My mantra is “Don’t buy it Make it.” I’m not cheap, I could spend time making fun with my kid, or, I could spend time at work making money and then time at the store for a toy that will be loved no more than anything we make together. It can be a real challenge to find the supplies on hand to accomplish your task unless you are “handy” or a “collector” etc. Imagination will always bridge the gap where supplies are lacking. Supplies and tools will never bridge the gap where imagination is lacking. The project in this article worked out for me at the time. I had everything on hand and was willing to use it. It could be an expensive project otherwise, but substitutions can always be made. This is only one possible iteration. Frankly, the true subject of this article is doing whatever you want with whatever you’ve got.
So my son and I were are at Target, and my son sees the Spiderman web blaster wrist attachment that shoots aerosol foam party string. He definitely wants it. Frankly, when I was about his age Spiderman was on TV too, and there was some variation of the same toy. I wanted it. But, it was a little too big for his 4.5 yrs old hand, and it requires refills. So I nixed it. He was not happy, but I promised we would build a better one.
So my son and I were are at Target, and my son sees the Spiderman web blaster wrist attachment that shoots aerosol foam party string. He definitely wants it. Frankly, when I was about his age Spiderman was on TV too, and there was some variation of the same toy. I wanted it. But, it was a little too big for his 4.5 yrs old hand, and it requires refills. So I nixed it. He was not happy, but I promised we would build a better one.
As I said, this was a dream of mine 30 years prior. I knew how bad he wanted the toy, and I knew that my version had better be good if it was going to satisfy. So here’s what we did, and what we used. We built an electric squirt gun that sprayed off his wrist, out of a 1.5-liter water bladder in a pack on his back.

Any piece of this could be reworked. The bladder could be a 7Up bottle in a backpack and the wrist brace a sweatband. You could mount a bladder on your hip or even simply add a pump and battery with an intermittent switch to a large water gun. Or, take a large pump water gun and make a pump only wrist blaster. Any set of project instructions can be used as a springboard for your imagination to satisfy your desire with the tools and supplies you have on hand.