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Busy Holiday Season. Shipping Services Setting Holiday Cut Offs. Order your atlatl sets!

The shipping services (UPS/Fed Ex and USPS) are sending out their holiday advisories for receiving packages before December 25. The post office has set December 15 for its ground advantage and priority mail shipping. UPS and Fed Ex have similar advice.

The Thunderbird Atlatl shop elves are busily working to get orders out as quickly as possible. Give us a call at 607-659-3854 or 1-800-836-4520 if you have a special request or need.

Gift certificates are also available if you are unsure of what to get. We can email or snail mail gift certificates to your recipient(s)

Happy Holidays from the Thunderbird Atlatl staff!

Our into everything shop/family cat, Molly, says she will gladly help send out gift certificates!
And so it begins. Packages going out this holiday season 2023!

Leap into Spring! Build Your Own Atlatl & Darts!

It’s leap year and soon it will be spring! Take the extra day and the approach of spring to build your own atlatl and dart set. Thunderbird Atlatl has a variety of kits to choose from. In a few hours, you will have an atlatl and dart set made with your own hands. Check out our instructional videos on You Tube.

The photos from a workshop using Thunderbird Atlatl kits. The workshop took place at Mounds State Park in Anderson, Indiana. Interpretive Naturalist Kelley Morgan led the program. Thanks to Kelley for providing the photos.

Atlatl & Dart Kit Building- great winter time activity

Atlatl and dart building workshops are a great way to spend your winter hours! Thunderbird Atlatl offers several types of atlatl and dart kits in our online catalog.

With kits, you are able to save money and finish your own atlatl the way you want. You can put your own personal imprint or design on an atlatl you made. Fletching darts can be a little tricky but we offer videos on both finishing our atlatl kits and fletching

Kits can be purchased individually or if you have a group of five or more, we offer bulk rates for kits. Give us a call at 1-800-836-4520 or email us at contact@thunderbirdatlatl.com for more information.

In the pictures below, Interpretive Naturalist Kelley Morgan offers an atlatl & dart building workshop at Mounds State Park in Anderson, Indiana. Thank you Kelley for the pictures and for leading the workshops. More information about programs offered by the Indiana department of Natural Resources-Division of State Parks can be found on their webpage.

Make Your Own Atlatl and Darts with Thunderbird Kits

Making your own atlatls and darts from one of our kits is a great way to save money and have the satisfaction of finishing your very own atlatl. Thunderbird Atlatl kits have been featured in Make Magazine.

We have five different types of atlatl kits: Catatonk Atlatl kit, Nanticoke Atlatl kit, Kanakadea Atlatl kit, Catatonk Hunter kit and our Wyalusing Atlatl kit. All come with easy to understand instructions.

With our dart kits, you can make five, six or seven foot darts. Dart kits come with a shaft, sinew, feathers and a point.

Our Kanakdea Atlatl Kit with a dart kit as featured in Make Magazine
Our Kanakdea Atlatl Kit with a dart kit as featured in Make Magazine