Kid-Friendly Bugs Bunny Carrot Shooter

Hey guys,

I'm Waamene, A 13 year old girl from Premier Charter Middle School. I recently decided to start doing some kid friendly projects because I noticed that most things included guns and violence equipment which is not the best influence to young kiddos, so I decided to go with a more steady option with a beloved character, Bugs Bunny! I had lots of fun making this and testing it out with my little brothers. So without further to do, let’s get started!

After many trial and errors, fails and attempts, I finally have found an easy way to make a shooter. Sometimes you have to focus on how you do things because I was focusing more on the visual representations and ended up with lots of scraps. so remember to "work smarter, not harder."

-1 roll of clear Duct Tape

-Two orange pencils

-One black marker

-A foam hair curler

-A Crayon

-One thick rubber band

-A hot glue gun

-A 12 inch x 12 inch piece cardboard

-1 printed out Bugs Bunny head facing left

-1 printed out Bugs Bunny head facing right

-Super glue

-An 8-inch skewer

-A ruler

-A 1.5 inch x .5 cm piece of flat wood (which can be obtained from a broken wood ruler)

-Orange thread

-Green thread

Cut out a 12 cm x 7 cm rectangle from the 12:12 inch cardboard piece. Outline a handle with a straight long snout. Design as you choose just make sure the snout is straight. Then cut it out and put it to the side. Note: Make sure to plug in your hot glue gun so it can heat up before you begin glueing!

From the large piece of cardboard (the starting 12 inch x 12 inch one) cut out two 12 cm x 5 rectangles. Make sure you cut it diagonally so the lines are across the cardboard like the one above. Crease the lines so it becomes bendy. Now roll these cardboard strips into two equal cylinders and hot glue them or/and tape the together.

After glueing/taping the cylinders together, glue them the snout of your shooter handle!

Next, get your 1.5 inch x 0.5 cm piece of wood ( I got mine from a broken wood ruler,) and drill a hole right through the center. You can do this by rotating your scissors multiple times until it goes right through the wood. Cut around a 3 cm from the top of you skewer. Then put it through the hole you made and hot glue it so it stays secure.

With the remaining skewer, cut it directly in half and hot glue each half skewer 1 cm away from the hole in the middle wood! Then super glue two small circles of cardboard to the top of the two half skewers. There might be a lot of measuring so just hang in there with me!

Now, insert the wood flinger piece into the two holes in the shooter and use your rubber band to loop over the skewer then to the end of the snout, as shown in the picture.

Next, cut off the top and bottom of one of your orange pencils and cut two 5 cm segments of the bottomless and topless pencil. Shave down the bottom of the two pencil pieces to make it more narrow and pointy. After this, wrap the orange thread around the narrow bottoms and super glue the thread to keep it from unraveling. Get the green thread and cut multiple pieces of it and super glue it to the top of the pencil pieces so it appears as a carrot, as shown above.

Next print out the two bugs bunny photos below or above that show bugs bunny facing left and right. After printed, cut out both photos and tape them on either sides of the shooter. Make sure the pictures are aligned if not trim the photos so it can or retake them and make sure that the mouth is at the end of the shooter barrels.

With the scraps of the Bugs Bunny head cutout, make a cover for the handle, glue it with super glue, color it in with pencil, and outline it using your black marker. Then cut the foam hair curler, vertically cut it across the middle, and then cut the length to around an inch. Glue the inch length hair curler piece to the end of the skewer flinger like in the photo above.

Now there you got it, a kid-friendly, Bugs Bunny carrot projector. Look at it go. Even in slow-mo it keeps its speed. I really enjoyed making this project. I hope I can share it with you guys too and save up for a 3D-printer so I can print a better and more cleaner version of this little shooter. Feel free to add your own little designs and alterations to it and feel free to ask me about questions on this!