How to make a ring toss carnival game

One game I decided to do myself was the ring toss game. It was easy, budget-friendly and I knew it would be a hit with the kids. We had beer bottles laying around the house. Step 1. Take a piece of cardboard, or something sturdy enough so the bottles can stand upright while you spray paint. Be sure to keep space between the bottles when spraying.

I used a piece of cardboard on the grass, placed the bottles upright on the cardboard, and sprayed each one. Your youngest players should be about 1 yardstick away from the bottles. This traditional carnival game is really a game of luck - it is difficult to place a ring directly on a soda bottle, so generally they bounce around the bottles and the player is lucky if they ring a bottle! One more great reason to choose this game aside from ease in setup is that it almost advertises itself!

When the hard plastic rings bounce off the bottles, it make a clanking sound, and seems to add to the festive atmosphere of any event! Carnival players are given five rings to try their hand "ringing" one of the individual glass sodas. If they ring a soda, they get to keep a two liter bottle soda as their carnival prize. If they loop more than one, they can choose which one they keep - but they can only keep ONE. If players do not "ring" a bottle, they receive a consolation prize.

Even more games look cute, but won't hold up in a real carnival with real kids. Fish bowl game with plastic cups? Not so fast At one point, we had some clear ones with water in them, but the table was soaked and horrible-looking by the end of the event. So which game to make? Definitely a Ring Toss! Here's how:. First, collect at least 24 bottles. If you have to buy them, it's probably not going to be cheap or easy. Don't be fooled by Pinterest - glass coke bottles are neither cheap nor easy to find I know because I had to buy 56 of them for my own ring toss.

And by the way, after I dumped them all out and cleaned them all, I had to use Goo-Off to remove all the giant white bar code labels, and it took forever and stunk up my house.

Glass Coke bottles are about a dollar each and are cheaper full of Coke than empty. So don't buy. Collect anything from anyone - wine bottles, soda bottles, lemonade, whatever.

They don't need to match.