The acrylic pieces were attached. A long one for the bottom and one to attach as a lip and then dividers to make individual pockets. Just need enough for the ball or whatever to fall into it and be easy for you to reach in and get it out. No I do not know the cost. It was about a
4'-5'x 5'or 6' and was slanted to be about 3.5-4' tall in the back where the child would stand and drop the ball in. We had no problem with any rods coming out so they must have used some powerful adhesive ! Hope this helps !
I love those Bens' !!
You might want to experiment with the pegboard and tennis balls. When I tried that, it didn't take to many times until the tennis ball caused the dowels to work themselves out of the holes.
I would suggest using ping pong balls. They won't hit the dowels so hard.
Did they attach the clear acrylic pieces to the bottom for the balls to fall into? Or did they have them separate? Do you know about how much it cost and how big they made it? We were thinking about making our between 3 and 4 feet tall.
[ 02-25-2004, 04:04 PM: Message edited by: Lisa Stovall ]
Our president and her hubby made one for our festival. Pegboard,dowel rods cut into 5" pieces and glued in, space rods apart and next row down move rods over some to offset pattern etc., put legs on top side to tilt to child friendly size, paint it bright colors (optional)and/or decorate it, use tennis balls to drop down or round disks, have pockets in the bottom for the ball to drop down in (they used clear acrylic pieces)and put different symbols in the pockets to offer different prizes. We put a gold star in 2 pockets and a nicer prize was chosen for those, if you landed in others you still got a small prize. It was a big hit !!
Some parents made a freestanding one for our carnival last year. They said it was time consuming but not that difficult. The kids loved it and it is so well made we will be able to use it for many years with a little careful storage.
It was so popular that one of the other schools in our district asked to borrow it for their school carnival and others asked about how to make it. (Our carnival draws families from every school in our district and even parents with preschoolers and senior citizens! We have been able to make it more of a community event.)
There was one in a recent Family Fun magazine that was easy to make. Check out their website archives...the focus of that particular magazine was Backyard Carnivals and it had some other good ideas! :cool:
