Design this easy catapult with craft sticks a spoon and rubbers bands we first ran into this popsicle stick catapult design at the magic house maker workshop.
How to build a catapult with popsicle sticks and rubber bands and a spoon.
An alternative to steps 5 to 7 would be to tie a plastic spoon to the upper popsicle stick with the help of a rubber band.
How to make a popsicle sticks catapult build a mini catapult buy popsicle craft sticks.
The shooting power can be altered by pressing harder or lighter on the uppermost popsicle stick.
This popsicle stick catapult design is very similar to the one above except you are replacing the spoon with the bottle cap.
To do this you need a hot glue gun and a cap from a water bottle or sports drink bottle.
The idea is pretty simple and there s lots of variations.
You can adjust the distance of the shot by setting the popsicle stick trio forward or backward in the gap.
We used math to determine the supplies needed to build the catapults.
We used science to test how far the catapults flung the items we chose.
We used our engineering skills to actually build the popsicle stick catapults.
How to build a catapult.