I looked up ideas for the boys’ summer fun this spring and came across Baker County 4-H page titled Craft Stick Creativity with a simple tongue depressor size popsicle stick catapult, but no instructions. Soon after I found Super Charged Science. What a great homeschooling science resource, which happened to have instructions for our catapult!
Also I found the video How to Make a Popsicle Stick Catapult. I don’t normally list videos as resources but this was clear and simple enough that Cutie Pie watched it, walked away and remembered the steps. Bonus that it was by a young teenager, which boosted Cutie Pie’s mind that he could assemble it walk me through the steps to assemble it as it took a little more fine motor strength and coordination than he has.
Cutie Pie really enjoyed trying to figure out how to make the “bottle cap catapult” referring only to the picture to assemble it and it turned out great! We then looked at the instructions and discovered we created it just like they did!
He also really liked watching the video and then working through the steps to create the “popsicle stick catapult”.
Even though Sweet Pea was going a little stir crazy by the end of this process and making a mess in the other room it was worth it to see Cutie Pie so proud of his creations! More tomorrow on what we did with our catapults!
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This is very cool!! Thanks for posting this:)
I will be checking out more of your ideas and projects, as I also have 2 boys;p But I also have 2 girls lol!
We are always looking and sharing fun stuff to do!
I found you on A Mommy’s Blog Design;) Stop by Busymommylist sometime!!