How to Make a Multicolored Flashlight

Flashlights may come in all shapes and sizes, but flashlight bulbs don't always beam in all colors. Whether you are lighting your way or lighting a skit or play at home for friends and family, a multicolored flashlight is a useful item to have.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Flashlights
• See-through colored plastic notebook covers
• Pencil
• Scissors

Multicolored Flashlight with Plastic Wrap

1. Prepare for this project by ripping a few small sheets of plastic wrap from each colored roll, and cut several 1-inch long pieces of tape for later use. Your plastic wrap sheets should be approximately 1 inch wider than your flashlight top.

2. Pick up a flashlight and colored piece of plastic wrap. Completely cover the top of the flashlight with the wrap, and tape the wrap to the flashlight. You now have a single color flashlight beam. Repeat this process with additional pieces over the first to create new and unique colors.

3. Repeat Step 1 with another flashlight. Wrap the plastic wrap over one half of the flashlight top, and stretch the wrap until it is taut over the top of the light with one edge of the wrap running vertically straight through the middle of the top. Tape securely, and then repeat on the other side with a different colored sheet of plastic.

4. You now have a multicolored light with either a three-color beam (two sheet colors and a unique third in the middle where the plastic wraps overlapped) or two-color beam with a white line (two sheet colors with the original light peeking through where the two sheets do not overlap in the middle).

5. Wrap another sheet of colored plastic horizontally over the finished top to create an additional or unique colored beam.

Multicolored Flashlights with Plastic Notebook Covers

6. Unscrew the flashlight top from the flashlight.

7. Pop the thin plastic insert out of the ring top.

8. Place the plastic insert on one of your notebook covers. Trace the shape of the insert onto the cover with your pencil.

9. Cut out the insert, and pop it into the flashlight ring top. Screw the top back onto the flashlight. You now have a colored beam.

10. Repeat the previous steps to create other colors. If using very thin notebook covers, combine and pop into the ring top two inserts of different colors to create a unique colored beam.

Tips & Warnings

• Punch tiny holes into a blue colored insert to create a star patterned flashlight beam.
• Never leave a multicolored flashlight on for an extended period of time. Although most low-beam flashlights do not produce enough heat to burn plastic wrap or tissue paper, some high-beam and industrial or commercial models can create a fire hazard.