Home Made Trebuchet Games

We built this Trebuchet from scrap pieces of wood from the skip. We were lucky because our next door neighbour was building an extension at that time. We collected all the off cuts of wood, skirting boards and bricks that they throw away.  We then cut them to size and screwed them together. The sling for the golf ball was make out of a piece of leather cut from an old handbag tie with two pieces of strings. The weight is made of pieces of recycle broken bricks.

The finished project was amazing. The whole family had lots of fun building and playing with it. We take turn to see who can fire most number of golf balls into the bucket.

In the Summer the children take the Trebuchet to our local park and have competitions. We certainly had lots of fun using recycled scraps pieces of wood and bricks to build this toy.

 The frame is made out of scrap pieces of wood that we can find from the skip. We cut them to size and screwed together.

 The sling is a piece of leather cut out from my old handbag with two pieces of strings tie on to it.

 The wooden box for the weight is made of 4 pieces of planks screwed together.

 The runway for the golf ball we made it with some skirting boards. 

 We filled the box with pieces of broken bricks.