How To Make A Catapult With Rubber Bands And Pencils

Tie a rubber band about an inch from the erasers and tie a second rubber band about an inch from the tips.

How to make a catapult with rubber bands and pencils. Arrange 3 pencils into an equilateral triangle. Subscribe for more good stuff coming soon. To make it take two pencils. Video by good stuff experiments.

These popsicle stick catapults make a great stem activity we used technology to assist us in building our simple catapults. Line them up so that the erasers are together. Easy and fun to build and a lot more fun to play with. The erasers will act as grippy feet for your catapult.

We used science to test how far the catapults flung the items we chose. For extra stability down the road make sure at least one side of your triangle has two eraser ends pointing down. Use rubber bands to bind them together where they meet. You need cardboard a rubber band pen.

Before you sharpen those pencils design your own pencil catapult. We have made catapults from marshmallows popsicle sticks lego and plastic spoons cardboard tube rolls but never from pencils. How to make this nice style catapult from pencils. Take three pencils and wrap them together using rubber bands.

How to build a catapult. Use unsharpened unused pencils that are the exactly the same length. Make a pencil triangle. We used math to determine the supplies needed to build the catapults.

We used our engineering skills to actually build the popsicle stick catapults. You may need and extra hand to help when it comes to holding the pencils and twisting the rubber bands. The stock is the base the part of the crossbow upon which everything rests. Beano makes pencil catapult how to make some epic pencil powered projectiles.