Mushrooms are pretty easy to make with polymer clay. You can color the translucent clay with powdered pigment. http://www.instructables.com/id/Luminous-Mushroom-Night-Light/

Does anyone know a good way to stain hot glue?? I have my instructable half done and i have little mushrooms lying around but my LED's are weak and I need new ones as well as heat shrink.

Have you tried using the cellophane wrapper from a sweet? Unfortunately, I don't have one to try, but I'll bet they melt using either a heat gun or air dryer. They may also dissolve in a solvent to make a paint. You can also get glass paint or one of those "make your own stained glass" kits. This is a great idea though, thanks for showing it.

i'll try to make an instructable tonight

Started this project tonight =) got the master ready so i have to make a mould tomorrow

Slightly tinted silicone for that mushy feel, stick an LED in it before it cures. When cured attach two wires to each leg and wrap them in shrink plastic-tubing (or whatever it's called) for the foot. Drill some holes in the piece of wood, make a larger hole on the bottom side for a battery. attach a switch (perhaps a mushroom without a foot?) Assemble. Victory! For epic victory use clear silicone and RGB-LEDs - and perhaps some kind of multi selector or whatnot. Guess that'll be just a tad trickier (:

is it work?)

Make it solar! Use a solar garden light for the electronics. A mould and a gluegun would be an easy solution for the mushroom caps.

Thinking about this some more..... The REAL glowing mushrooms in nature are very similar to the pictures (except they are green), the top of the mushroom is normally darker than the rest. Maybe place a dot of paint on the very tip of the LED before you insert it so the sides light up more than the tip. Just for added realism. I'm thinking about doing my first instructable.... LOL

Take a stick or dowel and carve it in the shape of the mushroom cap. Then use a propane torch held a few inches from a plastic milk jug (moving back and forth) until it turns clear. Quickly push your carved stick into the plastic and hold it there for a few seconds (might be easier with two people). Now remove the stick and you have a perfect mold to put silicone into. I would spray it first with some mold release. Squeeze some silicone out onto some wax paper or glass and work some kind of dye into it then using a popsicle-stick put the colored silicone into a large syringe and have at it. We used to make the cones for blowgun darts this way (minus the silicone, just use the plastic cone) using a round pointed chisel instead of a stick. Then you put the cone into the end of the blowgun and cut it off with a razor. Perfect fit every time. I could clarify with pictures if you need me to.

Beautiful! - Despite the pro gardening 'rule' that stuff looks better in odd numbers, the two groups of two are perfect. And that blue... As for building one, well the electrics should be simple enough - a couple of triple-A's, or button-cells, connected to one or two LED's, with fibre-optic cables used as the stalks to carry the light into the mushroom caps. I'd have to hide that ugly switch, though! As jeff-o says, the caps would be the most difficult. But you don't necessarily NEED an actual glass-blowing oven - I remember, some 35-40 years ago, doing an experiment in drying something out in a jam (jello, to our American friends) jar on top of a fire guard (and, actually, off to the side of the gas fire, so it didn't even get the full heat), and the heat cusing the jar to soften and become mis-shapen. Not that I'm suggesting that in this case, just pointing out how easy it is to start melting glass. For example, I expect you can buy tiny ovens for enamelling jewellery - and enamel is a form of glass. So the 'only' difficulty then would be a mould to blow the glass into... And then there'd be the question of attaching the caps to the stalks, whilst allowing the light to illuminate them...

I was thinking the same thing - surely someone can recreate this, right? Hmmm, now how to make those mushroom caps. Glass blowing isn't a skill I've picked up yet, and probably never will, due to the lack of a glass-blowing oven!

I'll try