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Turtle Project

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What you need

  • Green conductive dough
  • Orange conductive dough
  • White insulating dough
  • 2 LEDs
  • Googly eyes (optional)
  • Battery holder with 4 AA batteries

Steps

  1. Small round piece of green dough

    Make the turtle's body by shaping green dough into a circle.

  2. Green dough turtle body with four legs

    Make four legs from green dough and attach one to each side of the body.

  3. Ball of green dough for the turtle's head

    Make the head by rolling a ball of green dough. Flatten a piece of white insulating dough and attach both to the body, with the white dough between the head and the body.

  4. Turtle body with four legs and a head with googly eyes

    Add two googly eyes to the head (optional).

  5. Turtle with an orange dough shell

    Make the shell by flattening orange dough into a circle. Press a shell pattern into it with the dough knife.

  6. Turtle with LEDs between its orange shell and its head

    Push the long LED legs into the turtle's shell and the short legs into the head.

  7. Turtle wired to the battery holder

    Push the battery holder's red wire into the turtle's body and the black wire into the head. Turn on the battery holder to light up your turtle!

Your finished turtle