LEGO Bucket turned "scary" pumpkin head (and candy collecting bucket)

So you have an unused LEGO Bucket and you want to turn it into a "scary" pumpkin head for Halloween. I didn't either, but I did have a fully involved LEGO bucket that I dumped out and decided to make into a "scary" pumpkin head. ;^)

I saw this LEGO Bucket, set 3047 from 1998, in amongst my LEGO collection and decided to turn it into a pumpkin head for Halloween. I placed two stipulations on myself for this, my first Instructable. First, I didn't want to ruin the container. Second, all of the electronic components had to be recycleable or reusable in some manner.  

I am happy to say I accomplished both. Follow these steps and you can turn practically any plastic Halloween bucket into a LED lit pumpkin head.

Step 1 Source the parts

You must obtain basic electrical components for this build and a Halloween bucket. I used the previously mentioned LEGO 3047 Set - Halloween Bucket. 

The electrical components include the following but are basically a power source (battery holder), batteries, LED's, a resistor, and wire.
 

• (2) 10 mm White, Ultra High Brightness LEDs (~23,000 mcd)
• (6) 5 mm White, High brightness LED's (~2,300 mcd) 
• (2) AA Batteries
• (1) 10 ohm resistor
• (1) 2 AA battery holder
• wire of various lengths cut from a spool, I used 20 guage wire

Of course, I sourced all of these parts from Radio Shack. Some stores have what you need and others do not. I went to two separate stores and was able to obtain the parts I needed. I welcome comments from anyone that can suggest a better source for the price.

Comments

[eetzel]

I like it! Maybe I will try this next year