The highest and best use of rubber bands was to build strike-anywhere match pistols: You take a spring-type wooden clothespin apart, turn the two wood pieces back to back and rubber-band them together on the pointed end. Now put the spring with the coil part up and the two ends under the top piece of wood. Cock it by using a third wood pin piece to push one spring end back (you may have to carve a bit so it will stay cocked). Insert a kitchen strike-anywhere match, into the throat, bulb end inward. Now, when you push the coil part of the spring until the rear end springs forward, lighting the match as it is flung from the pistol. It travels several feet.
The highest and best use of rubber bands was to build strike-anywhere match pistols: You take a spring-type wooden clothespin apart, turn the two wood pieces back to back and rubber-band them together on the pointed end. Now put the spring with the coil part up and the two ends under the top piece of wood. Cock it by using a third wood pin piece to push one spring end back (you may have to carve a bit so it will stay cocked). Insert a kitchen strike-anywhere match, into the throat, bulb end inward. Now, when you push the coil part of the spring until the rear end springs forward, lighting the match as it is flung from the pistol. It travels several feet.
Do not do this inside, or on dry grass !!