I sat and watched CBeebies with the kids for an hour or so this afternoon and we watched a show that looks like the modern day version of ‘Why Don’t You’. Can you remember watching that when you were little? I used to love it every school holidays – there were loads of ideas on things to make or do.
Anyway, we saw someone making a homemade boomerang with some card and three lolly pop sticks. They made it look so easy that we decided to try it:
You need three pieces of card about 8cm x 4.5cm, we cut ours from an empty cereal box and we decorated them with felt tip pens to make our boomerang look nice….
Then you need to stick a lolly stick to the back of each piece of card.
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Then arrange the sticks in a triangular shap and blu-tac or sellotape them together and voila – a home made boomerang.
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I have found the website with the instructions on how to make this here. Its much more detailed than mine and even has the technical bit to explain how this works and why! Unfortunately, I can’t tell you if it worked as when Mr Frugal was teaching the kids how to throw it, he was a bit too enthusiastic and threw it into next door’s garden. I daren’t go round and ask for my homemade boomerang back so I think we will just have to make another one when we have eaten three more ice lollys…
