No. 1 – PET BASKETBALL
How to prepare it
The hose-pipe, e.g. the hose used in gardening, is inserted into a bottle. The hose-pipe helps us to put the next bottle, specially arranged and cut in the half, with a side hole (as you can see on the picture) on the top of the first bottle. So the shape of basketball stand is created. Children use the little ping-pong or tennis ball, or any other kind of foam or gum ball of similar size. According to the size of the ball we modify the above mentioned hole of the plastic bottle. We ensure the stability of the plastic bottle by filling the bottom of it (circa the 20 % of the bottle's height) for example with the sand or gravel. Users may adjust or modify the shape of the bottles by their own conception of the construction, design of the game.
How to run the game
Children throw the balls in the plastic bottle. They may throw the ball directly to the top hole of the basketball stand or they throw it on the surface, place in front of the stand, or on the bottle placed on the surface in front of the basketball stand in the horizontal position (to make it more difficult). The ball has to fall into the basket of the basketball stand. When the ball gets off the basket (the player scores), the game continues by falling of the ball into the paper basket (the paper basket could be made e.g. of the paper egg holder). Different paper baskets are labelled by the different numbers (scores), which gains the player when the ball falls there.
Comment
The basketball stand can be put either on the floor or on the table. It could be also hung on the wall or on the door. The author will complete the supplementary combinations of the game arrangements by putting the game in the praxis.
Pictures illustrating the description
© Rideg Ján, 2010