Our Christmas/marshmallow experiment results

[Claudia1]

Santa had a wicked sense of humor this year and delivered a complete set of marshmallow shooters on Christmas morning. DH got an arrow, DGD got a pink shooter gun, and the rest of the family received marshmallow slingshots.

Santa's elves provided each family member with their own color of marshmallows (using colored & white marshmallows) that had been dried just a little over-night to prevent gooey jams.


Here are the results:

The arrow is slow loading but, once loaded, is most powerful. It apparently has more power delivered to the shot than the gun and the aim is not difficult.

The is slightly easier to load (quicker to snap into place than the arrow) but the barrel was a little restrictive and DGD had more jams then the arrow. (Not gooey jams but just too big of ammo for the gun.)

The slingshots were fast loading, easy to aim, and provided instant satisfaction, especially while the arrow & guns were loading.

The clear winners, however, were DGS's (ages 1 & 2) who loved all of the sugar pellets.

I'm guessing I will be finding dried marshmallows around the house for several weeks!

 

[lovetoscrap]

I am imagining all those different colors flying around and just

 

[We_Love_Disney]

I am imagining all those different colors flying around and just

Agreed. I need pictures!

 

[indimom]

Sounds like an absolute BLAST!

 

[Claudia1]

Sorry, no pics. Everybody was busy and laughing too hard anyway!

 

[laughinplace199]

We got marshmallow shooter guns too! DH got the "executive" model, mine has peace signs all over it, DD11 got pink, and both DS9 & DS4 got blue. We haven't used them yet. I think today is the day...

 

[tarheel618]

where did you get them? I would love to put them under the tree next year or maybe the easter bunny could bring them

 

[mjkacmom]

I'd be worries about the hidden marshmallows - we stick to our nerf gun arsenal (which it extensive).

 

[lovesmurfs]

Too funny. DS16 and DD11 bought each other these massive Nerf guns this year (each takes 6 D-cell batteries!), and then they pooled their gift cards from their uncle to buy DH a gun (DH's irked that it's got manual pump action to their automatics).

We need a bigger house.

 

[Polyluvr]

Sounds like great fun

 

[Claudia1]

Drugstore.com and amazon.com have a wide variety of marshmallow shooters. Don't use fresh/soft marshmallows. They will get gooey in the chamber and sticky. Get cheap ones and let them sit out in the open air for a few hours to get a little firmer. Not crunchy, though.

Great fun!

 

[PollyannaMom]

DS got one of those as well, and the book said you could use small craft pom-poms instead of marshmallows when playing inside. He's been having a blast!