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Craft Stick Motorized Car

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  Learn about electrical circuits with this simple  motorized car. Materials: • bottle caps or any other items that can be used as wheels • straw • paperclips • Hobby motor • 1 AA battery • Solid core wire (we like telephone wire) • craft stick • tape • a broccoli rubber band, or inner tube cut off • wooden dowel or bamboo skewer Tools: • scissors • wire strippers • hammer • nails • hot glue gun Make a hole in bottle cap by hammering a nail through the middle of the cap.  Push the motor’s axle through the hole.  It should be a tight fit.  If it is not a tight fit hot glue the cap in place. We found that a  3D nail makes the perfect size hole for the axle of the motor we use.      Use scissors to enlarge holes for rear wheels if using a dowel. If using bamboo skewers it is not necessary to enlarge the hole.  Cut dowel to preferred length.  Cut straw an inch smaller than dowel.  Insert do