Fireflies Project
Printable instructionsInstruction card, PDF
Download PDFWhat 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
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Make a body for each of the three fireflies, each in a different color.
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Make the wings from white insulating dough, two for each firefly, and attach them as shown.
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Add two googly eyes to each firefly for a fun look!
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Make a module from yellow and purple dough with a small piece of white insulating dough in between.
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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.
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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!