Our local bowling alley has a great special running in the summer on Tuesday mornings – all you can bowl for $4 per person – so we decided to take advantage of that this morning and have some fun. Of course, one of the dolls decided to come along and it made great inspiration for today’s doll play activity. There is a printable so you can make your own bowling pins and score cards for the dolls.
Here is Hadley trying to decide how she is going to pick up that bowling ball!
Using the printable below, I cut out the 10 bowling pins, folded over their tabs and secured the tabs to the floor with a piece of clear tape. By taping down the tabs, Chrissa can roll the bowling ball and pins will fall down but not really move. Chrissa is wearing the Our Generation Bowling Outfit and I made her bowling ball by swirling together two colors of Model Magic clay and putting them inside an empty Squinkies ball.
This is a closer look at Chrissa’s outfit and bowling ball I made her. I was able to get the ball to stay in her hand by using a clear hair elastic.
Download the Bowling activity sheet as a PDF file.
You will need to print out two sheets in order to have enough bowling pins for your dolls to play a game. By stacking both sheets directly on top of each other I was able to cut two bowling pins at a time – and, then I also had two scoresheets.
I hope your dolls have fun playing with today’s activity!
Firstie
Char,how many ag dolls do you have?
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Our entire collection minus McKenna can be found here: http://dolldiaries.com/our-girls-decked-out-in-shades-of-pink/
Secondie!
We already have a doll sized bowling alley with pins and balls that my sisters got. But were missing half of the pins…
Wow! Thanks Char! It must be lots of fun at your house!
how cool is that!!!!
i really want the og bowling outfit. i have a target giftcard so maybe i’ll buy it!!! is it good and worth the buying char?
I love this!
Cool!
So adorable and cute!
Char, did you get my email?
Yes and I hope to post it all very soon
So cute!
Ok thanks, Char! I’m so glad that you made up doll diaries! It’s my very favorite site!
Adollable!
Thanks Delaney! I have a lot of fun with Doll Diaries.
Cool! I love boWling
Char, do you plan on still doing Doll Diaries, if Natalie outgrows dolls? I hope you do Doll Diaries for as long as possible, because I just love DD!
Delaney – the good news is that I love dolls just as much as Natalie does and based on Natalie’s personality, I don’t think she will outgrow dolls – she may move to different dolls or playing with them differently. Plus I expect her to become more involved in the site as she gets older.
Char, I am glad! I have a site (reserved) but i haven’t it set up yet. I hopefully will soon or just start a blog.