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| Catapults |
What we used for each catapult:
- 6 pieces of rope
- 5 longish poles (1.5-2m would be ideal. One pole can be shorter - the cross piece down the bottom)
- 1 x 2m piece of elastic (we bought bungee stuff used to tie covers onto car trailers from a local car trailer store)
- Ammo! (we used newspapers - rolled up to make like a 'bat', gaffa tape around each end to hold them in place them folded them over the elastic, pulled back and fired) We got through quite a lot of newspaper!
These worked very well. Almost too well in fact, we had to stop after the first few throws and move them further away from each other as the scouts were managing to fling the newspapers so fast and far I thought there was a real danger of a scout getting hurt. Despite out best efforts we couldn't get water balloons to fire, but had great fun all the same.
Construction
We got each team to build an A Frame (so called cos it looks like a letter A) and use a square lashing at each join.We then got two people from each team to lift them into the air, and got other team members to lash on poles to act as the support poles at the back. We then tied these together at the back for stability.
Following experimenting, the elastic worked best about 1/3 from the top of the A piece, tied on each side.
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