Sweater Weather Ornament Kit

Celebrate a return to sweater weather!  Anyone can put together this quick and easy kit, no special skills or tools are needed.  This crafty decoration is created by twisting together a simple circuit with your fingers.  In each kit we provide the following, all you'll need is a phillips (+) screwdriver.  Full instructions are here!

1 - CR2032 Battery
1 - Battery Holder
3 - Flat Top RGB LED
3 - Red Wires
3 - Blue Wires
2 - Wood Screws
1 - Sweater Weather Ornament

About the Kit:

This super cute artwork is by Maria of A Needle Runs Through It, who also provided artwork for our Swirly Sheep and Sock It To Me ornament kits.

With this kit, we're bringing back old-school breadboards! You assemble it by sticking the LEDs through the board, wire-wrapping around them with the provided wires, wrapping the same wires around 2 screw posts, and also twisting the battery holder wires around the screw posts. This is a great activity for those new to electronics, or for old-school hacks that just want to have a bit of fun with a project that's quick and gratifying.

A Note on Battery Life:
It is very difficult to balance a love for All Things Blinky with small unobtrusive battery sources. We've provided a CR2032 battery and holder with this kit precisely because it's small and can't provide a ton of current (and is therefore much safer when accidentally shorted than a rechargeable lithium ion). But this means there's not a lot of overhead for the blue in each of the RGB LEDs. They start out very bright and rainbow-flashing, and then blue and magenta colors fade relatively quickly. Red, green, and yellow stick around for a lot longer, and then it diminishes to all red at the very end. Since these are holiday-themed, we were OK with this behavior. One CR2032 will generally last about 15 hrs until it completely goes out, so we recommend leaving it on for a few hours in the evening, instead of all day long. If you'd like longer battery life, you can use 2 AA or AAA batteries instead. You'll need a holder for them like this or this.