HW12.1 Basic Circuit Greeting Card

I used basic circuits to create a card for my mom for Mother's Day.  One of our favorite songs is 'You Are My Sunshine' so I used the lyrics of the song in the card and created images to accompany them.  The basic circuitry allowed me to add LEDs to the lightning bolt of the "grey skies" within the card. 

1. Poke both LEDs through the paper.
2. Spread the cathode and anode (the two wires of the LED) apart and flatten them on either side.  Make sure that the cathodes of both LEDs are on one side and the Anodes of both LEDS are on the other side.
3. Lay down a strip of conducting tape over the Cathodes.
4. Lay down a strip of conducting tape over the Anodes, but leave a 1 inch section of tape open at the bottom.
5. Attach a battery to the 1 inch section of Anode conducting tape.
6. Bend the Anode conducting tape so that the battery touches the cathode conducting tape.
7. The LEDs should light up when the battery connects the two tapes, this is a switch.

Although I thought this was an interesting process, I did not like the act of making a project specifically to use basic circuits.  It felt stifling.  I would rather add basic circuits to a project that I was already invested in and that I thought could be improved by LEDs, etc.