Arts, crafts…and bowling?
June 3, 2009 by Shannon
What a great way to spend a rainy spring afternoon. Construct a colorful set of bowling pins!
I’ve been hoarding empty toilet paper rolls for a while now, with the feeling I’d be inspired to come up with some crafty purpose for them. And I did! Ta da!
I gathered up my set of 10 tubes, and set Kellan up at his high chair with a sponge brush and washable paints. I gave him one tube and color at a time, so we’d have a nice multicolored set of pins. After painting and letting them dry (which really only took about a half hour or so) I put a numbered sticker on each one, just to add a little educational value to his new, do-it-yourself playset. Then I rounded up a wiffle ball to double as a bowling ball.
We use a nice long hallway with tile floor as our bowling alley, which provides an echoey crashing sound when the “pins” fall. But a carpeted alley would work just fine too.
Now, if I could just figure out a crafty way to construct one of those automatic pin setting machines…
Comments (9)
Reuse, reduce, recycle and recraft! Way to go, girlfriend!
Great idea! I’m currently gathering summer entertainment ideas like a mad woman. Hadley’s out of school in two days and I have got to have an arsenal of stop the kids from fighting ideas or I’m dead.
Wow! What a great idea! Great haircut too!
That is a great idea! Thanks for being so creative. I better start collecting my pins.
Can I just say thank goodness for washable art supplies! I love the bowling set idea, toilet paper rolls also make great telescopes and binoculars for nature hikes.
WOW! I never would have thought of that! I bet he loved it too!
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