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Octopus Project

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What you need

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

Steps

  1. Ball of purple dough

    Roll a piece of purple dough into a ball for the octopus's body.

  2. Thin rolled strip of purple dough for an arm

    To make the arms, roll out eight thin pieces of purple dough. Keep one half of each arm straight and curl the other half into a coil.

  3. Eight curled purple dough arms arranged in a circle

    Arrange the arms so the straight ends meet in the center. Make sure the body can cover the opening in the center. The next three steps are shown from the side.

  4. Hand placing the purple body on the arms

    Cut the body ball into a top half and a bottom half. Place a thin piece of white insulating dough on the bottom half, then put the top half on the white dough.

  5. Purple octopus with curled arms, wired to the battery holder

    Push the long legs of the LEDs into the top half of the body and the short legs into the bottom half.

  6. Purple dough octopus with two glowing LED eyes

    Last, push the battery holder's red wire into the top half of the body and the black wire into the bottom half. Turn on the battery holder to light up your octopus!

Your finished octopus