After lots of talking, planning, procrastinating (you know who you are!) , building, a rain delay, the much anticipated catapult night arrived. We put out a call for our homeschool group to meet us at a local park with homemade catapults for an evening of shooting peanuts and sharing dessert. About 10 families came with all different types of amazing catapults. They creatively made them using lego, tinkertoys, spools of thread, there was a vegetable shooting trebuchet, a few who needed to be transported on the roof of vans! A friend brought her families stomp rocket that kids and dads lined up to give a try. There was a grand firing of all the weapons, lots of running around after a helping of cookies and the parents even got to chat!
It was an event that really brought together the whole family. Dad's; who did much of the construction compared notes and shared suggestions for tweaking the construction for fine tuning. It's a personal goal to try and create similar opportunities for whole families to gather who share homeschooling as a lifestyle. It was lots of fun, and no one lost an eye!
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