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Butterfly Project

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What you need

  • Blue conductive dough
  • Green conductive dough
  • White insulating dough
  • 3 LEDs
  • Battery holder with 4 AA batteries

Steps

  1. Two blue and two green dough wings arranged like a butterfly

    To make the wings, shape two pieces of blue dough as shown. Do the same with green dough. Arrange them like butterfly wings.

  2. White insulating dough body down the middle of the wings

    Roll out a long piece of white insulating dough for the body and place it in the center of the wings.

  3. Butterfly with dough dots on its wings and green antennae

    Make the butterfly's dots and antennae and attach them to the body and wings.

  4. Three LEDs pushed across the white body of the butterfly

    Push the long legs of the LEDs into the left wings and the short legs into the right wings.

  5. Butterfly wired to the battery holder

    Push the red wire into the left green wing and the black wire into the blue wing. Turn on the battery holder to see your butterfly light up!

Your finished butterfly