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- Teams: 4 Teams
- Time: 5 - 10 mins
- Cost: $0 - 5
- Mess: Quick pack up
- Location: Anywhere
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Submitted by: Shorty on 24-Oct-2007
Game categories: Action games, Mini olympic games, Prize games
Materials: giant exercise ball, skittles / bowling pins
This is a simple game, but can be great fun for a mini-olympics style event.
Basically, set up a giant size bowling alley in a large area - it could be anywhere! We use our carpark and draw lines using chalk to mark out the allery.
Each player from the team gets chance to bowl the ball down the alley and knock over as many pins as possible.
To add in some extra challenge-ness to the game, players can line up down the sides of the alley and are allowed to kick or push the ball if it comes near them. However, it might be a good idea to limit the number of times they can do this (ie 1 or 2) and make sure they can only do it in one direction (ie forwards).
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7 people have commented on Giant Bowling
Joyce Hedington
January 20, 2009 at 12:15 pm
We once used 1.25l soft drink bottles and a frozen chicken as the ball. i thought it was gross but the youth loved it. haha
Mia
February 26, 2009 at 7:09 pm
We used the frozen chicken too. Ergh!
Christie
March 26, 2009 at 12:14 am
The frozen chicken is definately the way to go. The cheap plastic pins you can get in toy stores work well.
funky fedaykin
April 24, 2009 at 12:35 am
At camp, we used to use an earth ball and roll it down a big hill towards people, who were the pins. :)
Sally
July 29, 2009 at 9:38 am
We do a large one like this but we us the kids as the bowling ball. We put them on an office chair (you know the ones with wheels) and then we push them down the ally. It is awesome fun. We do make them wear protective gear just in case, though nothing has ever happened.
mk
April 14, 2010 at 9:13 pm
We also had a good time using the kids as the pins. One team bowls while the other stands in as pins. If they are hit they can 'fall' onto the ground in a way that protects their team members still standing, provided they want to risk getting hit by the ball.
Jim
September 3, 2010 at 10:09 am
Hey this idea got my brain going!! Why not use an earthball and really make a giant bowling game? What would you use for pins, though?