Craft Stick Motorized Car
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