Homemade iPad Stylus

If you use iPod touches or iPads in your classroom, I have found an easy and inexpensive way to make a stylus for your students to use.  

Materials:

Unsharpened pencil

Aluminum foil

Scotch tape

#0000 steel wool (this will NOT scratch glass)

Colorful duct tape

1.  Attach a small piece of scotch tape to one corner of the aluminum foil.

2.  Attach the tape to the middle of the unsharpened pencil.

3.  Begin to tightly roll the aluminum foil around the pencil.

4.  Tape the loose end of the aluminum foil to the pencil.

5.  There will be excess aluminum foil on each end of the pencil.  Cut half of the foil off each end and fold over the end of the pencil.  Make sure each end is smooth and then tape to the pencil.

6.  Get a small piece of #0000 steel wool and wrap over one end of the pencil.

7.  Tape the steel wool tightly to the pencil.

8.  Use colorful duct tape to customize your new stylus.