This non-traditional craft box consists of plastic spoons, rubber bands, construction paper, toilet paper tubes, plastic straws, duct tape, ball point pen tubes and bulldog clips.
The final product is a mini weapon of mass destruction — this primitive contraption can propel spit balls farther than your traditional straw. The inspiration came from this book, Mini Weapons of Mass Destruction: Build Implements of Spitball Warfare
Please don’t miss the value of this book. I have a house full of boys, ages 15, 12, 9 and 7 — this book entertained each one of them… for hours.
One weapon, which, I’m sorry, was not available for a photography because it was soon destroyed, was so simple in design — simply a toilet paper tube, covered with a balloon that could propel a penny so hard it left a “dent in the wood of our fence.” (The boys reported.) Just ask me how long it took for someone to get hit in the ear with a copper penny?
Just to make peace among them, I think I’ll have to buy this book, The Book of Totally Irresponsible Science: 64 Daring Experiments for Young Scientists