A Mini Lighthouse

By Juliet

Just imagine. A miniscule lighthouse, its stripes as vibrant as the glint of moonlight reflected in a dreamer's eye, its light guiding lost ships back home.

This is exactly what we made on Friday the 18th. Armed with only a couple of pieces of paper, some tape, a few circuit wires, bulbs and a pile of utter junk. The people in the group I was in were all fantastic engineers, technicians and builders.

Our resources were:

-1 kitchen roll inner tube

-1 transparent yogurt pot

-2 crocodile clips

-1 battery back

-1 bulb

-Some card

Our tools of trade were:

-Sello-tape

-Scissors

-Ruler

A few minutes later of wiring, cutting, assembling and sticking, we had a beautiful mini lighthouse with a working bulb. And when I say cutting, I mean painstakingly measuring out each and every individual stripe to look perfect. And when I mean assembling, I mean all hands on deck, stressful work. And when I mean sticking, I mean spending long minutes finding and unpicking the edge-which was definitely the worst, hardest part. Beware- if you dare make this at home, you should defiantly get a Sello tape thing where there is a tool to cut it- like this: