Making Glowing Paper Pumpkins

Making Glowing Paper Pumpkins

In this tutorial we will show you how to make glowing paper pumpkins using Bare Paint and some LEDs ready to put on your desk or hang around your house, to scare people on halloween.

Step 1: Materials

Materials

Bare Paint
Pen
Paint Brush
Paper as thin as you can get but copy paper works great
Scissors
Cellotape
3V Button Cell Battery
Amber or Red LEDs

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.

Comments

[capricorn]

Absolutely stunning. I will keep this project for future reference

Thank you for sharing :)

[NatureGeek24]

Very nice! I'm marking for my to-make list for next year.

[emdaniels]

Nice project- it reminds me of Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories Paper Circuitry project. [http://www.evilmadscientist.com/article.php/papercircuitry]

When I recreated the EMSL one it was hard to fold the aluminum traces without it ripping, but it looks like your circuit would work better with the paper folds.

[BareConductive]

Definitely! EMSL has some great stuff. Our Paint is really good for paper folding and can work really well alongside other materials (like aluminum foil). Keep an eye out, we're going to be posting a lot more paper projects.

[ChrysN]

Neat, I'd love to try out some of that conductive paint.

[BareConductive]

Hi ChrysN, please do! You can get some here:

http://www.bareconductive.com/store

have fun!

[scoochmaroo]

LOVE IT!

[Penolopy Bulnick]

This is sooo cute! And such thorough instructions. Awesome Instructable.