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Junior sized bowling set includes a ball with easy finger holes and six pins. The pins are clear and have colorful balls that tumble and rattle inside.
Approx. Price: $19.99 Box Age Range: 2+ yrs # of Pieces: 6-10 Washability: Surface Wipe Storability: Bulky Directions: Simple Play Locations: Indoor and Outdoor Adjustability: Position Levels of Play: One Level Batteries: None needed
This game can be played independently or with a friend.
The pins are all uniform in color and size. There is no order, such as number or size that needs to be remembered to set up the pins.
The game play is simple and easy to understand.
Skills
Play with a friend and take turns setting up the pins and rolling the ball. This works on patience, turn taking and appropriate social conduct.
Counting and simple math can be naturally incorporated into play as children count the six pins, count the balls inside each pin, count how many pins have been knocked down, and count how many pins are left standing.
Visual tracking is a pre-literacy skill that can be targeted by watching the ball roll towards the pins.
Play Ideas
Hide the pins around the room. Provide the child with clues – verbally to practice receptive language or written to incorporate literacy.
Pretend the pins are people and have them talk to each other. To make this activity more concrete, use masking tape to make faces on the pins.
Pretend one pin is a baby bottle for a large doll or stuffed animal.
When knocked down, the pins create a loud tumbling sound that often motivates continued play.
The pins are all uniform in color and size. There is no order, such as number or size that needs to be remembered to set up the pins.
The ball is large and can be held with one or two hands.
Skills
Counting and simple math can be naturally incorporated into play as children count the six pins, count the balls inside each pin, count how many pins have been knocked down, and count how many pins are left standing.
Learning the colors of the three balls that rattle inside each pin can be a targeted activity.
Bowling can help improve eye-hand coordination. Children use their eyes to see the pins and aim the ball and their physical movement to hold and roll the ball to hit the pins.
Hand grasp and timed release are practiced as children roll the ball towards the pins.
Visual tracking is a pre-literacy skill that can be targeted by watching the ball roll towards the pins.
There is a sequence of steps that takes place when children set up the pins one by one, pick up the ball, aim and roll the ball to the pins. Then retrieve the pins and repeat. This repetition helps children learn the sequence, remember it and recall what has to happen to successfully bowl.
Play Ideas
Make math more tangible. Use the pins as number representations to help with counting or simple adding exercises.
Hide the pins around the room and have the child find them. As pins are found, the child can use simple math skills to determine how many are left to be found.
Pretend one pin is a baby bottle for a large doll or stuffed animal.
Adaptation Ideas
Create “gutter guards” with large blocks or couch cushions to guide the ball towards the pins. This helps children be more successful and gain self confidence in play.
On a piece of large, flat paper, make a mat to indicate pin placement. This will help children set the pins up independently.
The balls inside each pin provide auditory stimulation and can be felt moving within the pins with slight vibration giving tactile stimulation.
The pins are clear with three small, colored balls inside.
When knocked down, the pins produce increased rattle sounds due to the hard plastic of the pins hitting the floor and the balls that rolls inside each pin.
The three finger/thumb holes help a child orient himself to the ball and grasp and hold it.
The ball is a solid blue color that contrasts nicely to light-colored floors.
Skills
Visual tracking is a pre-literacy skill that can be targeted by watching the ball roll towards the pins.
There is a sequence of steps that takes place when children set up the pins one by one, pick up the ball, aim and roll the ball to the pins. Then retrieve the pins and repeat. This repetition helps children learn the sequence, remember it and recall what has to happen to successfully bowl.
Play Ideas
Use two pins as maracas to shake or bang together.
Adaptation Ideas
Use a small play slide or a couch cushion leaning on an angle to the floor to assist a child in rolling the ball towards the pins.
Create “gutter guards” with large blocks or couch cushions to guide the ball towards the pins. This helps children be more successful and gain self confidence in play.
Play can take place in a stationary position by having a caregiver set up the pins.
The ball has three thumb/finger holes to help a child grasp and hold it.
The ball is large enough for a child to use two hands to grab it.
The pins are easy to grasp by the top or neck area.
There is no guide for pin position so they can be placed closer together or farther apart to assist a child and his individual needs.
The pins have flat bottoms that are big enough in diameter to be set up easily and solidly.
Skills
Visual tracking is a pre-literacy skill that can be targeted by watching the ball roll towards the pins.
Children gain a whole body workout as they roll the ball to hit the pins. This strengthens core muscles. Further movement is encouraged when children retrieve the pins to play again.
Arm extension and range of motion are encouraged when children swing the ball and release it towards the pins.
Children use motor planning skills and coordinated movement to set up the pins, grasp the ball and release it to knock down the pins.
Bang two pins together to make music. This works on hand grasp, bilateral coordination and midline play.
Children learn how to control strength as they alter the amount of force used to successfully roll the ball and the pins.
Depth perception is a practiced skill that is reinforced with the repetitive nature of bowling.
Play Ideas
Hide the pins around the room to encourage children to use their motor skills to crawl, cruise or walk to find them.
Use the pins as cones for an obstacle course.
Adaptation Ideas
Use a small play slide or a couch cushion leaning on an angle to the floor to assist a child in rolling the ball towards the pins.
Cut a large cardboard box to make a corral for the pins. Cut the box so the front and top are open and easily accessible. Set up the pins in the box. This will help give the child a large visual cue to aim for and will prevent the pins from rolling far out of reach.
