I chose the children’s book The Very Hungry Caterpillar and the scene I chose to illustrate was when the caterpillar was inside of the cocoon resting. Since we can’t see the caterpillar inside the cocoon, I wanted to illuminate that the caterpillar was indeed inside the cocoon undergoing transformation. So on top of a drawing of a caterpillar I taped a piece of scoby on top to hide the caterpillar and act as a cocoon. When the lights shine, you can vaguely see the caterpillar resting inside of the cocoon.

My first attempt, I used a thicker piece of paper and the light was able to shine through, but it was so thick that the lights weren’t bright enough to illuminate the drawing through the scoby. Here is the circuit that I built:

I ended up redoing the drawing on a regular piece of printing paper and since it was thinner than the other paper I used, the light was able to illuminate the caterpillar.

It is hard to see from the photo, but I think its clearer when you see it physically.