I have been looking for more fun ways to practice some numeral recognition with W and I think this mini-skittle game is something he will really enjoy.
It is a great way of up-cycling some old yoghurt drink pots too.
First I painted the empty pots with a 50:50 mixture of paint and Mod Podge glue.
When dry I attached a polystyrene ball to the top with craft glue.
Then I simply added some googley eyes…
…drew on faces and finally painted each with a number from 1 to 6.
Now we are ready to roll! We will probably use a small bouncy-ball as our bowling ball.
I am hoping for W, aged 2.5, that this will be a great way to practice number recognition and see if he can tell me the numbers on the skittles that he manages to knock down.
For younger children this would make a good way to practice colour recognition.
This could also be easily adapted for older children too where you could practice some simple addition, adding up the numbers of those that you manage to knock down.
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What a great idea, I love the different faces on the skittles!
Thanks Jennifer! I am not much of an artist I am afraid LOL 🙂
Pinned lovely xxx
Thank you 🙂
Oooh, I love the versatility of this project. There are so many different directions you could take it. You could (maybe) even attach some velcro to the front of each bottle and make different cards to work on different skills. All in all, a win. I am pinning this for reference later on. I’m visiting from the pin it party and my pinterest id is http://pinterest.com/slashbrook/ 🙂
Oooh I hadn’t thought about attaching velcro cards. Great idea! You could do shapes and letters as well.
cute! I must get around to making these someday.
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