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How To Make An Easter Egg Bowling Set

The other day I was chatting with Clara and I asked her a few questions just for fun (the girl has some serious opinions). Her response to: “what do you think the Easter Bunny’s favorite colors are?” was: “green and blue.” It was a completely matter-of-fact delivery. Not a doubt in her mind. Then, just to see what she thought, I asked what she thought the Easter Bunny did when it wasn’t Easter and he wasn’t busy delivering eggs. How did he pass the time? Her answer: he goes bowling.

Awesome.

And then that night when I was sitting on the couch after I tucked her in, it gave me an idea… what if I slipped a little homemade egg-bowling set into her Easter basket this year? Yup, egg bowling. I could even make the egg pins green and blue. So I started with these little wooden eggs (scored for 99 cents a pop at Michael’s)…

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… and ten bucks and a few hours later, I had this:

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They don’t exactly fall over like real pins (so if you’re a grown up aiming for a strike, you might be miffed) but if you’re a kid who likes rolling things into each other and watching them all splay out and shoot in different directions, you’re golden.

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As for the how-I-did it, you know we like to keep things short and sweet over here (we think of Young House Life like a photo album, so we mainly just slap up photos or videos over here without a ton of words) but here’s my quick & easy rundown:

  1. I picked up 10 wooden eggs for 99 cents each at Michael’s
  2. I painted each row of them with various test pots of paint that I already had on hand (4 with Tropical Waters, 3 with Mirage Lake,  2 with Shamrock, and 1 with Japanese Fern, all by Behr)
  3. I let them dry (after two coats each of paint) and then coated them with two coats of spray sealer (Aileen’s Sealer in Gloss) just so the paint would be more protected when bowling occurred
  4. I dug a round blue wooden ball out of the ottoman from an old toddler toy Clara played with around her first birthday to act as the bowling ball (but I’m sure you could find a round wood ball at a craft store like the eggs)

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So there you have it. A funny and random Easter basket gift that’s interactive (and based on the amazing mind of the bean). Can we just talk about how awesome it is that she is completely convinced that she knows the Easter Bunny well enough to unequivocally state his favorite colors and pastimes? I love it.

Comments

  1. Amy Barber says

    Okay, probably one of your most creative ideas I’ve seen you have on your blog, which says a lot! Good thing your daughter didn’t say he played lawn darts :P Fun memory I plan to do: Parents told us an easter-egg multi-colored ornate Victorian house in our neighborhood in NJ was where the Easter bunny lived. It made perfect sense, if you ever see one you can pass off- do it! I loved thinking THE easter bunny lived near my house.

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  2. Anastasia says

    I don’t know if I am just *too* excited for Sunday’s season 3 premier or you were really making a play on “Winter is coming” from Game of Thrones but either way adorable project! And I love where the inspiration came from!

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  5. Lauren says

    You are the f**king bomb mom.

    If more parents were like you, we’d be living with happier, more content people in the world.

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  10. Nicole J says

    I LOVE this idea….I am so going tonight to see if I can score any on Clearance….(it’s too late for this year but I can have them ready for next year)

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  12. Lesley says

    Hoping for a little egg and Bean-sized Big Lebowski video action. Or has she decided to cook with them too?

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    • Young House Life says

      Oh man she loves them! We’ll have to share some photos of Easter. We had so much fun!

      xo
      s

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