After many hours of crinkling tin foil and burning my fingers on hot glue, I’ve completed the metal reflective foil tree which will support the EL wire “leaves”.
Unfortunately I ran out of hot glue sticks after construction of the tree and was unable to find the correct size at the local price chopper. I currently have over 30ft of EL wire to attach so that will be my next step. I have tested that it is all working and cut a board to spray paint glossy black for the base to emulate the surface that classmates liked during the proof of concept stage.
The following photos are with some of the EL wire arranged in the tree but not attached in any way.
I think that a reflective black ground will be a really good idea, and I also like that you are going to be hanging the different colored EL wire to symbolize the different seasons. One thing that I think would look really cool is if you hung the orange lights on the branches and on the ground to show that the leaves are starting to fall off.
I really love the way the color reflects off of the tin foil and I love your idea about using different colors for different seasons. I think using the cool white lights as snow would look really pretty and similar to Mariah’s idea with the leaves, you could have some on the ground to represent the snowfall!
You can get hot glue refills at Foisie! The makerspace has both sizes and if it doesnt fit your glue gun, you can borrow a hot glue gun too!
That’s really good to know! I had no idea