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Saturday, October 24, 2009

Dancing, and how to make racing snails in a few small and easy steps

First, get an about 40cm wooden board (or 16 inches if you like to measure it differently). Then, color it green with oil pastels.

Then get all the parts you see on this picture (sorry, we forgot to put a spool of wire in this photo, but if you don't have any you can get some).

Then, you remember those steel cable straps from the last picture, don't you? Well, those are for the snail bodies. But we'll get back to that later. Now, you have to put one of those straps onto a part of the board-- any part you like. Also, you can put them in any order. Now, get 3 lock nuts and punch holes in some safety tape and stick them onto the lock nuts. (Two on each one.) And put dots on them to make eyes. Then screw a metal washer onto each of the lock nuts but don't start screwing until you have put on a wing nut on top of it to make antennae. After that the final thing in this step is to twist in with a wrench a screw eyelet on the opposite side of the cable strap.

Next, put a small silver bell inside the small snail. But you can put in a gold one if it fits. Tie it on with wire. Then, put some nail polish over the knot. For the bigger ones, color some metal washers on one of them and use at least three. Then, do the same thing with the wire and nail polish. Finally, find a small aluminum disc and do the exact same thing once again with the wire and nail polish. The bell will ring when the wind comes. Also when the wind comes, the aluminum disc will spin and the washers will clang together.

The snails are gonna be really cool as soon as you make them. Making it is fun! And it's also fun to look at them and enjoy it. Now here's a cool movie about Dorian dancing:



I love doing dancing movies! They're really good. Mom makes movies of me doing the dance moves on the camera. I saw it. It was a good dance move. It's really good doing dance moves on my movies. It's a good dance move and it makes you good exercise. It's great when you really have energy-- a lot of energy-- you're really good to make you play outside for a little time. It makes me good and feel cozy. I like it!

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