Overview
The children will bowl a ball and try to bump the letter B as they recognize and name the letter B.
 
Literacy Activities
Bowl down bottles 

• Write the letter B on a whiteboard, name the letter, and have the children write the B in the air with their fingers. 
• Help the children write a B with blue, brown, or black markers on small pieces of paper or sticky notes then attach the papers to the plastic bottles. 
• Set up the bottles like bowling pins. 
• Have the children take turns “bowling,” using two hands as they straddle the ball to roll it. 
• As the ball rolls, have the children repeat the name of the letter B until the ball bumps a bottle. 
• When a child’s ball bumps a bottle and knocks it over, have the child say, “I bowled over a B bottle!” 

More Practice 
Write the target letter 

• Give the children a bowling pin coloring page and markers or crayons. 
• Support the children as needed in writing the letter B on and around the bowling pin. 
• Tell the children to color the bowling pin with crayons or markers to make it beautiful.