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UFO Project

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What you need

  • Green conductive dough
  • Yellow conductive dough
  • Orange conductive dough
  • White insulating dough
  • 5 LEDs
  • Battery holder with 4 AA batteries

Steps

  1. Yellow dough dome on a green dough disc

    Make the body of the UFO from green, yellow and white insulating dough: sandwich a thin circle of white dough between a flat green circle and a yellow half circle.

  2. UFO with orange dough vent rings around the green disc

    Make the round antenna and the vent rings from orange dough. Attach the antenna to the top of the yellow dome and space the vents evenly around the green disc.

  3. UFO next to three orange dough balls for the landing gear

    Make the landing gear: roll three balls of orange dough the same size and attach them to the bottom of the green disc.

  4. UFO with LEDs, wired to the battery holder

    Attach five LEDs: push the long legs into the yellow dough and the short legs into the green dough.

  5. Dough UFO with a yellow dome and an orange antenna, wired to the battery holder

    Last, attach the battery holder. Push the red wire into the yellow dough and the black wire into the green dough. Turn on the battery holder to see the lights shine.

Your finished ufo