Make a Bamboo Skewer Shooter

Realized you're going to get in a fight soon, and having nothing to defend yourself with ?
See someone charging at qu, but are unable to slow them down so you can get away ?
Want to practice your aim, but have no projectiles ?
Need answers? Look no farther

STEP

Quick Method

1. Find a long elastic band, one that should fit over your head.

2.  Make an L with your non dominant hand and put the elastic band over it so when you look at it straight; it should look like a gun.

3.  Put the skewer on the opposite end of the elastic, pull it back, taking care it's facing in the exact middle of the space you created, and shoot.

Proper Method

 1. Take a pen, or a mechanical pencil with a body that's just a little wider than a bamboo skewer.

2.  Take out all mechanisms so its a hollow tube.

3. Take a very long elastic band and tie it around one end, but making sure there's still enough of the band left to pull back.

4.  Put the bamboo skewer into the tube.

5.  Pull the elastic band to the skewer, put it on, and pull it back far enough so that the skewer's tip and a little bit of the body are still in the skewer, but most of its sticking out.

 WARNINGS

• In the quick method, don't shoot your hand.
• This can hurt somebody a lot, even in the quick method, and can even put somebody's eye out. Use at your own risk.
• Even though this weapon is strong, it shouldn't be for day to day self protection. Use another weapon, such as a knife or metal rod, or hire a body guard.

TIPS for me

• In the quick method, keep your fingers as far apart as you can.
• In the proper method, try to have the tube around a four milimetres bigger than the tube in all directions for best results.
• Try to find the longest elastic band you can.
• The tube is to give better aim and a more focused shot.

Make a Rocket Pen

Things You'll Need

• A clicking pen
• Lots of springs
• Scissors or a nail file.

Steps

1. Find a click pen, with a top which is metal, or hard plastic, that you can easily unscrew. Make sure that the pen isn't broken or cracked, and has a usable spring, as the pen will not work without one.
2.  Unscrew the top of the pen, and remove all contents, including any types of removable external parts of the pen.
3. Once the contents have been removed, begin to shave away the ridges using scissors, or a nail file, where the top is twisted on. Shave the pen enough to pull the top off easily, but DO NOT shave the ridges completely away, as the top will not stay on the pen.
4. Place at least one spring inside the pen, (where you found it earlier) and completely twist the top back onto the pen.
5.  if you glue the spring in with a small dab of glue, the spring won't launch off with the pen, thus saving you a lost spring.
6.  Aiming away from your face, click the now rigged pen, and watch as the top bursts out of the pen at full speed. You have now created a successful rocket pen.

Tips

• The more springs you obtain, the farther the 'launch'.
• If you click the pen, and it simply clicks like a regular pen, press on the clicking mechanism hard, until the top flies off. If this fails, continue to shave the ridges of the pen.
• Since ALL the contents will normally fly out, test your rocket pen in an open space, so you are able to track the contents easily.

Warnings

• Don't shoot at people, unless out of self-defense. (This includes siblings).
• Aim only towards a certain target while 'launching' the top; Not at your face.

Make a Wooden Gun

This is a how to guide on making a wooden gun at home for play purposes.

Things You'll Need

• Tape
• Drill
• Screws

Steps  

1.) Get a piece of wood that is about 60cm either from a shop or if you have a workshop.

2.) Put the wood in a vice. 

3.) Drill a 2cm hole in the wood about 9cm away from one end in the middle of the plank of wood. 

4.) Get some tape and put it around the opposite end of the wood to where you drilled the hole 3cm.

5.) Get a small screw about this size |--------| (not to scale, dependent on your monitor) and screw it in the end were the tape is making sure its on top. 

6.) Sand it or leave it as it is. If your child like playing cowboys or armies, this would be a great birthday present or Christmas present

 

Create Ping Pong Ball Cannon

Are you tired of playing dull games of ping-pong? Bored of hitting small plastic balls with a frail paddle? Why not launch ping-pong balls out of a make-shift cannon using everyday materials like hair spray and a paper towel core?

Things You'll Need

• Paper Towel Roll
• Duct Tape
• Sharp Pair of Scissors or Knife
• Grill Lighter
• Hair Spray
• Ping-Pong Ball

STEPS

1.) Seal end of the cardboard paper towel core with duct tape.

 

 2.) Poke a small hole in the center of duct tape using knife or scissors.

 

 3.) Slide the grill lighter through the hole in the duct tape.

4.) Slide the lighter back out a little so the duct tape forms a good seal around the lighter.

 5.) Spray the hair spray into the tube for two full seconds.

• Try not to soak the cardboard.
• The gas inside the tube will be ignited later.

 

 6.) Quickly drop the ping-pong ball into the tube. The ball should just fit in the tube.

 

 7.) Hold down the safety of the grill lighter, and pull the trigger to fire off the ball.

• It may take a few clicks of the lighter for the gas to ignite.
• This is until there is not enough free oxygen in the tube to fuel the flame.

 

 8.) Once the flame sparks, the ball will rocket out of the tube.

 

Tips

• If the ping-pong ball is much smaller than the width of the tube, it won’t sit snug inside and gas won’t be able to build up to launch the ball. If this is the case try using a smaller tube or a larger ball. A good seal is key in making the cannon fire properly.
• These instructions were inspired from Maxim Online. Visit their website at www.maximonline.com and search for “How to: Make a Ping-Pong Ball cannon” for images of the process.

WARNINGS

• Aerosols, such as hair spray, are highly flammable and extreme caution is recommended when operating the ping-pong ball cannon, or any other device using aerosols and a flame.
• When spraying aerosols and handling a flame; always operate outdoors and away from anything flammable.
• Do not inhale aerosols.
• When managing a projectile, never point towards anyone or any animals.
• Children, DO NOT attempt without adult supervision.

Simple Shooting hornet

Hornets (or wasps) are folded up pieces of paper that you shoot from rubber bands. If you want to get good aim fast, this will help.
As well as hornets, these projectiles are called many other things.
To save you some time, here are some of the other names they are called: stingers, tacos, missiles, darts, arrows, bees, rounds, tweeties, and shiners (if they are metal).

Things You'll Need

• lots of paper
• a rubber band
• tape
• Permanent Pen or Marker

STEP

1. Get lots of regular pieces of printer paper and cut them into strips about 1 inch wide.

2.  Fold them in half long ways 2 times. Then fold it short ways once.Then long ways 2 more times.

3.  Get a rubber band and stretch them between your index (pointer) finger and thumb.

 



4. Load them on the half of rubber band closest to your target.

5.  Stack 5 pieces of paper so they lay on top of each other.

 6. Fold them in half twice so the make a square, and draw a bulls eye on the front.

7.  Tape it to a vertical surface, but not a wall because it can leave a mark if you pull it back far enough and miss.

 8. Try shooting the target until you get good at it

WARNINGS

• Sometimes they really hurt.
• Never shoot at the face.
• DO NOT shoot hornets in school. You can be suspended or expelled.
• '''DO NOT stick nails or staples in the hornet. you could really hurt someone.