How to Make a Recycled Water Bottle Bowling Game

Recycle emptied water bottles by making a simple bowling game out of them.

The recycled water bottle bowling game is simple to make and fun to play. This bowling game can be used indoors or outdoors on any hard surface from sidewalks, to playgrounds, classrooms or kitchens. The recycled water bottle bowling game is also fun for kids parties. You can paint and number them to help children learn their numbers. This is a great way to recycle some of those emptied individual plastic water bottles.

Things You'll Need

• 10 empty single-size plastic water bottle
• Softball or baseball
• Dry beans (or gravel)
• Acrylic paint (white and any other bright contrasting color)
• Sponge/foam paint brush

Instructions

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.

Tips & Warnings

• You can opt not to paint them at all if you want to make the craft simpler. You can make this a color lesson by not painting them, then filling each bottle with a different colored item. You can also used colored beads to fill them.