Have a bunch of everyday items around? Have a little time on your hands? Then why don’t you make a ping pong ball shooter? It’s easy to make, safe, but still fun to shoot.

Step 1: Materials

1. About a square foot of cardboard.

2. A decent amount of hot glue.

3. One new pencil.

4. One ping pong ball.

5. 2 fairly large rubber bands

Step 2:

Cut two 3.5 x 7.75 pieces of cardboard and hot glue them together

Step 3:

Cut two 3.5 inch parts of pencils. (Don’t use the eraser or the tip.)

Step 4:

Poke two holes 1.5 inches down and 0.5 inches off each side of the cardboard. The pencils will go here.

Step 5:

Put the pencils through the holes so they are barely sticking out the bottom.

Step 6:

Make two square cardboard pieces 1 ½ inches in side length

Step 7:

Make lines ¼ inch from the end and 1 ⅛ inch on each side from the end of the cardboard. There should be 1 ¼ inches between them. Glue the cardboard pieces you just made there at a slight angle towards the edges.

Step 8:

Hot glue two circles around the pencils around ¾ inches up the base.

Step 9:

Cut four 1 x 1 inch squares and glue them on top of each other. Then cut two 1 x 3 inch and glue them on top of each other. Then take the stacked 1 x 1s and glue them on top of the stacked 1 x 3s.

Step 10:

Glue two rubber bands to the object you made earlier about ½ inch from each end. (Seen in previous picture.)

Step 11:

Attach the rubber bands to the pencils under the hot glue ring and put the object behind the two pieces of cardboard so that the rubber bands are slightly taunt.