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D.I.Y.
Tool Kit
COMPASS
• Venus Alleah Nuñez
o you need help in navigating the needle through the edges of the
directions? Learn and have fun cork. Push the needle until the same
Din making your own compass! length of it sticks out from either
side of the cork.
Materials
• magnet 5. Place the cork in the bowl. Make
• needle sure that it is floating above the
surface of the water and that both
• cork stopper ends of the needles are sticking
• a bowl of water out.
• scissors or cutter 6. Check if the needle is magnetized
• marker enough. Watch the cork
slowly rotate clockwise or
To Make the Compass... counterclockwise. If it does not
1. Look for supervision! Ask your move, rub the ends of the needle
parents or an older sibling to help again on the magnet.
you make the compass. 7. Figure out the directions. Use
2. Magnetize the needle. Rub one another compass to help you
end of the needle on one side of determine the north and the
the magnet. Continuously do this south ends of the needle. Lay
for at least 30 times in the same the compass horizontally beside
direction, and then do it to the the bowl. Observe the compass
other end on the flipside of the needle. Its south end will be
magnet. attracted to the north end of the
3. Prepare the cork. Draw a circle cork’s needle, and vice versa.
about 2 inches in diameter (or a at 8. Label the cork with N for north
least the size of a coin) on the cork. and S for south. Now, you have
Let your parents or older sibling cut a homemade compass. Happy
it out. navigating!
4. Insert the needle in the cork. Pierce References:
WikiHow. “How to Make a Compass,” accessed March 13, 2019, https://
www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Compass.
50 Rookie Parenting. “How to Make a Compass for Kids,” accessed March 13,
2019, https://www.rookieparenting.com/make-your-own-compass/
