Games for Kids: Bowling Boxes

Help your child develop her all-important bowling arm with an easy game of Bowling Boxes.

Materials:

• 6 to 8 empty cereal boxes
• Tape
• Uncarpeted floor
• Medium sized rubber ball

Learning Skills:

• Cause and effect
• Cognitive/thinking skills
• Fine and gross motor development
• Self-awareness
• Spatial relationships

What to Do:

1. Collect several boxes and seal the tops with tape.
   
   
2. Set the boxes up in a triangle, like bowling pins, at one end of an uncarpeted room.
   
   
3. Have your child stand at the opposite end and give her the ball.
   
   
4. Have her roll the ball toward the cereal boxes and try to knock them down.
   
   
5. Roll the ball back to her and have her keep trying until all the boxes have been knocked down.
   
   
6. Set the boxes up again and play until she becomes tired of the game.

Variation:
Have your child stand farther back each time she starts a new game. Or, set the boxes up like standing dominoes so that when she hits the first one, the others tumble down.

Caution:
Make sure she's close enough to the boxes the first time so she doesn't become frustrated, and move all breakable items out of the way.


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