14 January 2011

DIY dining room table tennis

In: 6+ Years, Fun Projects + Activities

via gogingham.com

From Sarah at Go Gingham: how to use your dining room table for ping pong!

COMMENTS: 8

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I thought of doing this BUT do the balls mess up the table surface? What I would really like is for the Nerf people to start selling those ping pong sets again. Had a lot of fun with those when I was a kid.

Posted by: anon | 14 January 2011 at 07:53 AM

Amazingly, they do not. This "sport" has been extremely gentle on our table.

Posted by: Sara Tetreault | 14 January 2011 at 08:47 AM

Our kitchen table is an oval, but our rarely-used dining room table is a spacious rectangle.

Posted by: adrienne | 14 January 2011 at 10:53 AM

this is brilliant. i have an old table in the basement that i'm totally repurposing for this! yay!

Posted by: lynne | 14 January 2011 at 01:29 PM

What a fun idea!

Posted by: Asianmommy | 15 January 2011 at 11:45 AM

Genius! Thanks!

Posted by: Maggie | 18 January 2011 at 06:02 AM

Wow this brings me back, we used to do this when we were kids, thanks for the reminder!

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Posted by: Bob Murphy | 19 January 2011 at 02:08 PM

That is so clever. I don't know about using my dining room table, but I have another table that will work just great. My kids are going to love it.

Posted by: Sitter Sue | 23 January 2011 at 05:00 PM

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