Halloween Bowling – pinterest success!

Tis the season for Halloween Bowling! I’m a cub master and a preschool teacher & put together these bowling sets for both groups to make this past week (at pack meeting and at a preschool Halloween party). They were a huge success, and so stinkin’ cute!!

This project was a pinterest find, and I modified it a bit since I was making so many (12 sets) and had different ages (3 –10 yrs). The original version used 4 x 9” blocks, construction paper, googly eyes, and a bouncy ball. I made 1.5 x 6” blocks with vinyl stickers, and used a golf ball!

What you need to make my modified version:

• 6 – 1.5” x 6” x 1” blocks
• spray paint - (My favorite is Rust-oleum brand, use these colors - white, key lime, seaside, black, grape, and real orange)
• vinyl [and Silhouette machine] - (in these colors - black, white, and a little bit of yellow)
• vinyl sticker template (I created, this is for a Silhouette SD, but I think it will convert to other Silhouette versions)
• a golf ball (I got mine at Wal-mart, or find them here)
• red & black sharpies

Paint each board a different color, and let them dry. While those are drying, cut the vinyl stickers. I TOTALLY recommend a Silhouette machine, it makes projects like this so SO simple. All you have to do is open the template, load the vinyl & cut!

Once the boards are dry, and the vinyl is cut, it’s just a matter of applying the stickers. I showed the 3 year olds what it was suppose to look like (on the template), then they stuck them on how they wanted it to look. For the cub scouts, I just handed it to them and said, “put them together!”  The eyeball golf balls were simple too – use the sharpies to color in a black circle, then draw red squiggly lines all over it!

Then set it up and play!!

 

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!

Life-size board game

My boys are still too little to really understand board games, but this is a great way to introduce the concept to them. If you have older kids that actually know how to play board games, this will just be a fun change for them, to play it life-size!!

I used sidewalk chalk and drew squares, big enough for them to stand in, and drew them one after the other all over the driveway and down the sidewalk. I did a few turns and bends in the path just to add some excitement to the “board” game.

[our driveway is obviously not the cleanest!]

Again, my boys are really little still so I didn’t add anything fun to the squares. But you could easily add extra things in them, like -

• move 2 squares back
• jump 1 square forward
• run to the nearest corner square
• etc!

I also made a big die for the game, out of a 3 x 3 board we had. Personally I really like using lumber and wood whenever I get the chance, but you could easily use a square cardboard box, a big foam cube, plastic cube, or even just a regular die.

Then I let my oldest roll the die and he counted and jumped that many squares ahead of him on the ‘board’ game. My youngest didn’t have a clue what was going on, except lots of jumping, so it was just little G and I playing the game.

He loved rolling the die and counting out the squares, since he is a master at counting now!

 

Needless to say it was a pretty fun game. If it was a little warmer outside (not in the 40’s) we would have stayed out longer and had a great time playing it over and over and over again. Instead we only played it twice before we froze!!

{What you need}
-sidewalk chalk
-a sidewalk &/or driveway
-big cube of some sort (wood, cardboard, foam, plastic, or just a regular die)