Funny Gingerbread Bowling Christmas Shirt Tis The Season To Roll Pins Tree Lights

The gingerbread bowler on this shirt is caught mid-release, one leg stretched far behind him, red sunglasses perched on his round face, a grin wide enough to say he already knows how the frame will end. His green ball has just left his hand and the pins wait at the end of a glossy lane, each one dotted with a red or green ornament as if it had been hung on the tree standing right behind them.

A Funny Gingerbread Bowling Christmas Shirt Mid-Throw Beside the Tree

Bold icing letters arch across the top to spell out Tis The Season, and To Roll sits underneath, so the phrase wraps around him like a banner hung over a lane. Every letter has the soft white drizzle of a cookie fresh off the decorating table, and the same icing trims his wrists, ankles and neck. We kept the joke easy to catch. It borrows a line from a carol, and anyone who has ever cheered a strike across a crowded alley will get it right away.

Our funny gingerbread bowling Christmas shirt is made for the person who books the lanes for the family every December and for the friend who keeps a personal ball in the trunk all year. It also fits the coworker who turns the holiday party into a best-of-three tournament, since the cookie on the shirt takes the game seriously while still wearing sunglasses indoors.

Christmas Lights Looped Around the Lane

Strands of colored bulbs loop along the edge of the polished lane, glowing red, yellow, blue and green around the ball that is already on its way. Past the pins stands a small tree topped with a gold star, its branches hung with tiny ornaments. It is a cozy picture of an alley at night, with snow falling outside and a wreath hanging over the shoe counter. Warm light, slick wood, one cookie with perfect form.

When the holiday gathering moves from the living room to the bowling alley, this is the design that ends up in the group photo, usually beside someone holding a trophy made from a glued-together pin. Cousins compare scores on a napkin, grandparents pick the lightest ball on the rack, and a shirt like this one gives the youngest bowler a character to cheer for between turns. We like designs that fit into a day with a lot of people in it, and this one does.

Will the Gingerbread Bowler Still Make Sense After Christmas Week?

The winter theme carries easily into January league nights, because the tree and string lights read as seasonal rather than tied to a single date. The gingerbread bowler keeps his sunglasses on either way, so the shirt works for any cold-weather evening at the lanes.

Somewhere between the second frame and the last, he will still be mid-release in his red sunglasses, and someone at the next lane will ask where you found him.