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lighthouses
 * Sarah Moorman **

 __The Finished Product__ 

Doesn't it look great!!! :)

I USED THESE ITEMS Assorted lengths and widths of wood blocks Red, Silver, and Gray spray paint Hand saw Nail Gun Hammer & Nails Caulk Small Light Bulb Small Glass Dome Sand Paper Paint Brush Black Paint Wires Light Switch Battery Miter Box  How-To  First collect all of your supplies. Then, measure and cut wood planks to the appropriate length. Cut the quarter round or shoe mold to the same length you did the planks. Use a nail gun or hammer and nails to attach the wood planks and quarter round. Sand it smooth. Then you start on the base. Get the thinner wood and cut to the length that you want, and connect all 4 of them to make a secondary base. Then you cut 4 more wood blocks a little longer than the first, connect them, and attach those to the first base. Then the base is done! Attach the base to the body of the light house and sand smooth. Then take 2 of the smaller planks and nail them across the top. Sand them. Spray paint the base gray with dark gray splatters. Spray the top ring white, and the body reddish-black. Do the fine detail painting with an artist paint brush to make it look like bricks. Screw in the fire alarm light. Cut the card board tube to the appropriate length, and glue it on. Glue the metal disk to the top of the tube, and glue the plastic tube to the top of that. Put the metal semi-circle on top of that and attach it with glue. Then you paste the rubber stopper to the top of that. Paint the two different types of tubes, the metal parts, and the rubber white. Attach the battery to the wires of the light and viola! You have a light house!  __Sarah Moorman’s Lighthouses__ Have you ever seen one of those big cylinder things standing on the shore with a light on top? The thing that you are seeing is actually a light house! Light houses are very helpful. So helpful in fact, that they have stayed around for thousands of years! They can come in a variety of shapes, but the most common and well-known is the cylinder. I hope that this presentation will enlighten you of the technology and history of the lighthouse. The first lighthouse was on the island of Pharos and it is known as the lighthouse of Alexandria. It is probably the most famous of all lighthouses! The sole purpose of the lighthouse is to warn sea men of land or danger. Ancient lighthouses were only little bonfires on the coast. Those bonfires were hard to see on the ground, so people decided to put them in a tall tower. Thousands of years later, electricity was invented, and we put giant light bulbs in those towers! Today these bulbs rotate. Older lighthouses still have oil lamps in them, and they work just fine! Can you imagine a world  without lighthouses? I mean, there were a lot more ship wrecks <span style="color: #ff00a0; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;"><span style="color: #ff00a0; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">without them! So, all in all, lighthouses make the world a better place. Without them, our harbors and ship canals would be dark and dreary! That would certainly put a damper on a perfect cruse mood! Lighthouses are definitely an important part of our lives, and current society.

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