Rubber Band Pencil Crossbow

Tie two pencils together at both ends with rubber bands.

Rubber band pencil crossbow. Wrap a rubber band around the pencils beneath the loading end of the tube. Tie a rubber band about an inch from the erasers and tie a second rubber band about an inch from the tips. You will need sticky tape cotton buds for ammo 4 pencils plastic drinking straw rubber bands some help from an adult. See more ideas about pencil crossbow crossbow stationary office supplies.

The loading end is the one where the tube doesn t line up with the end of the crossbow this adds elevation which will come in handy later. From the eraser 1 centimeter from the unsharpened end of the pencil and in the middle. Your 2 crossbow is now complete. Yesterday i made a really good crossbow it doesnt get very good distance but thats just because i messed up the rubber band and it is kinda loose but it has a trigger mechanism allowing for easy firing and i put in a crosshair xd.

Don t tape the rubber band to the body of the crossbow or you don t be able to draw it back. Rubber band 7. Tape 2 pencils together. Slide one wooden skewer used for cooking or a 3 16 dowel into the pen housing.

Gripping the wood arrow and the rubber bands pull back and aim your. Line them up so that the erasers are together. Use unsharpened unused pencils that are the exactly the same length. And tie the other two together as well but only at one end.

To make it take two pencils. Im going to post it on instructables soon when i have the time. The pencil crossbow another brilliant rubber band bow. Stretch your rubber band between the gap of your horizontal pair of rubber bands.

Wooden skew ammo 1 the 2 crossbow is a larger variant of the other bows found in this book.