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Mouse & Cheese Project

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What you need

  • Yellow conductive dough
  • Blue conductive dough
  • Red conductive dough
  • Buzzer
  • Battery holder with 4 AA batteries

Steps

  1. Hand pressing holes into a yellow dough cheese wedge with a tool

    Make the cheese by shaping yellow dough into a triangle. Push holes into the cheese.

  2. Yellow dough cheese next to a blue dough mouse with two ears

    Use blue dough to make the mouse's body in a large teardrop shape, then make two ears. Press a line into the body and attach the ears as shown.

  3. Blue dough mouse with a red nose and tail, next to the yellow cheese

    Use red dough to roll out a nose and a tail for the mouse.

  4. Buzzer wired between a red dough ball and the side of the blue mouse

    Roll a ball of red dough. Push the buzzer's black wire into the red ball and its red wire into the side of the mouse.

  5. Battery holder and buzzer wired to the mouse, the cheese and the red dough ball

    Push the battery holder's black wire into the red ball and its red wire into the cheese. Turn on the battery holder and let your mouse nibble the cheese to make it buzz!

Your finished mouse & cheese