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Fireflies Project

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What you need

  • Yellow conductive dough
  • Blue conductive dough
  • Purple conductive dough
  • White insulating dough
  • 3 wired LEDs
  • Googly eyes (optional)
  • Battery holder with 4 AA batteries

Steps

  1. Three wired LEDs next to blue and yellow dough firefly bodies

    Make a body for each of the three fireflies, each in a different color.

  2. Three firefly bodies with white dough wings, each next to a wired LED

    Make the wings from white insulating dough, two for each firefly, and attach them as shown.

  3. Yellow, blue and purple dough fireflies with white wings and googly eyes

    Add two googly eyes to each firefly for a fun look!

  4. Yellow and purple dough module above the three fireflies on wired LEDs

    Make a module from yellow and purple dough with a small piece of white insulating dough in between.

  5. Fireflies on wired LEDs connected to the dough module and battery holder

    Place each firefly on top of a wired LED, with the red wire always on the right side. The LED should stick out from the back of the firefly.

  6. Three fireflies with glowing wired LEDs, wired to the module and battery holder

    Connect the wired LEDs to the module: push each firefly's red wire into the yellow dough and each black wire into the purple dough. Then push the battery holder's red wire into the yellow dough and its black wire into the purple dough. Turn on the battery holder to light up the fireflies!

Your finished fireflies