The Electric Eel

This fun craft was inspired by noodle bots. I wanted to find another way to use pool noodles and the battery powered toothbrush to create a fun learning animal for my preschool students in Stem lab.

You will need:

Pool noodle, battery powered toothbrush from Dollar tree, piece of foil, two ditto sheets of a eel, tape, box cutter

Give your students two sheets of an eel to color, use brown and black to get eel effect.

After coloring, cut them out.

Next put battery inside the toothbrush on the bottom. Cut your noodle the size of the toothbrush, i used a box cutter.

Push in toothbrush head first into noodle.

Should look like this.

Cut a piece of foil enough to wrap your noodle

Roll tight shiny side up on noodle.

Body of Eel should look like this.

On each side of the body you can put tape to attach the paper eel. Do the same on opposite side. Slide the switch will hum, put eel on table and it will move around. When I did this with prek they were amazed!

Hope you try this with your little students