 For today's activity you'll need a pair of pliers, needle nose works best, scissors, a paper clip, a straw, it could be a bendy straw or a straight straw, some clay or dough, a rubber band, tape, and a 3 by 5 note card. Hi everybody, I'm Ginny Payne and I'm with Russell County 4-H. And I'm Deborah Stewart from Lee County 4-H. I'm Trent Carboni with Talpus County 4-H, and today we're going to show you all how to build a miniature bow and arrow. Okay, after we have our supplies, we want to grab a large paper clip and bend it as straight as possible. Once we have it good and straight, we will give it an arch, sort of like a recurve bow, or give it the shape of the bow. Now you're going to take your needle nose pliers and bend the top to make a hook, bend it outward, do the same on the bottom. This hook is going to provide support for your rubber band. Make sure you bend it in pretty tight, but leave a small opening for your rubber band. Now we're going to take our rubber band, fasten it to the first hook, use our needle nose pliers to close that really tight so the rubber band will not slip out. Then you're going to take your rubber band and twist it to give it some extra resistance before you put it on your hook. You can make this as tight as you would like for it to be, just a couple of twists can do. Attach it to the bottom hook, then take your needle nose pliers again and make sure your rubber band is down in the bottom of the hook and pinch it tight. You're going to grab a piece of scotch tape, make it as small as possible. You can tear it in half if needed. You're going to attach it to the middle of your rubber band. This works as the knot to hold your arrow in place on the string. Wrap it as tightly as possible. To make your arrow, grab any straw. One I have is a bendy straw. Your arrow can be multiple lengths. Definitely cut off the bendy part of the straw and I think I want to make mine a little shorter. It's a little long for the arrow that I have. I'm going to cut mine. Then take a little piece of dough or clay and put it in the top end of your arrow. Now you want to take your scissors. Make a small slit at the very bottom of your arrow. Make sure to not make your slit too large, just a very small slit which is going to sit comfortably on your rubber band on the arrow. After you make your arrow, you may choose to add fletching. You can do this with using an index part and scissors and a small piece of scotch tape. Alright guys, so you know you can't shoot this at each other. So what you got to do is now you got to make a target. So you can go and if you've got a printer at home, you can print you off some targets and shoot at those. Or you can make one with a simple paper plate. Just flip that paper plate over, draw you a few circles on it and you're good to go. Our miniature bow and arrow is a great introduction to shooting sports. In Alabama 4-H we have nine different categories of shooting sports that you can get involved in. Contact your local county 4-H agent to see what programs are offered in your area.