Free Christmas Present Shooting Game (10-Minute Craft)

Need a quick craft for your next Christmas lesson or events? This plastic PET Bottle Christmas Present Shooting Game is super quick and easy to make! In fact, it’s so easy that it can be made in under 10 minutes.  And best of all, you can probably make them with materials you already have in your classroom or house. We decided to make these with our students since our Halloween Ghost Blasters Shooting Game was such a massive hit!

This Christmas Present Shooting Game is great for lessons, parties, and events because kids love the process of making the plastic PET bottle shooter and then knocking over the presents to see what’s underneath. We have two target templates available. The first template has various presents that appear after getting knocked over. The other template has points like our template for Halloween targets.

Our Christmas Present Shooting Game is exciting because of the simple physics concept of creating an air gun using a partial vacuum with a balloon and plastic PET bottle. The supplies used are common household things, but kids are amazed when they realize that they can make a Christmas Present Blasting Game!

Another great thing about our Christmas Present Shooting Game for teachers is its educational value. The free, printable Present Targets have pictures of popular toys and Christmas presents that kids love. They can practice the words: toys, yo-yo, blocks, kite, unicycle, stuffed animal, doll, video game, and other useful vocabulary words. Whether you choose to use the points targets or the vocabulary targets, there are many ways to play the plastic PET Bottle Christmas Present Shooting Game.

Are plastic PET Bottle Blasters safe?

Of course these blasters are safe! In fact, shooting Christmas presents with these low-power air blasters is much safer than shooting Christmas presents with real guns. You could shoot your eye out with a real gun, but that’s 99.999% impossible with a soft blast of air. In other words, they’re totally safe. Just remember to remind your students or kids never to point an air blaster (or any gun for that matter) at a person.

Also, don’t forget to securely tape the balloon to the plastic PET bottle to prevent it from coming off when being pulled. If you don’t, the balloon could come off, ruining the experience of shooting Christmas presents.  To be extra safe, you can also use goggles while going postal on the Christmas presents.

You can make a simple plastic PET Bottle Shooter, or you can get a little more elaborate and add Christmas decorations if you want. The instructions for the basic plastic PET Bottle Christmas Present Shooting Game below uses a 500ml plastic PET Bottle, a large balloon, some electrical tape, and our free printable present targets with points and printable name card for inside the plastic bottle.