Mechanical Animated Halloween Light Box for Room Decor

Sun board is an amazing material with which we can use it for art and craft, it's main advantage is its flexibility and strength, with this material I made a mechanical animated halloween light box for room decor which include few animated jack-o'-lantern. Jack-o'-lanterns are associated with the Halloween holiday. Its name comes from the reported phenomenon of strange lights flickering over peatbogs, called will-o'-the-wisps or jack-o'-lanterns

Materials:

• Sun-board
• Wooden Chopstick
• Super Glue
• Sketch Pen for markings
• Yellow 0.5 Watt LED Night Bulb
• Bulb Holder
• 2m Wires
• 2-pin Plug

Tools:

• Scale
• Utility Knife

• Take a sun board of the required size
• Cut out the center part and keep the remaining
• Using the cut out pieces make the boundary wall to create hollow base box

• Draw a circle and cut it out from the center of the sun board which will go as base layer
• Take another sun-board and draw outlines as shown in the images and cut out the lines which will be the second layer
• Same steps needs to be followed on another sun-board which will be the third base layer as shown in the image

• Outline of house is drawn on the sun-board and outline is cut out from it
• On another sun-board jack-o'-lantern is drawn and outline is cut out from it
• More jack-o'-lantern is drawn and cut out and glued with a stick and a '[ ]' bracket type sun-board paddles.

• Wooden chop sticks are attached in the lower part of the box with 2 O-rings made out of sun-board fitted in the chopsticks
• A sun-board strip with two 2mm holes are made to guide the jack-o'-lantern sticks.
• A 0.5" by 9.5" sun-board strip was cut and two small holes were pade for the jack-o'-lantern sticks' to pass.
• Jack-o'-lantern are placed as shown in the images.
• Two washers made with sun-boards were placed on both ends of the chopstick to lock the stick from outside the lightbox.
• All the layers were then placed one above the other.

• After placing each and every layer inside the box the yellow bulb is fitted on a DIY light projector box made with sun-board.
• The light projector box was then fitted from the behind.

Now the project is ready. As we twist the chopstick from outside, we can see the jack-o'-lantern moves.

It is my sincere hope that the process of creating this project was enjoyable for you. Could you please provide feedback?