Aimless Tangents

My oldest nephew’s 7th birthday party was last weekend. I needed a present, fast. And cheap.

I turned to Google and asked for ideas. Most of them were not suitable for J (not something he would be interested in) or were not something I was comfortable making and giving. I might have wanted cheap but I didn’t want to give him something just to give him something.

Finally I stumbled on plans for making a marshmallow gun out of PVC. These instructions, in fact. The next morning I went to Lowe’s and picked up the shortest length of PVC pipe I could get, spent 5 to 10 minutes looking through all the fittings to find what I needed. If there is organization with the fittings, I couldn’t figure it out but eventually found everything I needed. Less than $3 later I had all the parts for the marshmallow gun. A trip to Target later I also had all the ammo a boy could need in the form of a bag of mini-marshmallows.

I cut the PVC per the directions on the link and then dryfitted it together to make sure everything fit right and worked. The cat got marshmallows shot near her for her to chase. The dog got shot with marshmallows, he ate them. Hubs got shot with marshmallows, he vowed revenge.

Once I was sure everything worked I painted all the pieces a matte black and then reassembled.

I grabbed a zip baggy and put a few handfuls of marshmallows inside then made a tube out of dessert camo patterned paper. It got labeled “Ammo” in shiny silver pen.

The party was held in a park that is 2 houses down from ours. So we walked down with the dog. He started to overheat so we took him into the fountain.

I think he was one of the coolest ones there that day. The heat index was well over 100 degrees.

As for the marshmallow gun, success! J loved it! Two of the other little boys that were there declared that they want marshmallow guns too. J shot through all of his ammo during the party.

You can just see E’s feet to the left, he is pouting cause he wanted to play with the marshmallow gun so bad and was annoyed that J wouldn’t share. J and E are brothers.

Linking up to several parties listed up top.

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