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Crab Project

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What you need

  • Red conductive dough
  • White insulating dough
  • 2 LEDs
  • Battery holder with 4 AA batteries

Steps

  1. Red dough shell pieces and a white insulating layer

    Make a top shell and a bottom shell from red dough. Place a layer of white insulating dough between the shells.

  2. Red dough crab with claws and legs

    Make claws and legs and attach them to the bottom shell of the body. They must not touch the top shell.

  3. Red dough crab seen from above

    Add the LEDs to the crab's body: push the long leg of each LED into the bottom shell and the short leg into the top shell.

  4. Crab with two glowing LED eyes, wired to the battery holder

    Last, attach the battery holder. Push the red wire into the bottom shell and the black wire into the top shell. Turn on the battery holder to light up the crab's eyes!

Your finished crab