you could make your own parachute. all you need is a sturdy piece of fabric and some nylon rope. a nylon fabric would be ideal, but i'm sure a nicely woven piece of cotton fabric would work well too. the in only tricky part would be attaching the rope to the fabric. if you made a hole in the edges of the fabric, it may rip. you could use a sewing machine to to sew the fabric to the rope. that may sounds girlly but it would work if you did it right.