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We recently went bowling with Aiden, and he loved it so much that I decided to build him an outdoor bowling alley.

This was super easy to do only took me about 3 hours (half of that time was letting the paint dry).

For those of you who like visuals here is the video below

Materials / Tools to build the bowling alley

(3) 1x2x8 pine board
(2) 1x4x4 pine board
(1) 16 inch x 4 ft pine board
Brad nailler
Brad nails
wood glue
Black spray paint
Polyurethane sealer (optional) I decided to use a polyuerthanse sealer since we will be leaving this outdoors.
Bowling pins

Cricut Joy
Cricut Joy Starter Tools
Black Permanent Smart Vinyl
Mint Permanent Smart Vinyl
Cricut Joy Transfer tape

Step 1 Measure your pieces of wood and cut them

I used this 16 inch x 4 ft pine board as the the lane which already comes this length.

I used this 1×2 pine board for the bottom frame that I cut into 4 pieces
(2) cut to 16in inches
(2) cut to 46 inches

I used this 1×4 pine board for the guardrails.
(2) cut to 22 inches
(1) cut to 14 inches

I used a miter saw to make all those cuts, if you don’t own one you can have the hardware stores cut it for you.

Step 2 Put together the guardrails and paint

Put together the guard rails using the 1×4 pieces with wood glue and the brad nailer.

I did this step first so that I could paint it first and let it dry while I worked on designing the stickers for the bowling alley

Step 3 put the guard rails on the alley lane

Since I don’t have a Kreg to make pocket holes I decide to use glue and my brad nailer to put the guardrails first.

Step 4 Put the bottom frame on the bowling lane

Once that is secure put the bottom frame directly on the bottom of the bowling alley. I did this instead of building the frame separately, since I don’t have a Kreg jig.

Step 5 Use your Cricut Joy to design your stickers

I used the Alphabet Soup Std tilt font for my letters and numbers.

The hardest part about this was finding the font I wanted because there are so many awesome choices. Once I was happy with the size I used my Cricut Joy to cut everything.

Step 6 Add your stickers to the Bowling lane & pins.

Step 7 Use this polyurethane spray to seal it and thats it!