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How to Build Darts

Darts are often used in accuracy games. Perhaps their most popular use is on dart boards. Lawn darts and blowgun darts are also popular. While darts can be constructed out of regular household material quite easily, it is important to remember safety. Without properly observing your surroundings before throwing or shooting a dart, you could injure or kill someone. But darts can be fun, and that is what they are usually designed for, though other darts, such as poisonous ones, can be used for hunting.

Things You'll Need

Pencil eraser
Thread
Needle
Cardboard
Knife
Glue
Pencil
Small potatoes
Twine
Nails

Instructions

Blowgun Dart
- 1
  Thread a sewing needle. Leave 1 inch of thread exiting the needle's eye on each side.
- 2
  Tie a knot so the thread is secure to the needle. Repeat as many times as you can until you can't put any more thread through the hole, about 15 times.
- 3
  Take the eraser off the pencil. Put the needle through the top of the eraser until the end of the threads are just underneath the top of the eraser.
Dartboard Dart
- 4
  Cut the end off a pencil at the base of the eraser. Cut four notches 1/4 inch deep in the end of the pencil to form a cross. It should look like a Phillips-head screwdriver can fit into it.
- 5
  Cut four small diamond-shaped pieces that are 1 inch in diameter each. Apply glue to the inside of the four notches at the end of the pencil.
- 6
  Place a cardboard diamond into each notch. These are your guiding fins. Sharpen the end of the pencil.
Lawn Dart
- 7
  Tie at least five pieces of 6-inch-long twine around a penny-sized nail's base. There should be 10 pieces of twine hanging from the back of the nail.
- 8
  Drive the penny nail into the potato at its longest point so that 2 inches of the nail are poking from the other side.
- 9
  Ensure the twine is sticking out the opposite side.

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