DIY: Peep Catapult

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I saw these catapults launching everything from peeps to jelly beans to candy corn or even ping pong balls!  They looked like a lot of fun—and not just for the young ones!  This Easter, when my daughter and her family visits, we’re going to have a contest.  First, these instructions on building the catapult will come in an envelope with all the necessary building materials on the table.  Contestants will have to construct their catapult, head to the playing field—the hallway—and try to launch their peeps into the Easter basket at the end of the hallway.  (Each contestant will have different color peeps for ease of scoring.)

You might suspect that my daughter’s family consists of young children—but you would be wrong!  The family of 3, daughter, son-in-law, and teenage granddaughter are very competitive!  They have a family game night every week and this small competition will be perfect.  The prize? A coveted, LARGE bag of Ghiradelli Salted Caramels.

Craft Stick Catapult

Craft Sticks  (7 for each catapult)

Plastic Spoons  (strong spoons work best)

Small Rubber Bands

How to build a craft stick catapult:

Stack 5 craft sticks on top of each other and secure both ends with a rubber band.  This will be your crossbar.

Next, stack 2 craft sticks on top of each other and secure one end with a rubber band.

Carefully open up the 2 craft sticks and slide your stack of 5 in between them.

Then lay a plastic spoon on top of the top craft stick and secure both ends of the spoon to the craft stick.

Finally, criss-cross one more rubber band around the area where the craft sticks intersect, holding it all in place.

This version does not use a spoon at all:

This version uses a plastic cap:

And there are a lot of more difficult designs as well, like this one:

It should be a fun time, although sacrificing my peeps will be difficult…LOL

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13 thoughts on “DIY: Peep Catapult”

  1. Good morning, Pat!

    What fun! You always come up with the coolest games to play for family gatherings. 

    Not being athletic, I would love playing this. I’m not really good at games. Only games I’m even moderately good at are Checkers and Scrabble. Our youngest daughter is a Banana-grams genius savant – totally unbeatable! Sally’s Dad has masters points in Bridge. Sally was not into games so much, but she was so good at spelling, she could write the books of the Old Testament in the first grade and even spell mononucleosis. We all loved playing Racko together when they were kids – until we played it so much we got sick of it.

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    1. Morning GA!
      trying to let everyone sleep a little later this morning…LOL…hard to do!
      I never played bridge before…we played pinochele (?) with my parents when we were younger.
      My daughter and her family have a game night every week.

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  2. Hope you are enjoying your family, Pat. We didn’t play many games where the adults and kids played together. At home, the 3 of us would sometimes play Sorry or Monopoly or some card games like Rummy and Go Fish. The adults played Pitch or Hearts and my a-Mom played Bridge with a group of ladies. Of course, Piper and I played all kinds of games together at one time (I still have one big bin full of games) and HB and I played a lot of games when it was just the two of us. But never games like this using common, everyday household items.

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    1. Morning Filly!
      we played games with the kids all the time…never heard of Pitch???

      we still have games and puzzles here too. plus hubby’s old game of Life he had as a kid. 

      and parcheesi too

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      1. Oh, yeah, we had Parcheesi, too, and checkers, of course. Pitch is a card game – it’s been so many years now since I played it, IDR a lot about it any more – since the late ’80’s. I’m wondering if it’s a regional thing around here since no-one I ever met back East had ever heard of it, either.

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