We had a lot of fun making these and hope you have fun making these as well.
How to Build an Electric Car
The stuff you will need:
Materials
Square wood for the structure of your car
Wooden dowel rods
4 wooden wheels
A mini saw
Saw board
Corrugated plastic
Cardboard triangles green+grey
Elastic bands
Electrics
Batteries
Electrical wires
A motor
Pulley
Batteries holder
Electrical switch (Cork and 2 pins and a paperclip)
Tools and Equipment
A pencil and ruler
Scissors
A mini saw
Wire strippers (To cut excess wire)
Paint brush and poster paint
Duck tape or normal tape
A glue gun or a glue stick
How to make
- Make a design of your choice
- Gather the measurements
- Collect your squared wood and mini saw
- Cut the rods and squared wood to the right measurements
- Stick your coloured triangles and put the green triangles in the corners and the grey on the bottom
- Push the axel through the grey triangles and push the wheels on to the axle
- Cut the corrugated plastic for the base of your car and stick to the frame
- On the corrugated plastic you will need a hole for a pulley to fit in cut the hole with a craft knife
- After the hole is fitted you grab a pulley and a screwdriver and make a hole for the axle to fit in the pulleys hole
- Now we will haft to make our electrical switch for the vehicle to move
Get your 2 pins and stick them in the cork then grab your paper clip and connect that on to a pin - Attach your wires to the batteries the circuit and the cork
- Stick the circuit on to the base of your car with some tape
- After the electrical things are finished you will make your net
- Draw your car on to some card but before sticking it together decorate it to your choice
- After decorating your car you will stick it all together and on to the frame of your car
- You will need to cut a hole that you can turn your motor on to work
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