How to make a slingshot (several ways)

To each of us at least once, yes, one has to remain alone with the boy. And it's all right, if there is a computer next door, a TV set or a box with toys, at the worst. But what should I do if nothing is available? Meanwhile, the kid curls his lips and starts whining that he is bored, that my mother told him to entertain and teach him something good ...

But nothing good, as luck would have it, does not enter my head, except for childhood memories that suggest how to make a slingshot. Wow, pretty business! That's for sure, my mother is not very happy after returning, seeing our padded eyes and chopped dishes around.

And yet ... Why not? Slingshot with their own hands - this is already a useful lesson, developing skills of manual labor, modeling and assiduity. A shoot at each other or in the dishes is not necessary. We will make a target from a sheet of paper and hang it in the corridor. Shoot will be pieces of plasticine, so that they stick to the target, and then count the glasses. Your color, for example, will be green, and let the guy roll himself a "pulka" of red.

It remains only to remember how to make a slingshot. In fact, there are many ways to make this ancient weapon. After all, the first people invented a slingshot for hunting wild animals. Only instead of rubber they used the dried intestines of the cut animals.

At once the first, the fastest and simplest method was remembered. How to make a slingshot using only one rubber band? This method is extremely convenient for hooligan tricks during the lessons. Why - will be told below.

Aviation rubber is the best choice, or if there is not one, then the medical gum can also be used (these are the rings that some ladies twist hair, and bank workers pull up bundles of money.) They are called medical because they were first wound on the neck of vials with potions. ). The ring before work should be cut so that the rubber band looks like an ordinary piece.

At the ends of her make eyelets, which they put on the index and middle finger of the left hand, and the right put a key in the middle of the rubber band, tighten, aim and shoot.

This is provided that the shot is performed by the right-hander. For left-handers, this process is as it were "in mirror reflection": the rubber band is put on the right hand, and you need to shoot, respectively, the left one.

Now a little digression about why this method in school was successful with bullies. For example, during the lesson a restless boy, and sometimes a girl who was terribly bored with the antics of a particularly "attentive" classmate, wears this gum on the arm and slowly, while the teacher turns to the board, shoots the key "on purpose." The "shocked goal" naturally screams, the teacher turns around and threatensly screams: "Who fired?"

In response, replicas - quotes from "Vasily Turkin": "Who fired? - Call from the headquarters. "Who fired?" Where then? "Then the irate teacher demands everyone to put their hands on desks, show pockets, portfolios and so on.

And at this time, an imperceptible movement is easy to roll off the fingers of an elastic band. Twisted in a tiny lump, it will safely get lost somewhere on the floor, and the hooligan trick will go unpunished.

Of course, this is probably not a slingshot, and so - one pampering. A real slingshot should be made of a wooden spear - such a bifurcated twig. At the upper ends of a little bit it is necessary to cut the hollows so that the elastic does not jump off during the shots.

The best homemade slingshot is the one with the rubber band in the middle much wider than at the ends. Then you can shoot not only with paper or wire keys, but even with something bigger.

Therefore, such a slingshot is best not to do with the baby. And in the apartment there can be no branch-rogatina, no hard wire, which you can replace it, no good, strong and elastic rubber.

So, we need to think again how to make a slingshot from what is. And we have an empty plastic bottle and a fingertip medical, found in the medicine cabinet. We will have enough of this!

Cut off the neck of the bottle so that a small funnel is obtained. Fingertip put on the neck. To fix, you can use the already described by us medical gum. It is tightly wrapped around the neck - the slingshot is ready!

Yeah, a new problem: in the medicine cabinet was not necessary to us gum. Then you can fix the fingertips with usual threads, sewing or woolen. Just need to fold the threads in several layers, having achieved the necessary strength, and wet. Wet coil several turns coil the neck of the slingshot and tie a strong knot. When drying, the yarn will shrink and the fastener will become stronger.

And now we proceed to the contest-game, who is more accurate. You can shoot with dry peas, berries of mountain ash or, as already mentioned, plasticine balls. "Bullet" is placed inside the fingertip, he pulls the other hand to himself, and then the "bullet" is released and hits the target! Or a little lower. But this is not so important.

The main thing is that we took the free time of the baby. And now we will develop a sharp eye and a firm hand. Entertaining, useful and relatively safe!