Funny Bowling Gifts

Considering the shirts and shoes that go along with the sport, giving someone a serious bowling gift can seem a bit odd. While most enthusiastic bowlers would love to receive their very own custom engraved bowling ball, there's not as much fun in the giving of a gift like that. Funny t-shirts are the usual go-to gift when shopping for a bowling fan, but there are other options that can allow you all to enjoy the game together.

  1. Gnome Bowling

    • Love them or hate them, garden gnomes are everywhere. Looking at just the general shape of them, with their wide little bodies and tall pointy red hats, garden gnomes really don't look that much different than bowling pins. They're also just as easy to knock over. All you really need to do is find enough of them to make a small bowling set. Since your neighbors might not like that, an even easier option is buying your resident bowling lover a set of six 12-inch tall plastic garden gnome bowling pins (the set also comes with 2 balls). This version of the game can be played anywhere by young and old alike and can also double as garden decorations when you're not using them.

    Giant Bowling Game

    • Trying to hit all those pins with one little ball (and not end up with a gutter ball every time) can be a bit of a challenge. To make playing the game even easier for them and give true bowling fans a laugh on their birthday, try an extra large bowling set. This giant bowling set doesn't have more pins than a traditional set; in fact, there's even less than you find at a bowling alley. Instead, this game has blown the size of the pins from 15 inches to nearly double that size at 29 inches tall. Inflatable, these pins are also much easier to knock down and the fun in this game comes from deciding new and different ways propel the massive ball into them.

    Bowling Knights

    • In fairy tales, a gallant knight always saves the captured princess from fire breathing dragons. To live happily ever after in this amusing miniature bowling game (very miniature since the pins are only 4 inches high), nine knights must save the beautiful pink princess from being knocked over by madly spinning dragons and balls of fire. Placed on a table in the middle of the knight-shaped pins, rather than knocking down all of the pins, the goal of Bowling Knights is to have one pin left standing at the end: the princess pin.