How to Make a Recycled Water Bottle Bowling Game
- 1). Make sure all the water bottles are completely clean and dry on the inside and the outside. Remove the labels, and clean off any residue left under the labels.
- 2). Fill each of the 10 bottles 1/4 to 1/2 full with your chosen filling. You can uses dry beans, dry rice, gravel, beads or whatever else you can find. It has to weigh down the bottles to keep them steady and keep them standing like regular bowling pins. Put the tops on securely.
- 3). Paint a large circle of white on the front of each bottle. Let it dry completely. After they dry, paint a number on each bottle in the contrasting color on top of the dried white circle of paint. Number them from 1 to 10.
- 4). Set them up on a sidewalk or on any non-carpeted surface. Have fun trying to bowl them over with a softball or baseball rolled along the ground like real bowling. Have younger kids learn to set them up by making a counting game out of it.
- 5). Make the game more challenging by filling the bottles with different items and different amounts so that the bowling pins don’t all weigh the same amount.