Stairs

[azurelunatic]

I need to write up some of the more entertaining things that swallowtayle and I did with the stairs, especially including "bumping down the stairs".

Note that this is generally only possible with wooden stairs without traction thingies, and is a good way to get rugburn on carpeted stairs.

When FatherSir tried it, the house shook.

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[dawn-again.livejournal.com]

*with a glint in her eye*

Take a spare piece of masonite.
Insert into Mickey Mouse sleeping bag.
Install three children, one behind the next in the bag, on top of the masonite.

Staircase bobsledding...

[azurelunatic]

We sat on our stuffed fish.

(I had a plush halibut. swallowtayle had a salmon.)

[boojum.livejournal.com]

Ultimately the carpet on the stairs suffers more than the kids, especially if the kids are savvy enough to wear long pants or pillow cases or what-have-you. All the fuzz on the corners of the stairs wears away.

My parents went through quite a few years without unbroken laundry baskets. The low wide ones were perfect for tobogganning down the stairs and playing at boats with. The tall narrow ones were fun to get in, but prone to tipping or not accommodating all of the width of a sitting child. Turtles and forts were also fun games.

[azurelunatic]

swallowtayle and I would wear laundry baskets on our heads, and declare, "I'm wearing my new hat to town!" and giggle.

We used our sleeping bags and our stuffed fish for stair-sliding, and sent the fish down by themselves, as often as not. My velveteen halibut Wefrey would go bumping down the stairs, and swallowtayle's salmon Fingrab would follow...