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Castle Project

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What you need

  • Yellow conductive dough
  • Blue conductive dough
  • White insulating dough
  • 1 LED
  • Battery holder with 4 AA batteries

Steps

  1. A yellow dough block between two round yellow towers

    Make a square block and two round towers from yellow dough.

  2. Middle yellow block cut in half with white insulating dough between the halves

    Cut the middle block in two and put a piece of white insulating dough in the center.

  3. Yellow castle pieces with a white dough door and white bricks

    Make the door and a few bricks from white insulating dough and attach them as shown.

  4. Castle towers with blue dough windows

    Make two windows from blue dough and attach them to the towers.

  5. Two blue dough cones next to the castle, seen from above

    Make two cones from blue dough for the tower roofs.

  6. Castle from above with an LED across the middle block and blue cones on the towers

    Place the cones on top of the towers. Then push the LED into the top of the castle with one leg in each half of the middle block.

  7. Finished castle with a glowing LED, wired to the battery holder

    Push the battery holder's red wire into the half of the middle block with the LED's long leg, and the black wire into the other half. Turn on the battery holder to light up your castle!

Your finished castle

Watch the build on YouTube