Electro Rainbow

Give play dough super powers and brighten up any day with this electro rainbow.

things you will need

5-6 x rainbow colours of play dough
5 x LEDs (red, yellow, green, blue, white)
1 x 4AA battery pack (and batteries)
Cotton wool

Roll out the dough

Roll out each colour of dough into a long strip, decreasing the length of each strip.

Make the rainbow

Connect each strip of dough to the next.
Bend to form an arch and trim as required.

Add an insulator

Place the cotton wool to the right hand side of the rainbow arch.
Roll out some leftover dough and attached to the cotton wool.

Things to know

The cotton wool will prevent a short circuit. You could use any insulator here - plastic, insulating dough, a piece of rubber.

Add the light

Place the long leg of each LED into the matching colour dough strip.
Place the short leg of each LED into the single piece of dough connected to the right-hand side of the cotton wool.

Power it up

Make sure the battery pack is OFF.
Insert the red battery wire into first rainbow strip (red).
Insert the black battery wire into the dough attached to the right-hand side of the cotton wool.

Things to know

Make sure the red battery wire is placed into the rainbow as the LEDs will only light up when the long leg is connected to the positive (red) end of the battery.