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Hi I'm Oakley and I'm going to tell you about a Mini-mini Golf course I designed and then made.The golf courses base is a yellow styrofoam board that is pretty big. Extra pieces were cut off for obstacles. The design of my golf course is a farm yard. There is a pond with real water and two people on it. The farm walls are a blue wavey plastic. A: What my partner and I tried to do My partner and I tried to make a course that we thought would interest many people and nobody else would have. So we built a farm, but don't worry it wasn't very big . We tried to make the course as tricky as we could and I'm sure we did. We especially tried to make the course as fun as possible. |
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B: Problems and Solutions One of the problems I had was definitly with my moving part. You see my moving part is kind of like a clock's pendulum exept you pull it back, it won't just go by its self . Well the problem was that when you would pull the pendulum it would not start swinging. I figured that the pendulum was getting stuck on the walls it was in. So to solve that problem I put slits in the walls. One other problem was that I had made a barn where the holes in it, so you could go through, weren't big enough. They weren't big enough because when I dug a place in the styrofoam I dug a little to deep. The way I solved that problem was by getting rid of the barn and replacing it with a pond. |
C: List of materials you need to build my golf course 1. A partner 2. A smooth styrofoam board 3. A large square piece of cardboard 4. About three feet of a pretty thin able to bend wire 5. About six feet of navy blue wavey plastic 6. One small yogurt cup 7. Tooth picks ( around ten) 8. Wine corks ( exactly three) 9. One small rubber cup 10. water and a sponge 11. A black square of paper (preferably small ) 12. A small bumpy blue tube 13. A bottle cap 14. Ducktape 15. some little pieces of thick paper 16. A small piece of a skinny bamboo stick |
D: The directions to build my course The first step to building my course is that you take your styrofoam board and you pop holes in it for the shape of the course. The second thing you do is you start scraping the mud pits and lake out so they can actually be a lake and mud pits . Handy tip: when you are scraping out the lakes don't scrape too deep. Then you start scraping out thin lines in the styrofoam for the walls . Next you glue in the walls with a hot glue gun. After that you chop off the extra pieces of board and use them for a hill obstacle . The thing you do next is you make your moving part with your large cardboard square and your wire and your small piece of bamboo. In the end the moving part should be a lady throwing chicken feed. Next you make your pig sty with the rest of the cardboard. Then you take one of your plastic cups and fill it with water and stuff it in the hole that you dug for it so that can be your lake. After that you make a little man . He is an obstacle. Next you take your duck tape, bottle cap, and the rest of your card board and make a hidden hole . Oh and don't forget you putt-putters. |
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