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How to Make Homemade Bowling Pins

Bowling is an enjoyable recreation for all ages to play from toddlers to adults. Making homemade bowling pins enables you and your family to spend quality time together. Playing the game is an effective way to exercise together and it requires little space. Use inexpensive supplies to form the bowling pins quickly. This is one way to engage in physical activity while cooped up indoors on a rainy day.

Things You'll Need

Modeling clay or several rocks
Large plastic disposable cups
Duct tape
Tennis ball or other small ball
Empty plastic water or soda bottles (optional)
Sand or rocks (optional)

Instructions

- 1
  Scoop out a round piece of the modeling clay -- about 1 inch in diameter.
- 2
  Press the modeling clay into the bottom of one of the drinking cups. This acts as a weight for the bowling pins. Substitute a few rocks if you don't have modeling clay.
- 3
  Turn another plastic cup upside down on top of the cup with the clay inside it. Both cup openings should touch each other.
- 4
  Wrap a piece of duct tape around the rims of the two cups to hold them together. Overlap the tape slightly to seal the cups. Repeat the method until you have ten bowling pins for the game.
- 5
  Set the bowling pins up on one side of the room in a triangle shape. The row nearest the wall should have four bowling pins, then a row of three, a row of two and finally the head pin. Use a tennis ball or other similar size ball as the bowling ball.

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