Homemade crossbow made of household materials

Need something that will appeal to your or your child's creative side, get them off the computer or something interesting to do when your bored? Try building this crossbow, its built all out of household materials, it is easy to make and simple to do yourself. From a kids point of view it fun to play with, and feels good to build something that you can use and works. from a parent's view it teaches your child creativity, mechanics, elastic and potential energy and gives them the hands on experience that school doesn't teach

Materials:

-2 sheets of paper

-2 thin flexible Popsicle sticks

-Glue and tape

-an elastic band\

-a straw (bullet)

Start off by rolling 2 sheets of paper. one width wise. the other width wise but folded in half width wise as well. tape the rolls after they have been rolled cut the wrinkled edge off the short roll. The one with the crease.

tape and or glue the two rolls together

glue the popsicle sticks to top roll . far enough apart that a straw can it through

attach the elastic band to all 4 ends of the popsicle sticks

put glue in the end of a straw to give it wight.