Swing-Bowling

I think we are all going a little stir crazy with the lock down now and every day is starting to feel like groundhog day. The home schooling is so hard and its a challenge to keep the kids entertained with different activities (especially now the weather has turned and the traditional British rain is back).

In an attempt to do something different yesterday I found an old inflatable garden bowling set which I decided to blow up. We started off using the inflatable bowling ball as the game was designed to be played. This soon progressed to kicking footballs at the pins. Then Brandon came up with the genius idea of using the swing-ball to try and knock the pics over, thus creating a new game called swing-bowl.

Also notice in the pictures that the old trampoline is finally fixed. God only knows how old it is, but the bouncing mat was tarting to tear so I figured I would order a new one before one of the kids fell through it and had a serious injury. It took 3 attempts to get the right size as I learnt you cannot just buy an 8ft mat, you need to know the correct spring size as well!!! 

Holly shoots a football at the inflatable pics.

2 down and four to go.

Brandon's genius idea of mixing swing-ball with bowling.

Joshua lines up for a serve.

And takes out the first blue pin.

Even Holly had a go and eventually knocked all the pics down, the purple one was a bit tough as it somehow had quite a bit of water in it which weighed it down somewhat.