Indoor Bowling

 Age Range: 6-11

Equipment: 6 bottles, 1 ball

Indoor Bowling

In this post, you will find a step by step guide on how to make and play your own indoor bowling game

 

To play this game:

 

You first will need to arrange your bottles into a pyramid similar to the image below

 

 

To do this, place three bottles first each in a line with a 1 inch bag in between each of them

 

Next, place another 2 bottles in front of the current 3

 

Finally, place 1 more bottle ahead of the 2 bottles you have just placed

 

With your bottles all placed, all you need to do now is take a couple of steps back, and roll your ball so that it can knock down as many bottles as possible

 

To progress this game:

• You could use a smaller ball
• Try using bigger plastic bottles
• Play this game outside 
• Go more steps back from the target to test your rolling ability
  

Thanks guys and hope you enjoyed the blog post today. Be sure to leave a comment on how you found playing this game and be sure to check out our some of my other blog posts I have posted. 😊

Crocodile Palm Art

 Age Range: 4-11

Equipment needed: A4 sheet paper, black, red and green felt tip pen

Crocodile Palm Art

Have you ever wanted to learn how to draw a crocodile? Well you can do this, simply by using the palm of your hand. ✋🐊

 

To draw your crocodile:

 

Place your left hand on a sheet of paper with your thumb facing out. Have your index finger and middle finger facing towards the top right corner of your paper similar to the image below. Your remaining fingers will be placed into your hand.

 

Draw round your hand

 

Draw round to join the face of your crocodile together

 

Add two nostrils in your middle finger for which you've drawn and two eyebrows similar to the image below.

 

For your eyes, draw two circles each under your eyebrows. Next, draw another two circles inside each of the current eyes with one being smaller and one even more smaller in your eyes.

 

Colour the middle of your eyes with a black pen 

(Ensure there is a small white circle in your eyes)

 Draw a small line heading downwards for the bridge of your nose and add 3 small triangles on the outside of your finger for the teeth similar to the image below

Draw the mouth by adding 3 triangles for the teeth where you have drawn your thumb. Next, draw a line over each of the teeth and then draw a small line to the left of your mouth as well.

 

Colour the mouth of your crocodile with a red pen

 

Colour your crocodile with a green pen

 

You have made your own crocodile palm art

Watch the Crocodile Palm Art video:

 

Thank you and hope you enjoyed the blog post. Please leave in the comments how you found drawing your own crocodile as well as any feedback you may have. Please also leave in the comments any animals you'd like me to draw for you guys and be sure to check out some of my other blog posts on Danny's Blog.😊🐊

Domino Rally

 Age Range: 3-11   

Equipment needed: Dominoes and Household items

 

Domino Rally

On this post, I will be showing how to create your own domino rally. A domino rally is a chain reaction which can be caused by a set of tumbling dominoes. 

This is great for indoor and outdoor play and can also help with construction play, teamwork and problem solving. 

 

How to create your domino rally                                                                                       Place your dominoes one behind the other with a 3cm gap in between each of them. It's important you have a 3cm gap in between them so that there is enough space and that the dominoes will fall onto the corresponding domino and thus keeping the rally going.

 

Domino Rally 1

For the first domino rally, just like the image below, you could set up a simple rally where the dominoes are in a straight line one behind the other and have them fall onto each other. You could even add a target at the end of this rally for example a ball aiming to land into a cup from the result of the rally.

Domino Rally 2

To progress the domino rally, you could change the pattern of the rally by creating a curved domino rally where the dominoes will curve onto one another like the image below.

Household Domino Rally

To progress the domino rally and make the activity more interesting, you could even create your own rally by using household items. When using household items, items used must topple over and they can't be too big. It's entirely up to you what items you use and the best part is..... you made it yourself.

 Watch the video to see how to play domino rally:

 Thank you and hope you enjoyed the blog post. Please leave in the comments how you found creating your own domino rallies and be sure to check out some of my other blog posts on Danny's Blog.😊

Crab Palm Art

 Age Range: 4-11

Equipment needed: A4 sheet paper, black and red felt tip pen

Crab Palm Art
 

Have you ever wanted to learn how to draw a crab? Well you can do this, simply by using the palm of your hand. ✋🦀

 

To draw your crab: 

 

 Start by drawing your 4 fingers from your left hand on a sheet of A4 paper with your paper in portrait view

 

Turn your paper round so that your fingers are facing the opposite way

 

Draw your 4 fingers again of your left hand on top of your original finger drawing

 

Turn your paper round to landscape view

 

Draw two crescent moon shapes on top of your fingers

 

Draw two round antennas similar to the image below on your crab

 

In your antennas, draw one circle in each of them and colour in the middle section of your circles with a black pen

 

Draw two eyebrows on top of your eyes and colour in with a black pen

 

For the mouth, draw a straight line and then draw a mouth underneath it

 

Colour around your eyes, the antennas and the crescent moon shapes in red pen

 

Colour in the rest of the crab with a red pen except for the mouth to make your own crab palm art

  

Watch the Crab Palm Art video:

 

Thank you and hope you enjoyed the blog post. Please leave in the comments how you found drawing your own horse as well as any feedback you may have. Please also leave in the comments any animals you'd like me to draw for you guys and be sure to check out some of my other blog posts on Danny's Blog.😊🦀