Blow Darts

Using one straw for the blower, and a thinner straw for the darts, you can make these blow darts and challenge your friends and family!

  1. Ages: 3 - 11

  2. <30 minutes

  3. A little messy

  4. Grownup needed

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Materials you'll need

Step-by-step tutorial

  • Step 1

    Size doesn't matter, as long as one straw fits inside the other.

    Photo reference of how to complete step 1

  • Step 2

    Maddie cut the smaller straw into four pieces.

    Photo reference of how to complete step 2

  • Step 3

    Then she took a chunk of clay, and softened and flattened it to a thickness of a half-inch or so.

    Photo reference of how to complete step 3

  • Step 4

    She poked the cut straws into the clay.

    Photo reference of how to complete step 4

  • Step 5

    That's all there is to it! Now.... One.

    Photo reference of how to complete step 5

  • Step 6

    Two....

    Photo reference of how to complete step 6

  • Step 7

    Three!!

    Photo reference of how to complete step 7

  • Final result!

    Try cutting them different lengths, and with different amounts of clay in them! Want to make a target? What happens if you put in several at a time?!?

    Photo reference of how to complete step 8

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