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Home > Arts and Crafts Projects > Crafts with Boxes >How to Make Shoebox Fencing Aiming Practice Toy
You can improve your marksmanship practicing with this sword aiming toy. It will be important if you take up fencing in high school or college. But mostly this is meant to be purely fun. The way you play with it, is you hang the toy from a high place, such as a toy, and then you tap it to set it swinging. Then you try to thrust your toy sword thru the hole in the box. It is harder than it sounds and it takes a lot of coordination to get it just right. Learn how to make this Fencing Aiming toy. Have fun.
Shoe box
Scissors
Scotch tape
Strong cord
(1) Cut a hole, about two inches in diameter, approximately in the center of the shoe box cover.
(2) Cut a corresponding hole in the same place in the shoe box bottom.
(3) Fasten the cover to the bottom part of the box with Scotch tape. You should be able to see squarely through both holes.
(4) Make a small hole in the cover near the top, and a corresponding hole in approximately the same place, in the bottom of the box.
(5) Pull a piece of strong cord through the two holes to make the hanger.
(6) Hang the punching toy from the limb of a tree, or some other projection, and start it swinging back and forth. Using an umbrella, yardstick, cane, or toy nerf sword for a sword or "rapier," try to thrust your weapon through both holes of the swinging toy.