Pumpkin bowling was used with great success during my final lesson before Thanksgiving. We used it to choose variations on “For Health and Strength,” but it could be used for anything.
What You Need:
- A mini pumpkin
- Flashcards with whatever you want to drill
- These could be official flashcards with notes on the staff on them, or they could be scraps of paper that say phrase 1, phrase 2, phrase 3, etc., or practically anything else.
- Something to use as bowling pins
- I don’t have actual bowling pins, but I have used stacks of plastic bowls, larger pumpkins, paper towel rolls, anything you have several of and will not break.
Setup:
- Place a flashcard under each of your makeshift bowling pins.
How to Play:
- The student rolls (not throws), the mini pumpkin toward the bowling pins. Whichever one they hit, do the flashcard under it. (If it’s something heavy like a large pumpkin, it won’t actually fall over, but it’s okay just to bump it.)
- Replace the bowling pin with a new flashcard.
- Repeat.
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