How to Make Glow-in-the-Dark Ping-Pong Balls

LED ping-pong tables are popping up in homes, arcades and indoor amusement parks around the country, offering players an intense, fast-paced version of the game played in the dark. But even if you still have a standard, old-fashioned ping-pong table, you can transform this favorite recreational pastime into an extreme, play-in-the-dark game with a black light and a little glow-in-the-dark paint. Learn how to make ping-pong balls glow in the dark with easy-to-use, lightweight spray paint, and give your old ping-pong table a nighttime makeover with colorless paint that glows in the dark or under black light while youre at it.

Instructions

1

Push a straight pin one-third of the way through a plain ping pong ball.

2

Hold the ping-pong ball by the pin you inserted with one hand, and spray a light coat of the paint onto the ball with the other.

3

Tie a piece of thin string around the base of the pin. Tie the other end of the string from a show curtain rod, overhead pipe or other area where the ball can hang to air dry.

4

Remove the string and the pin once the ball is dry. Your ping-pong ball will now glow in the dark or underneath a black light.