Pop-Up Skeleton Catapult

I am going to show you how to make a bungee cord powered catapult that will fling a skeleton mask out of a hiding place to scare your trick or treaters.

Here's what you're going to need:
-Wood Scraps (I used less than 3 feet of wood that were scraps from other projects)
-PVC Pipe
-Wooden Dowel that fits into the PVC
-Bungee Cord
-Garbage Can
-Halloween Mask (try one that's light weight)
-assorted screws and a drill.

Heres the environment that this was used in to get you familiar with what I was making here. I would have two witches standing over a fogging cauldron (garbage can). Trick or treaters would be brought up to the scene by a guide. The witches would start chanting, and at the right moment, the guide would set the catapult off, sending the skeleton mask flying out of the cauldron towards the trick or treaters...

Below, there is a sequence of pictures of the mask popping out of the cauldron.

It scared several people this past Halloween...

Step 1: Make the base of the catapult...

The first step of making a pop up skeleton catapult is to make the base for the catapult. I made this out of scraps of wood. I used two pieces total, each about a foot long. Size really doesn't matter too much, but the wood scraps should be strong enough to hold some pressure.

Here I just took a the smaller piece of wood (1x2") and screwed it into the larger piece of wood. I used two screws on each end of the wood strips. Be sure to drill pilot holes so the wood doesn't split.

Comments

[Jakeg]

i always have a sweet halloween display but my house is on top of a hill so all the lazy obese kids and parents dont feel like coming to it. Any tips to make them come?

[starbucks starwars and lotrs oh my]

im am gonna have some fun with this next holloween

[Spl1nt3rC3ll]

Cool, your house must have been popular and quite the attraction due to the decorations. What's that eyeball in the background of your garage?

[woofboy111]

The eyeball would be my Animatronic Eyeball Monster. And, yes, my house was the popular house in the neighborhood. It seemed I was one of the few houses that actually was giving out candy for Halloween...

[X_D_3_M_1]

cool