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Sunflower Project

What you need

  • Yellow conductive dough
  • Green conductive dough
  • White insulating dough
  • Black conductive dough
  • 6 LEDs
  • Battery holder with 4 AA batteries

Steps

  1. Hands shaping a green dough stem with two leaves

    Make the stem and two leaves from green dough.

  2. Flat yellow dough circle above the green stem

    Flatten a ball of yellow dough into a circle and place it at the top of the stem.

  3. Yellow dough flower with six petals on the green stem

    Make six round, flat petals from yellow dough and press them around the yellow circle.

  4. White insulating dough disc in the center of the yellow flower

    Flatten a disc of white insulating dough and place it on the center of the flower.

  5. Black dough disc on the white disc in the center of the flower

    Flatten a smaller disc of black dough and place it on the white disc. The black dough must not touch the yellow dough.

  6. Six LEDs pushed in around the black center of the flower

    Push six LEDs in around the center: the long leg goes into the yellow dough and the short leg into the black dough.

  7. Sunflower with six glowing LEDs, wired to the battery holder

    Push the battery holder's red wire into a yellow petal and the black wire into the black center. Turn on the battery holder to light up your sunflower!

Your finished sunflower