How to Make a Halloween Bowling Set
Pumpkins have a lot of uses during the autumn season. From a nice table decoration, delicious pie, or even a carved Jack O’Lantern to celebrate Halloween, pumpkins are much more than just an orange vegetable. For sports fans, those pumpkins can get put to use in creating a custom Halloween bowling set. This set is easy to make and could become a Halloween tradition in your home. Does this Spark an idea?
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Things You'll Need
- 12 Plastic 2-Liter Bottles
- Sand
- Pumpkins
- Glow in the Dark Paint
- Glitter Glue
- Permanent Markers
- Super Glue
- Knife
Instructions
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Clean out twelve empty 2-liter plastic bottles. Typically, bowing games require ten pins, but the two extra pins are used just in case any of them break.
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Fill each one of the bottles halfway with sand. This will help add weight to the bottles so that they stand up easy and are more pin-like.
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Apply a little bit of super glue to the outer edge of the cap and screw it on so that it stays tight.
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Tear the labels off of all of the bottles and throw them away. Paint the bottles with glow in the dark paint using Halloween colors like red and orange.
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Use permanent markers to add designs on the pins like ghosts, witches, vampires, and other Halloween creatures. Instead of drawing the creatures on, you could also add some stickers to the bottles.
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Apply glitter glue to all of the bottles to give them a shiny and fun appearance.
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Gather 4 to 5 small pumpkins. These pumpkins should be about the size of a softball. Cut off the stems to the pumpkins. Apply glow paint to the pumpkins as well.
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Set up the pins in a bright light to charge the glow paint. Set them up in the typical ten pin bowling pattern. Shut off the lights and watch the pins glow.
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Use small lamps to disco lights to provide a little bit of light onto the bowling lane.
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Take turns using the pumpkin as a bowling ball to try and knock down the pins. Play ten frames and keep score using a pen and paper.
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Resources
- Photo Credit http://www.norcalblogs.com/bumpkins/pumpkin1.jpg
