Top-down view of a fenced backyard lawn with a bounce house and its slide along one side, a tree reaching over the corner

Yard Fit

Will it fit your yard?

By Chip H. · Updated · 45 units measured

A 12 by 9 foot bounce house, the most common size on our list, needs about 26 by 23 feet of open, flat ground once you add the 2 meters (6.6 feet) that the Little Tikes, Action Air and Bounceland manuals ask for on every side.

The size on the box is the smaller number. Sportspower asks for 6 feet and HeroKiddo for 7, so Yard Fit uses each maker's own figure: type in the open lawn you have, and it sorts all 45 bounce houses and water slides on GoJumps into the ones that fit and the ones that don't, clear space included.

So measure the lawn you can actually use. Stop at the fence, the flower bed and the spot where the ground starts to tip toward the patio, then enter the two sides below. For a toddler unit that lives indoors, measure the open floor between the furniture instead.

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Your lawn, to scale.

A 12 by 9 foot bounce house inside its clear zone Top-down plan: the unit sits in the middle of a dashed zone 6.6 feet wider on every side, about 26 by 23 feet overall. 26 ft 23 ft 6.6 ft Clear zone 12 × 9 ft the unit
To scale: the most common size on our list, 12 × 9 ft, inside its clear zone. Enter your lawn and this becomes your yard.

Every unit, smallest first

  1. QPAU 3-in-1 Play Yard

    3.6 × 3.6 ft · no clearance published

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  2. WEEINJOY Bounce House and Ball Pit

    3.8 ft round · no clearance published

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  3. QRZAR 3-in-1 Play Yard

    4.25 ft round · no clearance published

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  4. UOYESS 4-in-1 Play Yard

    4.5 × 4.5 ft · no clearance published

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  5. Intex Jump-O-Lene with Quick-Fill Pump

    5.7 × 5.7 ft · needs 19 × 19 ft

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  6. Fisher-Price Bouncetastic

    5.75 × 5.7 ft · needs 19 × 19 ft

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  7. Intex Jump-O-Lene Castle

    5.75 × 5.75 ft · needs 19 × 19 ft

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  8. PicassoTiles KC106 Junior Bouncer

    8 × 7 ft · needs 22 × 21 ft

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  9. Bounceland Daydreamer Cotton Candy

    8.9 × 7.2 ft · needs 23 × 21 ft

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  10. Little Tikes Jr. Jump 'n Slide

    10.5 × 7 ft · needs 24 × 21 ft

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  11. H2OGO! Slidetastic Bounce House

    9 × 8.4 ft · needs 23 × 22 ft

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  12. Step4Fun Castle Bouncer

    9.3 × 8.2 ft · needs 23 × 22 ft

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  13. Culaluva 7-in-1 Bounce House

    9.35 × 8.2 ft · needs 23 × 22 ft

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  14. Outsunny 6-in-1 Water Slide Castle

    10.8 × 8 ft · needs 25 × 22 ft

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  15. Blast Zone Magic Castle

    11 × 8.5 ft · needs 25 × 22 ft

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  16. Sportspower My 1st Jump N Play

    12.5 × 9.5 ft · needs 25 × 22 ft

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  17. HuaKastro Water Slide Bounce House

    10.5 × 9.2 ft · needs 24 × 23 ft

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  18. Hongcoral Bounce Castle with Long Slide

    12.7 × 8.3 ft · needs 26 × 22 ft

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  19. NBSPORT Candy Water Slide Combo

    10.8 × 9.1 ft · needs 25 × 23 ft

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  20. Bounceland Jump and Splash Adventure

    11.5 × 9 ft · needs 25 × 23 ft

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  21. Action Air Bounce House with Slide

    12 × 9 ft · needs 26 × 23 ft

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  22. Little Tikes Jump 'n Slide

    12 × 9 ft · needs 26 × 23 ft

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  23. YARD Bounce House with Slide

    12 × 9 ft · needs 26 × 23 ft

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  24. BANZAI Big Blast Water Park

    14.4 × 10.6 ft · needs 28 × 24 ft

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  25. Sunny & Fun Ultra Climber

    13.1 × 11.2 ft · needs 27 × 25 ft

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  26. Little Tikes Rocky Mountain River Race

    12 × 12 ft · needs 26 × 26 ft

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  27. HuaKastro 20.5 ft Obstacle Course

    20.5 × 6.3 ft · needs 34 × 20 ft

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  28. Action Air Shark Water Slide

    15 × 10.5 ft · needs 29 × 24 ft

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  29. Bounceland Royal Palace

    13 × 12 ft · needs 27 × 26 ft

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  30. Pogo Building Block Commercial Bounce House

    13 × 12 ft · needs 27 × 26 ft

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  31. COCOFISH Shark Dual Slide

    13.1 × 12.5 ft · needs 27 × 26 ft

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  32. Whubefy Inflatable Obstacle Course

    18 × 8.2 ft · needs 32 × 22 ft

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  33. AirMyFun 11-in-1 Race Car

    18.4 × 8.7 ft · needs 32 × 22 ft

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  34. Cloud 9 Commercial Castle

    13 × 13 ft · needs 27 × 27 ft

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  35. Blast Zone Big Ol Bouncer

    15 × 12 ft · needs 29 × 26 ft

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  36. Blast Zone Magic Castle Ultra12

    15 × 12 ft · needs 29 × 26 ft

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  37. Island Hopper Fort All Sport

    15 × 12 ft · needs 29 × 26 ft

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  38. Causeair Dolphin Water Slide Bounce House

    14.2 × 13.8 ft · needs 28 × 27 ft

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  39. Easyair Large Bounce House

    14.8 × 14.5 ft · needs 28 × 28 ft

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  40. YARD Rainbow Racer Obstacle Course

    21.3 × 9.2 ft · needs 35 × 23 ft

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  41. Sunny & Fun Deluxe Water Park

    17 × 12.4 ft · needs 31 × 26 ft

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  42. Bounceland Party Castle

    16 × 13 ft · needs 30 × 27 ft

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  43. HeroKiddo Jelly Bean Dual-Lane Combo

    17 × 14 ft · needs 31 × 28 ft

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  44. WELLFUNTIME Double Slides Water Park

    17.7 × 15.4 ft · needs 31 × 29 ft

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  45. HeroKiddo Jelly Bean Combo with Pool

    26 × 14 ft · needs 40 × 28 ft

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Bounce house sizes, by the lawn they need.

Every unit on GoJumps, grouped by the long side of its clear zone. Footprints are the unit alone; the first column is what it claims once it's staked out.

Lawn needed, long side What you'll find Footprints On our list For example
19 ft or less Pump-up play yards, which publish no clearance, plus the smallest bouncers 3.6 to 5.75 ft 7 QPAU 3-in-1 Play Yard, Intex Jump-O-Lene Castle, Fisher-Price Bouncetastic
20 to 25 ft Compact bouncers, small combos with a slide and the smallest water slides 8 to 12.5 ft 12 PicassoTiles KC106 Junior Bouncer, Little Tikes Jr. Jump 'n Slide, Bounceland Jump and Splash Adventure
26 to 27 ft The 12 by 9 classics, mid-size castles and the first water slides with a pool 12 to 13.1 ft 10 Little Tikes Jump 'n Slide, Bounceland Royal Palace, Little Tikes Rocky Mountain River Race
28 to 31 ft Big residential castles, dual-lane combos and full water parks 14.2 to 17.7 ft 11 Bounceland Party Castle, HeroKiddo Jelly Bean Dual-Lane Combo, WELLFUNTIME Double Slides Water Park
32 ft and up Obstacle courses, plus the largest commercial combo 18 to 26 ft 5 HuaKastro 20.5 ft Obstacle Course, YARD Rainbow Racer Obstacle Course, HeroKiddo Jelly Bean Combo with Pool

Sizes, answered.

How big is a standard bounce house?

On our list, 12 by 9 feet. The Little Tikes Jump 'n Slide, the Action Air and the YARD castle all come in at that size: a bounce floor with a slide out the front. Small backyard bouncers start around 8 by 7 feet, and the residential castles built for bigger kids run from 15 by 12 to 16 by 13.

How much room does it need around it?

Two meters, or 6.6 feet, on every side is the figure we see most, from Little Tikes, Action Air and Bounceland. Sportspower asks for 6 feet and HeroKiddo for 7. Little Tikes wants the same 6.6 feet overhead, and Sportspower recommends 24 feet of open space above even its 6.8 foot unit, so look for branches and wires before you reach for the tape measure.

Will a 13 by 13 or a 15 by 15 fit?

Add 13.2 feet to each measurement and round up. A 13 by 13 castle, like the commercial Cloud 9 on our big kids page, needs 27 by 27 feet of lawn; a 15 by 15 needs 29 by 29. Rental companies may work to clearance rules of their own, so ask yours what it needs before you clear the space.

What if my yard is narrow, or small?

Narrow yards suit the obstacle courses. The HuaKastro runs 20.5 feet long but only 6.3 wide, so it needs a strip about 34 by 20 feet. In the smallest spaces, the Intex Jump-O-Lene and the Fisher-Price Bouncetastic need about 19 feet square, and the pump-up play yards on our toddler page publish no clearance at all, so leave room to walk all the way around them.

A backyard bounce house with an attached slide Bounce houses with slides Compact combos to double lanes, each with the lawn it needs. An inflatable water slide with a splash pool Water slides Splash pools, sprayers and what the grass looks like afterward. A small, low-walled toddler bouncer Toddler and indoor Units small enough for a playroom and gentle enough for age 2. A large combo bounce house built for older kids Big kids Higher limits and sturdier seams once they pass age 8.

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