• One or two small round pumpkins
• Knife to cut pumpkin  (Kids:  Get adult help with the knife!)
• 3 (12 or 18 oz.) empty plastic soda bottles (or as many bottles as you like up to 12 bottles)
• Tops for the bottles
• Sand
• 1 yard of white felt or fabric
• Scissors  (Kids:  Get adult help with those scissors!)
• Needle & thread or heavy-duty tape
• Magic marker
• Smooth ground surface area about 12 feet long and 3 feet wide.  (Note:  This game should be played either outside or in an area that can be easily cleaned up.)

• Take a pumpkin cutting knife and cut three finger-size holes in the usual bowling ball pattern.  (Thumb, index finger and middle finger should fit in the holes.)
• Place about 3 tablespoons (or more) of sand (or kitty litter or something else heavy you have on hand) into the bottles.  This will help keep the "pins" standing upright.
• Replace caps onto the bottles.
• Cut ghost shapes out of the 1 yard of white felt or fabric.  Sew or tape together and slip over the soda bottles.
• Color ghost faces on the bowling pin ghosts with a black permanent marker.

• Place the ghost soda bottle "pins" at one end of the bowling alley.
• Kids take turns bowling with pumpkins.
• Each ghost pin knocked down is one point.  The one with the most points wins.
• Have fun!

Many thanks to Debi B. for this terrific game idea.