Morgan Hyde

Activity: Quiet Bowling

Age Group: 5 Years and Up

Benefits: Increases communication, helps build confidence, fun.

Equipment: KORXX Blocks or Building blocks. An open area, and a group of 4 or

more. Enough building blocks to cover the full group.

Goal: The goal of the “quiet bowling” activity is to allow the young children to learn to
be competitive and allow them to do the things their parents are doing on a much safer scale.

Objectives:

Cognitive: By the end of the event, the kid will be able to name everyone in the group by
name.

Psychomotor: During the activity, the kids will bowl against each other and be able to
bowl correctly.

Affective: The kids will bowl a full set without getting mixed up on the rules.

Organization of Group: Group will meet in the area where the blocks are set up for bowling. The
group will face the leader. When the activity starts, the group will all be in a circle to be
organized into pairs for their teams. We will use the childhood game “mickey mouse peed on a
house” as the way for choosing the teams. Each person dropped from the game in order will be
pairs. For example: the first person to be out of the circle is in pair number 1 and the second
person out of the circle is the second partner of pair number 1.

Purpose of Game: The purpose of the game is to knock down the most pins consecutively to
create the highest score. Beat the pairs you are matched against.

Directions:
Quiet Bowling: Introduction to game.
Have you met a classmate that you have not agreed with or seen eye to eye
with as far as your personality or confidence?

Well quiet bowling allows you to enjoy a competitive environment with a quiet style of
bowling that doesn’t make them fear the noise of the actual sport.
Morgan Hyde

Rules:
Set one spherical KORXX Block aside and use your remaining KORXX
blocks to build various shapes or towers on the floor.
When the kid sees it, ask him or her if they have ever heard of bowling before.
You can demonstrate how to roll the ball rather than throw it. We liked placing our
thumb in the divot of the sphere, similar to a real bowling ball.

Take turns being the pin setter and the bowler.

The kids keeping score also helps with math and writing practice.

Safety Concerns: Loose blocks could be a choking or tripping hazard and could be
dangerous if thrown at each other.

References: MarschelLaura, Laura. “Quiet Bowling Activity for Kids with KORXX Blocks.”
LalyMom,​ 1 Dec. 2016, lalymom.com/quiet-bowling-activity-kids/.