another kids thing from the 80`s

[teash]

Don`t know if it was just a northern thing but I remember Iused to make a star shape throwing thingy made out of ice lolly sticks. You used to throw them and the broke on impact, (how the kids of today are so deprived with their mobile phones and PS2`s) anybody know of a site that shows how to make them, Cheers

[LeMarchand]

Us Southern Softies did it too! Can't find a site (or any lolly sticks to check this works) but I think this is what you did: you need 5 sticks, lay one stick as the horizontal base of something like an equilateral triangle with a centimetre(?) of overlap at the corners (this is very hard to describe in just words!). Place a second stick so that it overlaps the left-hand end of the base stick, and complete the "triangle" with a third stick overlapping the "free" end of Stick 2, and also overlapping the right hand end of Stick 1. Now place a horizontal fourth stick as the "crossbar" 1/2 way up the triangle, agin - leave a fair bit of overlap. This needs to be on top of both Stick 2 and 3. Finally, use a fifth stick to tension the whole thing. This goes vertically 1/2 way along Stick 1 - under Stick 1, over Stick 4 and under the apex of the triangle formed by Sticks 2 and 3. You should have something that looks vaguely like an arrow with a short shaft, with the head pointing upwards. You hold the "shaft" and throw it like a boomerang! (Just tried it with wooden kebab sticks and it works, but isn't as aerodynamic as flat lolly sticks).

[LeMarchand]

P.S. I think you could also make a "Star of David" thingie using a similar method.

[Ray the DJ]

You were lucky. Where I lived, no one could afford a lolly, so there were no sticks!

[woofgang]

is it the same thing as clog dancers do when they make that star out of their rappers?