A catapult for kids to make is what we are featuring today! What kid doesn’t want to launch something across the room? Build a catapult to develop this love even more.
Kids Activities Blog hopes your kids love this activity as much as our own do.
Before building our craft stick catapult, I showed my 3 year old how to turn a spoon into a catapult. Simply press on the spoon end and the other end lifts up. You can’t make an easier catapult than that.
Supplies needed:
I then showed him pictures of catapults from Google images. He wanted to build all of them, but he chose the craft stick catapult first. I couldn’t find the original source of the image. It looks like the original website no longer exists. So we just created our own version. Here’s how:
Now create a simple experiment using the catapult of your choice. Try one of these experiments.
Can you think of any other catapult experiments? Do you have a favorite catapult design?
What a fun way to launch something in the air! Kids can build a catapult AND learn about science at the same time. For more kids activities involving launching things, you might be interested in these ideas:
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