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Tugboat Project

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What you need

  • Purple conductive dough
  • Yellow conductive dough
  • White insulating dough
  • Buzzer
  • Battery holder with 4 AA batteries

Steps

  1. Purple dough hull and wheelhouse pieces

    Make the hull and the wheelhouse of the tugboat from purple dough. The wheelhouse should look like a cube, and the hull should be shaped like a boat.

  2. Purple wheelhouse and hull next to small yellow dough windows

    Make windows for the wheelhouse from yellow dough: two side windows and a larger front window. Attach the windows to the wheelhouse.

  3. Tugboat with a yellow window on its purple wheelhouse

    Use white insulating dough to make a thin square about the size of the bottom of the wheelhouse. Sandwich it between the wheelhouse and the hull.

  4. Purple dough tugboat with the wheelhouse on the hull

    Place the buzzer on top of the wheelhouse as the smokestack, with the wires facing the back of the boat. Push the buzzer's red wire into the back of the hull and its black wire into the back of the wheelhouse.

  5. Tugboat with a buzzer smokestack, wired to the battery holder

    Last, attach the battery holder. Push the red wire into the hull and the black wire into the back of the wheelhouse. Turn on the battery holder to make the buzzer sound.

Your finished tugboat