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Home » Key Stage 2 Science » How to make a play dough light up pumpkin

How to make a play dough light up pumpkin

Modified: Oct 13, 2023 · Published: Oct 28, 2015 by Emma Vanstone · This post may contain affiliate links · 1 Comment

Looking for a fun and educational activity for your kids? Making circuits with playdough is one of the best. Kids get to learn about electricity and circuits, while creating their own sculptures that light up. These mini light-up pumpkins are a fun idea for a Halloween science activity.

What do you think?

Electro dough pumpkin
light up pumpkin

The idea of a circuit is that electricity flows through components from positive to negative.  You can see below that we had to add a plastic layer to separate the two legs of each LED. Without the insulation, there would be no need for the electricity to go through the LED. It could just make the circuit back to the battery.  With the insulation in place, the electricity has to go through the LED back to the battery to form the circuit, so completing the circuit and lighting up the LEDs.

playdough circuit

Have you seen our other Halloween science ideas? Try making ooey gooey slime, pumpkin lava lamps, glow in the dark goo and lots more.

Electro Dough Pumpkin - electricity for kids #HalloweenScience #Electricity #electrodough

Last Updated on October 13, 2023 by Emma Vanstone

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  1. Rohit

    October 28, 2015 at 8:32 pm

    Looks good and it’s easy to make. Nice one.

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