To please a child or your soulmate, you can make a glowing, ice ball. Its drawback is that it melts at room temperature, but if you decorate the yard with such balls on New Year's Eve or at Christmas, then you and your guests will experience the real atmosphere of the holiday. The ball will glow until it melts or until the batteries in the LEDs burn out. Try to surprise your guests and neighbors with such an amazing craft.
We invite you to familiarize yourself with the manufacturing process homemade.
To create a luminous ball, we need:
- expander;
- pliers;
- any marker;
- balloon;
- several LEDs;
- a glass.
So, we will begin. We pour ordinary water into a glass. 200 grams is enough for us. You should not take too much water, since then we will still add it from the tap. We need this amount so that the dye can dissolve and give the desired color to the water.
We take, break our marker and pull cotton from it. We will use this cotton wool as a dye.
We throw the dye (in our case, cotton from the felt-tip pen) into a glass of water. To make the water better colored, it is better to rub the cotton wool. You can use food coloring that remained after Easter, and if there is neither one nor the other, dilute a little gouache or watercolors in the water.
Now we take our LEDs, turn them on and wrap them with electrical tape, leaving only the lights on. Insulating tape is needed to wind the wiring and the junction of the batteries. Then they will be thrown into the water and it is highly undesirable that the water comes into contact with the batteries.
The next step, we need to fill in the balloon a little dye diluted in water.
After you poured a glass of water with a dye into a ball - lower the LEDs there. Throw them directly into the water.
Next, add ordinary tap water to the ball. In size, you should get a small melon. Do not make the ball too big, it will be very difficult to place it in the freezer and the effect of the diodes will not be the same.
At the base, tie the ball to a knot.
Now the ball must be placed in the freezer and wait 2 hours.
Next, we take a knife and cut it - we look at what we got. Do not spare time for its freezing, it may turn out that the walls will be frozen, and in the middle there will still be water.