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Fish Project

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What you need

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

Steps

  1. Hand drawing a fish outline on flattened purple dough with a dough tool

    Flatten a large piece of purple dough. Use the dough tool to draw a fish shape with a tail, then cut it out.

  2. Purple dough fish with its head cut off, next to a rolled strip of white dough

    Cut the head off the fish with one curved cut.

  3. Purple dough fish with a white insulating strip between the head and the body

    Make a strip of white insulating dough that fits between the head and the body to keep them apart.

  4. Purple dough fish with red dough fins

    Make the fins from red dough and attach them to the body.

  5. Purple fish with an LED eye, wired to the battery holder

    Push in an LED for the eye, with one leg in the head and one in the body. Push the battery holder's red wire into one part and the black wire into the other. The long LED leg goes into the dough with the red wire.

  6. Purple dough fish with a glowing LED eye

    Turn on the battery holder to light up the LED.

Your finished fish