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Illustrated tutorial on how to make a helicopter toy with straws and yogurt bottles

Children, today’s hand-making tutorial is a fun helicopter. Don’t miss it. Get ready your discarded drink bottles, straws, and table tennis balls to make a realistic helicopter model toy! Does it look like it will fly in the next second? If you are interested, you can install a small motor on it to drive the propeller and see if it can really fly!

Illustrated tutorial on how to make a helicopter toy with straws and yogurt bottles

Handmade helicopter toy materials

One yogurt bottle, one ping pong ball, and three straws.

Illustrated tutorial on how to make a helicopter toy with straws and yogurt bottles

Illustrated tutorial on making handmade helicopter toys with straws and yogurt bottles

Illustrated tutorial on how to make a helicopter toy with straws and yogurt bottles

Step 1. Use scissors to make a hole in the bottle cap, just enough to pass through the straw, not too big.

Illustrated tutorial on how to make a helicopter toy with straws and yogurt bottles

Step 2. Decompose the yogurt bottle into three parts to make the helicopter fuselage. www.111diy.com

Illustrated tutorial on how to make a helicopter toy with straws and yogurt bottles

Step 3. Cut the straw into five sections to serve as the wings and base of the helicopter.

Illustrated tutorial on how to make a helicopter toy with straws and yogurt bottles

Step 4. Assemble the cut aircraft parts. The editor used one which is easier to use.The best way is to staple them directly with a stapler.

Illustrated tutorial on how to make a helicopter toy with straws and yogurt bottles

Step 5. Plug the ping pong ball and insert a cut straw into the hole in the bottle cap.

Illustrated tutorial on how to make a helicopter toy with straws and yogurt bottles

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