakes that secure the bounce house to the ground, or sandbags, among others, can all potentially need replacing if not handled properly. The problem that some bounce house owners come by is that some of these bounce house pieces are not available at every single bounce house supplier or retailer. This can be a result of many different things:  for instance, the company may be relatively new to the industry and may not have a product list that matches the larger companies with many more years of experience before them. An alternate reason might be that the products may be temporarily out of stock due to the high demand at the time. A frequent checking of the product’s availability can confirm if this is temporary or not.

If you are need of these products, and cannot find replacements at the original purchase location, don’t worry. There are several different steps you can take to track down your product, with help from many different people in the business. Contact the original supplier of your bounce house product, and they will more than likely assist you in your search, informing you of any location that they know of that have the products. Don’t be afraid to seek out assistance from other web sites, as well. Use the internet to search for alternate web sites, supply stores, and bounce house companies in your area, or who ship their products out from a relatively close location. Do your research, and you will eventually be able to find the best quality products from quality web sites and companies, all for inexpensive prices. As soon as you do, you’ll be able to replace the defective piece on your bounce house and get back to jumping, soaring and leaping through the air in no time!

The set-up process that all bounce house owners must carry out before bouncing may begin is highly important to the day’s events. When you’re setting up a bounce house, you’re laying the foundation for a massive inflatable device which not only has to stay put for the entire day, but also must be capable of remaining safe for the users of the bounce house jumping all day long. The ground beneath the bounce house must be up to the task. When inspecting the ground for an ideal location, make sure that you plan out your yard and make note of any imperfections in the property that could cause the set-up site to potentially come undone. The specifics of your set-up site will differ from location to location, but there are several guidelines to follow when planning out your bouncing site.

There are several features you can detect in the ground, either on the grass or on concrete that should set off a red flag and discourage you from setting up in that location. When inspecting the grass, make sure that the lawn is in good, healthy condition. Brown or faded pieces of grass can often be paired with dried-up, uncared-for soil underneath the surface. If you attempt to hammer your bounce house stakes into a dying landscape, you’ll find that the stake may not stay put in the ground, coming loose in the poor conditions of the soil. Any grass that you decide to inflate the bounce house on should be in good condition, frequently watered and shining bright underneath the sun’s rays. If you find a good healthy location for set-up and want to make sure that the ground stays in good condition during and after the bounce house is inflated on top of it,  consider laying a tarp down upon the grass site and setting up the bounce house on top. The tarp will absorb most of the friction and heavy eight from the inflatable device and all who use it, preserving the grass beneath as best it can.

If you’re setting up upon concrete, there are many ways to inspect the ground to make sure that the bouncer does not become weakened, or even accidentally burst under the pressure. Any piece of land with blatant imperfections, such as cracks in the pavement or high amounts of gravel, should definitely be avoided. You should attempt to find the flattest, most level piece of land you can if setting up on pavement. The ground does not have to be deep or rich because you’re not driving stakes into concrete to hold the bouncer in place; you’re weighing it down with heavy sandbags. Bring a level to the proposed set-up location and make sure that there is no obvious slope to the ground. If the pavement of the area is not 100% flat, find a piece that is as close as possible. A slanted ground underneath a bounce house can possibly cause it to slide out of position, even with sandbags holding it down. This could potentially cause the polyvinyl chloride or oxford cloth to become scratched or gritty. The best sort of set-up locations on outdoor pavement is newly renovated and paved parking lots. These are far less likely to have old imperfections, and are often flatter than any surrounding location.

Remember that finding the set-up location is one of the most important parts of the day. An uneven foundation for your inflatable device can cause the bounce house to become stressed, and can even causes the entire set-up to fall apart before your eyes, leading to possible emergency and injuries. If you put in the extra effort ahead of time to plan out the best possible ground, you will be rewarded with day after day of worry-free bouncing and leaping for all users.

While bounce houses can be a terrific source of springtime and summertime entertainment, there will always be natural elements that can find ways to hinder or prevent your bouncing fun. Poor weather is a common culprit, but, over time, you will find that insects are the more annoying, frequent culprit of bounce house blues. As the summer temperatures rise, bugs and insects begin to show up more frequently around your area, and will likely become drawn to your bounce house party and celebration. While these pests may frustrate your fellow bouncing guests, there are several ways to fight and prevent bugs from sticking around, or surviving past the day. Many potential and current bounce house owners want to know if using bug spray around a bounce house is safe and effective against any potential insect pest.

There are certain chemicals and products that could potentially pose a threat to the quality of your bounce house’s fabric. Fortunately for you and anyone who uses your bounce house, common bug spray is not one of them. If a large amount of bugs has hit your area and are hovering around your bounce house, do not hesitate to apply bug spray before entering the main bouncing area. Share your bug spray with anyone who thinks they need protection. Just keep in mind that since you will all be in the same area, you won’t need to use the whole bottle to effectively prevent bugs from pestering you. Less can be more in some scenarios. Sometimes, if the swarm of insects is bad enough, owners of bounce houses will spray down the walls of the bouncing area before letting people enter the main area. This will not cause degradation of the fabric, and may be safe, but it is still recommended that you spray yourself rather than the walls themselves. If you spray the walls, they will need to be washed after the bounce house has been deflated later in the day, and it is hard getting the scent of the bug spray out of the fabric.

Make sure that you inspect which chemicals are in your chosen bug spray. The higher levels of toxicity, the less likely the bounce house will be able to stand up to it, inflated or deflated. You should use insect repellant products around your bounce house, rather than insect killing sprays and products. The toxins and chemicals in the killing spray may cause the users of your bounce house to become sick. Also, the inflatable device’s fabric is almost guaranteed to come apart with the right combination of harmful chemicals. If high-chemical products were to be sprayed directly on the walls of your bounce house, the chances of the fabric giving way are all but guaranteed, causing holes in the fabric, which will then lead to instant deflation.

Bounce houses are, without question, one of the most incredible recreational devices you can have in your household. They increase your daily physical activity, and are appealing to all ages and sizes. While bounce houses and inflatable devices are quite popular these days, a common concern from new and potential buyers is the price of the inflatable devices, as well as the price of the accessories and replacement parts. As fun and exciting as bounce houses are, for some, they can be a big investment, and wanting to know how much their ideal bounce house will cost is simply a smart financial decision.

There is no “set-in-stone” price for any specific type of bounce house. Every bounce house has its own unique shape, design style, theme, or technique used during construction that can alter the price in its own specific way. Depending on the type of bounce house, the price can differ even more than usual. For instance, standard bounce houses have separate pricings depending on whether or not the bounce house is residential or commercial. Residential bounce houses will cost around $400 on average, with specific pricings ranging from $200-$600. Bounce houses designed for commercial use, on the other hand, can cost anywhere from $1000-$3000, leaving an average of about $2000. As mentioned, there are many different factors that determine the cost of each bounce house, with the size and the amount of elaborate detail present in the inflatable device’s theme. Make sure that you are aware of the differences when considering the best bounce house for you and your location.

Other types of inflatable devices also have varying prices, which are not necessarily under the same price points as the residential and commercial bounce houses. Inflatable water slides and water parks, for instance, have an average price of about $3500, as a result of their towering size when fully inflated, not to mention the amount of work that goes into constructing an inflatable device that is consistently water resistant. Inflatable devices built on a larger scale, such as obstacle courses, will always have a higher price than any other kind. The average price of an obstacle course is around $5000, with some prices reaching as high as $7000, depending on the amount of space that they take up when fully inflated. The absolutely massive size of these structures, combined with the amount of people and accessories that are required to keep them functioning at peak performance, necessitate the large price point.

Bounce house accessories will always be less expensive than the actual bounce houses would be. Products like a Tear-Aid Patch or Roll or sandbags for indoor bounce house use cost, at maximum, $30; anything more would be a disingenuous. Replacement blowers to power and inflate your bounce house cost anywhere from $100-$200, depending on the size of the bounce house that they are powering. While these products may not cost as much as the bounce houses they compliment, they are still a valuable piece of the bounce house equation. Regardless of the price you pay for your bounce house, the amount of enjoyment and fun you, your friends, and your family get out of the device will always be worth it.

A dream shared by children all across the country and all over the world is one day getting their driver’s license. Being knowledgeable and responsible enough to have their own car, in addition to the freedom of being able to go wherever you want, are what all those without licenses fantasize about. Now, children and anyone with a passion for bounce houses can at least partially bring their dreams to life in their own backyard. Bounce houses and inflatable devices with car themes are among some of the more popular today, and the amount of inflatable products with an automotive theme grows every single day.

Cars are beloved by all kinds of people of all ages. They are, after all, the major form of transportation in this country. Automobile repair is a major industry in this country, and tuning and fixing up old cars is a hobby shared by so many of us, many of us next-door neighbors. While it’s plain to see why adults love cars, with children, it’s mostly in the mind. A frequent daydream that many children share is what it would be like to drive their own car. The freedom of speeding down the highway with friends, traveling wherever they please, without having to ask permission from others is often the main motivation for imagination. Miniature toy cars are always among the highest selling toys year in and year out because of these fantasies. Beyond any good imagination, children fantasize about being able to drive because it means that they’ve become responsible enough teenagers to be allowed a permit, and later, a license. Anyone with children of their own can see these feelings and dreams present all of the time, and bounce house designers and manufacturers have taken note.

Because of their massive appeal, bounce houses that resemble or involve cars are often among the best-selling inflatable devices each year. The majority of car-themed bounce houses are often combo bouncers, allowing for more people to use them and their varying features simultaneously. Bounce houses with a car theme often share similar features and concepts to appeal to as many people as possible at once. With car-themed inflatables, you will frequently find that they have been designed to look like a racetrack. Cars racing for fame and trophies, as seen in NASCAR and the Indy 500, among others, are widely acknowledged and hold massive appeal and interest all around the country and world. For instance, the Race Car Inflatable Combo Jumper allows its users to imagine speeding around a race course while bouncing and sliding within the inflatable walls.

Other forms of automobiles are represented by inflatable products, as well. Anyone who loves the thrill and the spectacle of monster truck rallies can bring that passion and excitement to their backyard. There are multiple monster truck bounce houses out there for purchase, such as the 13ft x 13ft Inflatable Monster Truck Jumper or the combo jumper of the same theme promise the excitement of a giant car rally, all while managing to withstand even the rowdiest, excitable group of car and bounce house enthusiasts.

There are many factors to consider when you are searching for a bounce house to use for the spring and summer months. Some of the most important features of a bounce house can be related to what the bounce house looks like. Things like the length, width, height, and overall size, among others, are highly important factors that can make or break the sales of inflatable devices. In addition to physical features, the aesthetic value of your bounce house may also be important. Everyone has a favorite color, and for some owners, having just the right colors on your bounce house could be a major deal breaker for certain customers.

When it comes to bounce houses, you can find a bounce house for every color in the rainbow. You don’t have to look hard at all to find a combination of colors that appeals to you, or fits in your yard just right. But which color is the most popular? Some of the more popular colors for bounce houses include blue and green. This is a result of so many bounce houses carrying specific themes that work well with certain colors. Ocean bounce houses are almost always blue, jungle-themed bounce houses are almost green, and so on. Red can also be used for car-themed bounce houses, such as racecars and fire trucks. However, there is really no 100% accurate way to tell which is the most popular, as it changes every single year with the times and the trends of the country.

There is no chart that tracks the sales of bounce houses by color, so there will never be a definite way to outright state and prove which color is the most popular among bounce houses. Bounce house companies would have to simply look at the themes that pop up over the years, notice trends, and build new bounce houses accordingly. Part of the charm of inflatable devices is the ability of their designers and manufacturers to pick just the right combination of colors to create memorable themes and to bring a user’s imagination to life. An option that manufacturers often use when creating certain new structures is to use all the colors of the rainbow for the fabric design. Bounce houses with a full rainbow color scheme use each color equally and evenly to not only appeal to all sorts of different people, but to also bring out the most vibrant imaginations among the users. One minute, people can be high above the earth, bouncing on a rainbow in the clouds; the next minute, they can be in a fantasy castle on display, and so on. These jump houses are also all but guaranteed to have the owner or their children’s favorite color somewhere in the mix, with red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple fabric shining brightly and on display for all to see. It’s gorgeous to look at and so much fun to actually use.

Bounce houses have extraordinary appeal to everyone, regardless of age or gender. The bright, magnificent colors and themes present in each inflatable device are one of the major sources of this appeal, and can draw in crowds of friends and family to your next bounce house event However, these wonderful colors should be chosen and added to the inflatable device by the bounce house designers and manufacturers, not the owners. There have been documented events of children, and occasionally, bounce house owners, painting their bounce house. This activity is potentially harmful to your bounce house and should definitely be avoided.

It is never a good idea to try and paint your bounce house for any reason, even though there are multiple reasons why people try and add color anyway. Sometimes, it’s a result of these owners wanting to add their own theme to the bounce house, or wanting to “revitalize” any fading colors in the fabric by painting over them with brighter colors. If the paint has faded on your bounce house, it’s not something that can be fixed with paint. The inflatable bouncer may just be very old, or in need of a replacement. Other times, it’s a result of boredom, or the children of bounce house owners using their watercolors or other similar products in places that they shouldn’t be. Supervision by parents around a bounce house is key, both inside and outside the structure. In either scenario, when the bounce house is deflated, even if the paint were to dry, it would still fall apart or become smudged beyond recognition when the bounce house is deflated and packed away at the end of the day.

Even if you were a master artist, painting between the lines or adding your own design to the bounce house’s outer fabric, you can still threaten the quality of the fabric by adding paint where it shouldn’t be added. Regardless of the fabric that is present, bounce houses are susceptible to significant damage from the presence of paint on the device’s surface, and the more paint, the more likely the chance of degradation. Lead-based paint is the worst in this regard. If lead-based paint were to come into contact with your bounce house’s materials, it would begin to deteriorate within a day. Even if you were to add a Tear-Aid patch over the hole in the fabric, the presence of the lead materials would still be present. In many cases, it may become very hard to wash out the chemicals embedded in the fabric, if at all. It’s an unnecessary risk for your moonwalk, and even if you were to successfully add paint to the outside of the device, the quality would be negligible at best.

Bounce houses and paint simply don’t mix, and attempting to combine the two in spite of this fact is dangerous to the safety and well being of your bounce house set-up location. However, paint does not necessarily have to be an automatic bounce house destroyer. Fairgrounds and festivals will often have face painting stations or similar art attractions in the same location as their bounce house set-up site. Often, children who get their face painted will go bouncing in the moonwalk on the same day at some point. So long as the paint on their face is dry, and no one was to start an art project on the inflatable device during down time, this scenario is not a problem.

Bounce houses can absolutely be considered some of the best sources of summer and spring entertainment available. One of the best things one can genuinely say about the bounce house industry is its constant strides of ingenuity and innovation. Bounce houses are created and released every month with the purpose of creating an unforgettable adventure. A common theme among modern bounce house manufacturers is the concept of looking forward. Imagining what the future might bring helps current designers and manufacturers of inflatable devices to create innovative, original structures that can appeal to a mass audience today.

The Bounce Bot Inflatable Bobble Bouncer, commonly called the Bounce Bot for short, is a perfect fit for all bouncers who are fascinated by science fiction and space adventure. While the Bounce Bot is fun to bounce in, with enough room for you and your friends to safely bounce without collision, what makes it truly special lies on the outside of the structure. The Bounce Bot’s bright white walls shine under the sun, making it visible from very far away. Meanwhile, the Bot towers over its set-up site and the yard it’s located in, mainly due to the robot head and arms located at the top of the structure. As users of the bouncer star to jump around, the robot head on the ceiling of the house begins to shake from side to side. Each jump triggers a new vibration, and provides entertainment for those inside and outside supervising the activities. In addition, the two arms on the side of the structure wave up and down in sync with the head and the rest of the bouncing.

Another glimpse into the future comes by way of the Quantum Leap Inflatable Bounce House, which uses its space theme and inflatable nature to simulate walking on the moon and leaping through space better than any other bounce house on the market. Users begin their mission by climb through the zipper-opening in the front wall of the fully inflated house. What immediately makes the Quantum Leap unique is its outside design. The front wall shows off a space-walking design of astronauts on the moon, leaping their way through space, with a rocket ship and other planets and stars in the background. Few other inflatable structures have this detailed, mural-like design at the entrance and on the walls of the device. Two towering rockets act at the front two pillars of the house, readying a user’s mind for the adventure that awaits inside. Once inside, users of the bounce house can pretending they’re on the moon or some other distant planet. An elongated bouncing area allows for longer jumps, more accurately simulating the feel of soaring through space, exploring beyond Earth, searching for what life lies beyond all those stars. Outer space is a wonderful theme for bounce houses, because a bounce house can easily simulate the low gravity found on the moon.

Either of these bounce houses can especially appeal to bouncing users with dreams of the solar system and space travel, in addition to more than satisfying anyone looking for an exciting adventure bouncing and leaping throughout the day. Anything involving space and its exploration will always find a great deal of support and interest from the public, and this includes bounce houses, both today and tomorrow.