How to Play Miniature Golf at Home

Miniature golf can be a fun way to spend time on a date, with your spouse, or with your kids. However, you don't need to go to a fancy course. Stay home and make your own miniature golf course as a family, and learn that making the course is just as much fun as playing it.

Things You'll Need

• Cups
• Shovel
• Lawnmower
• Boards
• Kid pool

Instructions

1. Split up and have each member of your family scour the house and grab anything they can to make a golf hole. Everyone is in charge of getting 2 or 3 holes.

2. Grab boards (long and short), chairs, cups, your little sister's swimming pool, old tires, your bike--whatever you want.

3. Go into the backyard or in the house and start building the holes. If you don't have a lot of space, you can go to a park or even build a couple holes at a time--they don't have to be complicated.

4. Blow up the kiddie pool and fill it with water. Have a ramp, or long board going up one side and a large cup for the hole in the middle of the pool or on the other side.

5. Turn your bike over and have a ramp going up towards it and one on the other side leading to the hole. Spin the wheel for added difficulty in getting it through.

6. Use chairs or other household appliances that the golfer has to hit under, through, from or over. Think creative crouquet.

7. Use a sand box as a trap with a ramp going halfway over it.

8. Hit the ball down the stairs and have multiple sized cups at the bottom. The small ones are worth more points.

9. Set a course that you have to go around. For instance, for hole 3, you have to hit it around a tree, then under a chair and over a ramp before you try for the hole.

10. Hit it down the slide on your swingset or through the swings or a tire swing as it moves back and forth. Use a ramp or try to hit it in the air with the help of a tee.

Tips & Warnings

• Be creative. The more fun you have building it, the more fun you will have playing it and re-inventing new holes.

• Be careful when swinging a club that no one is around you. Use tennis balls if necessary, especially with little kids.