How do you make an animal cell without jello?

You can't actually *make* an animal cell in the way you'd make a cake or a jello mold. Animal cells are incredibly complex and require a living organism to exist. However, you can model an animal cell using various materials. Here's a way to create a model without using jello:

Materials:

* A spherical container: This could be a balloon, a round plastic container, or even a round piece of clay.

* Modeling clay or playdough: Use different colors to represent different cell parts.

* Toothpicks or skewers: To hold the cell parts together.

* Markers or paint: To label the parts of the cell.

Instructions:

1. Shape the cell: Inflate the balloon or shape the clay into a sphere to represent the cell membrane.

2. Create the nucleus: Use a darker color of clay to form a smaller sphere and place it inside the larger sphere. This represents the nucleus.

3. Add the nucleolus: Create a small ball of clay and place it inside the nucleus to represent the nucleolus.

4. Make the endoplasmic reticulum: Use a long strip of clay or playdough to create a network of interconnected tubes and sacs within the cell. This represents the endoplasmic reticulum.

5. Form the Golgi apparatus: Use smaller, flattened pieces of clay to represent the stacks of Golgi apparatus.

6. Include the mitochondria: Use bean-shaped pieces of clay in a different color to represent the mitochondria.

7. Create ribosomes: Use tiny dots of clay or beads to represent the ribosomes that can be attached to the endoplasmic reticulum or free-floating in the cytoplasm.

8. Add the lysosomes: Use small, round pieces of clay to represent the lysosomes.

9. Represent the cytoplasm: The space between the cell membrane and the nucleus should be filled with a light-colored clay to represent the cytoplasm.

10. Label the parts: Use markers or paint to label the different cell parts you've created.

Remember: This is just a model. Actual animal cells are much more complex and dynamic than what you can represent with clay. This activity is meant to help you understand the basic structure of an animal cell.