Electric Spinning Bat

Looking for some new and innovative halloween decor? Let your kids try their hand at creating a battery-powered spinning bat sculpture!

  1. Ages: 7 +

  2. <30 minutes

  3. A little messy

  4. Grownup needed

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Materials you'll need

  • battery
  • thin copper wire
  • neodymium magnets
  • sand paper
  • black paper
  • hot glue gun
  • scissors

Step-by-step tutorial

  • Step 1

    Gather your materials.

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  • Step 2

    Cut out a roughly 10 inch length of thin copper wire.

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  • Step 3

    Sand paper both ends of the wire.

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  • Step 4

    Fold wire in half.

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  • Step 5

    Sand paper the crease.

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  • Step 6

    Shape the wire into a box shape, with the crease in the middle.

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  • Step 7

    Attach a stack of magnets to the negative end of a battery.

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  • Step 8

    Balance the wire on the battery to the crease sits on top and the wire ends touch the magnets. The wire should start spinning.

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  • Step 9

    Cut out two identical bat shapes and an oval out of black paper.

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  • Step 10

    Use hot glue to stick the bat shapes to the top of the wire, and the oval to the battery.

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  • Step 11

    Now balance the wire on the battery and watch as the bat starts spinning.

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  • Done!

    Electric Spinning Bat.

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