Light up your child’s artwork by circuiting LED lights using conductive materials. This innovative project will have your child wearing her artistic and engineering hat all at once. The brainchild of Galileo, the STEM camp that encourages innovation, this DIY project is simple enough to do right on your dining room table and doesn’t require a ton of materials. If done right, it might illuminate more than your child’s art. It might spark a light bulb in your child’s head.
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What You Need:
- 1 piece of 8 1/2 x 11 cardstock
- Markers or colored pencils
- Scissors
- 1 small binder clip
- Copper tape
- 3 volt coin-cell battery
- LEDs
- Conductive thread
- Clear tape
* The red, green, orange or yellow LEDs will utilize less battery than the blue and white LEDs, which requrire a higher voltage battery.
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(If it doesn’t light up the first try, don’t fret! Testing your plate and redesigning them as needed to make your LED light up is an essential part of becoming an innovator. Check to make sure both sides of the battery are touching the shiny, conductive side of the copper tape, and make sure the negative and positive strips aren’t touching each other. Shift the LED leads around.)
To ensure good connection, wrap the thread around the LEAD lead a few times for both the positive and negative side. Then tape the thread and lead down on the paper. Do this for both the positive and negative side.
Hold each thread to its corresponding battery plate and make sure the lights turn on. Once you’ve confirmed your LED lights up, use scotch tape to secure the threads to each plate. Completely cover each thread separately with tape if you plan to use more than one LED light so that even if the threads criss-cross, they won’t touch teach other.
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