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Farm Yard Course "One of the problems I had was definitly with my moving part." -Oakley
Oakley and Eliza (19k)

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.
Course close-up (9k)
Course close-up (9k)
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
Chicken (9k)

Course close-up (9k)
Course close-up (9k)

Course close-up (9k)
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.

See more pictures of us
working on our course

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