On Christmas Eve, my mother surprised the children with marshmallow shooters – aka marshmallow guns. Bowls of mini-marshmallows in hand, the cousins ran outside and began the longest and funniest marshmallow war I’ve ever seen!

Marshmallow guns are easy to make, with only one trip required to the hardware store. Simply go to the PVC pipe area and ask the staff for ½ inch PVC to be cut in the following sizes:

One 7” piece
Six 4” pieces

Then grab 2 caps, two L joints and two T joints. The staff can point these out to you. Finally, follow the picture to construct your own marshmallow gun! Of course, it is best to create two or more for some amazing marshmallow battles.

Our kids shot mini-marshmallows in two ways. First, they placed a marshmallow in the blow hole, which worked great. Then some put the marshmallow in the barrel, which also worked well and created fewer spitty wads of marshmallow. Yes, you will indeed have to pick a few gunky marshmallows out of the pipes – but this is par for the course!

Once the children had played for about 30 minutes, they began to take the PVC pieces apart and create even cooler designs for excellent marshmallow shooting fun. Try it, you will have a blast!!!