Glowing Snowflake Baubles

In this tutorial we will show you how to make glowing snowflake bauble using Bare Paint and some LEDs ready to put on your desk or hang around your house for the holidays.

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Step 1: Materials and Components

Materials

Bare Paint
Pen
Paint Brush
Paper, we've used thick cartridge paper, but copy paper would work fine
Scissors
Cellotape
3V Button Cell Battery
White LEDs or whatever colour you want.

Components

3V Button Cell Batteries UK: Farnell / US: RadioShack
LED's UK: Farnell / US: RadioShack

* Make sure you buy several Batteries and LEDs for all your projects in advance to save on shipping charges, and so you don't have to wait to do fun tutorials.

rageous says: Dec 9, 2011. 6:26 PM

Very cool... Great Instructable, I'll have to make some of these with my son!!!

BareConductive (author) in reply to rageousDec 12, 2011. 1:50 AM

Thanks, if you do make some, send us some photos of them!

ynze says: Dec 8, 2011. 7:37 AM

GREAT! I'm working on something very similar, and yet different! I'll let you know!

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Penolopy Bulnick says: Dec 7, 2011. 10:56 AM

That is such a cute idea!

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jessyratfink says: Dec 7, 2011. 7:52 AM

These are so pretty!

BareConductive (author) in reply to jessyratfinkDec 7, 2011. 10:12 AM

Thanks, they glow for quite a while too as it's just one LED and battery.

canucksgirl says: Dec 7, 2011. 9:34 AM

Beautiful! - I only have one question. Do they stay on all the time or is there a way of shutting them off to conserve the battery?

BareConductive (author) in reply to canucksgirlDec 7, 2011. 10:11 AM

Hi,
You can fairly easily get the battery out by unfolding the flap that it's in, but good point we need to figure out a switch for them. I'll have to work on that...