‹ All projects

Circuit Project

Printable instructionsInstruction card, PDF

Download PDF

What you need

  • Purple conductive dough
  • 1 LED
  • Battery holder with 4 AA batteries

Steps

  1. Two long rolled strips of purple dough

    Roll out two long strips of purple dough and shape each one into a W-shaped squiggle.

  2. Four small purple dough pieces

    Roll out four small pieces of purple dough and shape them into doughnuts.

  3. Two purple dough squiggles with a doughnut at each end

    Attach a doughnut to each end of the two squiggle strips.

  4. Two squiggles joined by an LED at one end

    Push the long leg of the LED into a doughnut at the end of one strip and the short leg into a doughnut at the end of the other strip.

  5. Purple dough squiggle circuit with a glowing LED, wired to the battery holder

    Push the red wire into the doughnut on the other end of the first strip and the black wire into the doughnut on the second strip. Turn on the battery holder to light up your circuit!

Your finished circuit

Watch the build on YouTube