Bottle Bowling

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If your kids love ten pin bowling, then here is an inexpensive alternative that you can play at home or in the park. Using recycled bottles, you can create your own skittles, and set up your own bowling court.

Ages: 4-11

Indoor or Outdoor: Outdoor

Equipment/Resources:

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Cost:Inexpensive

Instructions:

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1) Fill your bottles with water or rice.

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2) Line up the bottles at the end of your garden/ playing area, in a triangular pattern.

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3) Decide on the distance you are going to stand away from the bottles, then aim, and roll your ball towards the bottles.

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4) Take it in turns, and the person who knocks down the most bottles wins.

Aim:Knock down the bottles with the tennis ball

Time: Endless/As long as you want

Players: Any

Why?: Uses recycled items and gets you outside

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Tips & Ideas:





a) Adjusting levels of water/rice
b) Rearranging the pattern of the bottles
c) Changing the numbers of the bottles


a) Whoever knocks down the most bottles in a turn wins
b) accumulate points over a set number of rounds
c) Knock down all the bottles for bonus points

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