How To Make Homemade Bow for Archery – It’s Easy!

Make a Homemade Bow for Archery in Your Homeschool

Turn curiosity into action with this DIY archery bow project! Perfect for homeschool STEM lessons, it’s a hands-on way to inspire middle and high school students with engineering and a dash of adventure.

If you’re on the lookout for a homeschool STEM activity for high school and middle school students, you have come to the right place. Check out these instructions on how to make a homemade bow for archery.

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Nicole (our oldest girl) has recently gotten into archery. Her long-term goal is to get into mounted archery. Yes, she wants to shoot arrows from the back of a horse.

Obviously, this is going to be a long-term project, with a lot of work involved.

The first step is for her to get good at shooting with a bow and arrow. So we have added archery practice to Nicole’s schooling.

Unfortunately, we could not find a bow that would work for her in the stores for less than a FREAKISH amount of money. (We’re not rich yet, folks!) So Ben did some searching and he found a YouTube tutorial for making a child’s bow from a piece of PVC pipe.

I was skeptical but Ben was excited. So I set them free.

And this is what they came up with.

Isn’t that impressive? I must say I was shocked at what they came up with. When they said they were making a bow out of PVC pipe, I expected a cheap piece of garbage. Seriously.

I can admit when I’m wrong!

So anyways, this is Nicole’s current STEAM project.

Child-Sized DIY Bow From PVC Pipe Tutorial

Making a homemade archery bow is a great STEM project for kids.

Mapping out the project, measuring and shaping the parts, and putting everything together is a fun way for kids to learn STEM.

Add the art project that goes along with a sport such as archery and you’ve got the perfect DIY STEAM activity.

We did not make our own instructional video for this project. But I am embedding the videos that we did follow. Thanks to Backyard Bower (found on YouTube) for these simple tutorial videos. Go give him a subscribe if you find these useful. Use these videos in your lesson plans for some very happy kids.  Enjoy!

And the second video.

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