Catapults!

We've had a productive day - before getting on to play dough we made a catapult! I've had enough of magazines with rubbish plastic toys so bought the boys a National Geo Junior magazine to try. It is a bit beyond them but W is enjoying carrying it around and it includes instructions for building a catapult, so we gave that a go. It turns out that 5 and 3 is too young to twist rubber bands around sticks so I ended up doing all the building! They then spent a while pinging things across the table with it and exploring what went the furthest (googly eyes did quite well!).