Q&A for How to Make an Animal Cell for a Science Project

You can use air-dry clay and dot it with a toothpick or a sharp object to indicate that it is semi-permeable.

You can use pipe cleaners, and twirl them around a bit.

Basically like an animal cell but with more organelles for example: chloroplast, vacuoles, peroxisomes, plasmodesmata, and a cell wall.

Glass or plastic baubles are good because they can be clear. Try finding one that can be split in two.

Cytoplasm is a jelly-like substance. So you may use slime, or simply paint the inner side.

You could use an orange? Maybe an apricot or plum are good options. A small piece of fruit like a mini apple are great options!

You could use green skinny oval-like clay. Before you do it, look up a picture of it on the computer to see what it looks like.

You could use items like: buttons, small plastic circles, small paper or cardboard circles, or small clay balls.

As it says above in Method 4, you can use marbles, hollow rubber balls cut in half, bottle caps or small cut-up pieces of a plastic bag.

I used clay and rolled a fat piece with my finger and made a fat jelly-bean shaped noodle.

You could use tin foil or a plastic bag or a line of something around the edge of the bowl. Or, if you are making an animal cell, which does not have a cell wall, just a cell membrane, you could say the edge of the bowl is the membrane. But that would not work for an animal cell, since they have a cell wall and a cell membrane.

You could probably use any spherical object that is of the right size and not hollow inside.

If your cell has to be edible, you could use a round fruit, such as an apricot or orange cut in half, or a cupcake, if you are using a cake to make your model. If you are using jelly, you could scoop out some in the middle of the cell and put in a different coloured kind. If your model has to be inedible, use a styrofoam / plastic ball. Follow your instructor's instructions if he/she has mentioned what to use.