Practicing their aim and going on an archery hike across grassy trails gets top score in my girls’ outdoors book. Fortunately, today’s children don’t have to kill anyone or anything to use their bows and arrows. Think of Robin Hood, Katniss Everdeen or William Tell – they’re all good role models kids can look up to. I mean, making your own bows and arrows at ages 7 and 9? That sounded pretty cool and Legolas the elf would have approved.īrave and Lord of the Rings aside, archery is as close as today’s children will ever get to an ancient hunting technique practiced outdoors and the good news is, there are many archer heroes they can relate to. When I told my girls I’d signed them up for a Brave junior ranger day in Scotland where they’d be making their own bows and arrows, they were over the moon. I also drew a line in each groove so it could be seen better.Thanks to Brave action girl Princess Merida, archery has taken our household by storm. I cut the arrows down to about 5" each and created a groove in the bottoms of each of them so they'd fit nicely on the string. I decorated the bows with simple designs drawn on with markers. Here is the link for the Tiny Bow Instructions. * This spool of Clear nylon fishing line (found at any craft store in the jewelry section or sports stop in the fishing/hunting goods, or you can buy on Amazon) * I bought these 6" wooden Q-tips (found in drug stores or, like me, purchased off of Amazon) * Found theses Jumbo Popsicle Sticks (craft store, drug store, or Amazon) Instead of making each kid a bow out of PVC pipe like this (that was WAY too ambitious for me, but looks super-cute), I decided to go smaller and found tiny bow instructions, using popsicle sticks (I bought the jumbo-sized ones since they seem a little sturdier), fishing line, a little hot glue and long q-tips for the arrows. When you think about Merida, you think about her bow and arrows.
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