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Turkey Bowling

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November 2, 2015 by Sydney 2 Comments

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Create a fun game to play while waiting for the turkey to get done for free.

Turkey Bowling: A Fun and Free Thanksgiving Activitiy |Tastefully Frugal

I don’t know if I ever mentioned it here before but I love bowling. Like used to bowl in a youth bowling tour and partially paid my way through college love bowling. It runs in my family actually; my grandpa was a professional bowler and my dad still bowls two days a week. We’ve taken my boys bowling a few times but they just don’t have the attention for it. Maybe it’s all flashing lights and music of the arcade games that distracts them; who knows. But what I do know my boys love doing is knocking things over.

Turkey Bowling: A Fun and Free Thanksgiving Activitiy |Tastefully Frugal

That’s where the idea for turkey bowling came from. Now that they are older they get super excited for holidays; birthdays, Halloween, Christmas. Any time there is something to celebrate they wake up in the morning so excited only to be let down when they have to wait all day to celebrate. But not this holiday, this time I came prepared.

Turkey Bowling: A Fun and Free Thanksgiving Activitiy |Tastefully Frugal

Turkey bowling combines all of our favorite things. My love of bowling, their love of knocking things over and everyone’s love of turkey. Plus, and this was my favorite part, it cost me absolutely nothing to make. I used empty green bean and peas cans, craft paint and leftover eyes from my Glow In The Dark Spider Pillow. 

Turkey Bowling: A Fun and Free Thanksgiving Activitiy |Tastefully Frugal

You’ll need 10 cans (or pins). Paint 3 cans brown, 3 red, 2 orange and 2 yellow. You will need to do at least two coats of paint on the jars and possible three on the yellow cans.

Turkey Bowling: A Fun and Free Thanksgiving Activitiy |Tastefully Frugal

On one of the brown cans, after it is dry, use yellow paint to paint a beak and red to paint the wattle. Attach two googly eyes above the beak and you’re done. Now comes the fun part; set the pins up and knock ’em down! My boys have had so much fun “bowling” I may have to make another set so they can play at the same time.

Turkey Bowling: A Fun and Free Thanksgiving Activitiy |Tastefully Frugal

What plans do you have to keep your family entertained on Thanksgiving Day?

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Want to see what some of my friends turned “junk” into this month? Check out the rest of the November Junk Revision Challenge projects below:

 

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If you’re looking for the recipe for the Pumpkin Snickerdoodle cookies I shared on The PLACE you can find it here.

Filed Under: Crafts Tagged With: Family Fun, Free, Junk Revision, Thanksgiving, Turkey Bowling

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  1. kathleen says

    November 3, 2015 at 11:57 pm

    How adorable! If my kids were still little I would definitely do this! I’m sure they love it! xoKathleen

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  2. Kim from Hunt & Host says

    November 4, 2015 at 9:00 am

    Stop it! This is so fantastically cute I can’t stand it! We are so doing this. GREAT idea!

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