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How to Make a Toy Sling Shot

While some parents shy away from letting their kids own or play with a slingshot, using a slingshot could teach kids valuable lessons in self-control and responsibility. If you let your child play with a slingshot, have her promise to never point the slingshot at people or animals. Instead, she can use it to practice her aim, shooting at tin cans or trees. Making her own slingshot can provide a lesson on how natural materials often provide the best toys.

Things You'll Need

Stiff, solid forked stick
6 rubber bands
Leather strip, 4 inches by 1 inch
Pocket knife or blade

Instructions

- 1
  Search the forest for a sturdy, forked stick. Set it aside when you find it.
- 2
  Loop three rubber bands together so that you have a chain of rubber bands. Repeat with your three remaining rubber bands. You should have two strips made up of three bands.
- 3
  Slit a small incision 1/4-inch in on the right and the left end of the leather strip. Loop the last rubber band of each strip of rubber bands through one slit.
- 4
  Loop the right end of your strip of rubber bands around the right prong of the fork. Loop the left end of the strip of rubber bands around the left prong of the fork. Your sling shot is ready for play.

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