I’ve been fascinated by catapults ever since I was a little kid.  Word must have gotten out because I received a trebuchet kit as a Christmas (2006) gift.  I built the kit with my seven year old son between Christmas and New Years.

I put together a little video to show you my trebuchet (see below).  That’s me (the adult) in the video.

This device is actually a “floating arm trebuchet” and it can launch a golf ball over 100 yards with 15 pounds of counter weight.  How cool is that?!

And there MUST be a way to turn this into a teambuilding game.  Any ideas?

Oh, and if you’re wondering, my trebuchet kit came from the folks at rlt.com.  The kit was easy and fun to make.