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Submarine Project

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What you need

  • Yellow conductive dough
  • Blue conductive dough
  • Orange conductive dough
  • Fan motor
  • Buzzer
  • Battery holder with 4 AA batteries

Steps

  1. Yellow dough submarine body next to the fan motor and buzzer

    Roll out a large piece of yellow dough and make a hollow area at the back.

  2. Yellow submarine with the buzzer on top and the fan motor at the back

    Place the fan motor in the hollow area and the buzzer on top of the submarine body.

  3. Submarine with three blue dough portholes

    To make porthole windows, roll out and flatten three small balls of blue dough. Place them on the side of the submarine.

  4. Submarine with an orange dough periscope

    Roll a small tube for the periscope and place it in front of the buzzer.

  5. Fan motor and buzzer wires connected to an orange ball and a blue ball

    Roll a ball of orange dough and a ball of blue dough to complete the circuit. Push the black wires from the fan motor and the buzzer into the blue ball and their red wires into the orange ball.

  6. Submarine with its fan and buzzer wired to the battery holder

    Last, attach the battery holder. Push the red wire into the orange ball and the black wire into the blue ball. Turn on the battery holder to spin the fan and sound the buzzer.

Your finished submarine