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| Draw a simple face on a piece of paper, attach to any type of stand alone container and you have a set of pins! |
Halloween and our study of 3 dimensional shapes happen at the same time. Here is a fun, hands on Halloween and shape game. Create a set of ghost pins by drawing a simple face on a white piece of paper and taping it to cylindrical shaped containers. I used oatmeal containers and 1 coffee can. Make 10 ghosts.
Use any ball or sphere to knock the pins down.
You can also create a graph of how many cylinders each student knocked down to teach graph interpretation and probability.
If you want to be extra thematic the students can wear a cone or pyramid shaped witch's hat or birthday hat and/or try using a cube or rectangular prism (made from appropriately sized and shaped boxes, such as a cereal box or tissue container) to knock the cylinders down. You can also graph which shape was used to knock the cylinders down and determine which shape is best at rolling.
Happy Bowling!
