This was not what we were expecting at all. This is a catapult really not the snowball blaster it looks like. You can't tell this until you open the pack. You make the snowballs with the mould on top, then take them out and manually insert one at a time into the slinger cup inside. Which you need a lot of strength to pull from the other end. My 11 year old only managed about 3 metres in distance, and my older son a bit further, but he said it was very hard to do. Poor value at £25.00 as well. Another one for the car boot sale.