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Whale Project

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What you need

  • Blue conductive dough
  • White insulating dough
  • Black conductive dough
  • 1 LED
  • Battery holder with 4 AA batteries

Steps

  1. Blue dough rolled into a teardrop shape

    Make the body by rolling a large piece of blue dough into a teardrop shape.

  2. Blue dough whale body with a fan-shaped tail

    To make the tail, pinch the narrow end of the teardrop into a fan shape. Lift the tail so it stands up off the table.

  3. Whale next to small white and black dough balls for the eyes

    To make the eyes, roll two white balls and two smaller black balls. Put the black dough on top of the white dough and place the eyes on the sides of the whale's head.

  4. Hand holding the blue whale with eyes and a white blowhole

    Use white insulating dough to make a blowhole and place it on top of the whale's head.

  5. Hand adding a blue water spout on the whale's blowhole

    Roll a small tube of blue dough for the water spout and stand it on top of the white blowhole.

  6. Whale with an LED in its water spout

    Push the short leg of the LED into the water spout and the long leg into the whale's body. The battery holder's red wire goes into the body too.

  7. Blue dough whale with an LED spout, wired to the battery holder

    Last, attach the battery holder. Push the red wire into the whale's body and the black wire into the water spout. Turn on the battery holder to light up the whale.

Your finished whale