CATAPULT WITH POPSICLE STICKS HOW TO

* Duration: Explore at your leisure, but guests spend ~60 minutes on average All content and photos are intellectual property of The Playful Parent.***ĭetails: Enjoy nine interactive Dr Seuss worlds… Swing among Truffula Trees from The Lorax, make your way through the Stars Upon Thars Sneetches Mirror Maze, stroll through towering clovers listening for a Who from Horton Hears a Who!, or join the Circus McGurkus!Know Before You Go! ***The Playful Parent is a non-profit that provides free resources that advocate learning through play and promote family bonding. Here’s a video that explains the concept in a fun way- video link. Enjoy tinkering with the design: Does the catapult launch better with more or less popsicle sticks in the middle? Does the catapult function more efficiently with or without the spoon? What happens if you press the catapult down lightly vs hard?.

Try catapulting other fun Easter themed things: jelly beans, peeps or chocolate eggs.Now for the fun part, place a plastic egg on the spoon and watch it sore. Next, secure a plastic spoon to the top of the catapult with rubber bands. Use two small rubber bands or one large one to secure all of the craft sticks together making an x shape. Gently slide the group of eight sticks in between the two sticks. Stack two popsicle sticks on top of each other and fascine them together with a rubber-band at one end. Stack 6-8 popsicle sticks (7 worked best for us) and secure them together by wrapping rubber bands together at each end. I hope your littles enjoy this activity that promotes learning through play. So I thought it would be fun to upcycle our plastic Easter eggs and revisit the idea of making catapults! Launching eggs is a great way to test out the physics of trajectory, force, momentum and inertia. This was well received and loved by all the children in attendance. A few years ago The Playful Parent hosted a STEAM event in which we made pom pom catapults.

CATAPULT WITH POPSICLE STICKS HOW TO

This weeks Playful Science series is a tutorial on how to make a Easter Egg Catapult.

Catapult with popsicle sticks