Simple Jumping Toy

Step 5

Finished! Now have fun launching them. To launch, put the skewer on the ground and pull down the straw. When you let go, the fun jumper should go flying into the air. You can even tape a paper airplane to it or you can launch it from your hand! You can modify it to jump higher also. The length of the skewer, length of the straw, and tightness of the rubberband effect how high it jumps. Just be careful and don't launch it towards anyones eyes.

Comments

[Delo97]

I made one some time ago... I used a empty pen and a "fatty" rubberband....it flew over a 3-floor building... I think it may have killed someone if I wasn't so lucky that it simply broken into concrete...

[The Y]

omg so that was you!!!
that did realy hurt....

[Delo97]

Hhhhmmmm,
1.That would have killed you;
2.Where do you live?

[The Y]

holland :$

[eneergcam]

haha, thats intimidating..

[5533888]

That is so cool! Is this your first instructible?

[eneergcam]

yep!

[mr.noris]

the cheat!?!?!?!

[eneergcam]

Good eye chuck

[Saturn V]

This is really detailed and thourough for your first instructable. BTW, Great idea!!!

[eneergcam]

thank you! i guess its pretty cool since the supplies aren't hard to find (unlike every other instructable, haha)

[ryanninjasheep]

not all instructables have hard to find materials (just look at the paper airplanes!)

[nikeman76]

its wicked easy to make... very common household objects... fun... not a lot of time to make it!

[eneergcam]

i believe wicked is spelled with a y...."wycked" haha just kidding, but it is on Carl's car on ATHF! and i know, right?

[JMR96]

Hey, great idea. So right when i saw this i put it to the test. I got a BIC pen, took out the inc holder thing so it was just the tube instead of the straw, and then followed all the steps. I showed my dad this great idea and he told me to add wings to it. So i got two buissness cards, folded them to a triangular shape and then taped them on.

[eneergcam]

haha, thank you! and i never really though about doing that, cool, i never really did much with these, im glad you are though!

[muffinmann]

 wow

[eneergcam]

 is this good or bad?

[muffinmann]

 great

[eneergcam]

 yay!

[wbrm77]

thats awesome :-D i started firing mine at a target

[danleano]

cool!