Kids can practice their placekicking -- and increase the challenge as their aim improves -- with this adjustable goalpost made from pool noodles.

What You Need

• Two 48-inch (1/2-inch diameter) wooden dowels
• 3 pool noodles

• 2 pool noodle connectors
• Football

Instructions

1. For your own goalpost, first mark two spots 5 feet apart for the uprights. Set a dowel 6 inches into the ground at each spot, then slip a pool noodle over each dowel. Fit a pool noodle connector on each end of the third noodle, then slide the connectors onto the upright noodles for a crossbar.

2. Have kids take turns holding the pigskin and booting it over the goalpost, gradually sliding the crossbar higher as they master each height.

Tips:

No pool noodles left over from the summer swimming season? You can order noodles and connectors online at www.poolcenter.com or www.pooltoy.com.

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