A couple of days ago in art class we made multicolored "topographical maps".

Here is a list of what I used for mine,

• pieces of hard foam,
• 2 orange sheets of paper,
• 1 dark blue sheet of paper,
• 1 bright blue sheet of paper, and
• 1 yellow sheet of paper

What I did first was draw my shape that I wanted to start with and cut it out. Then I drew it again but bigger, and I kept doing this until I had nine levels. After everything was cut out I got some small pieces of foam, and starting with the largest pieces I glued them together with 4 or more pieces of foam gluing the biggest pieces first and progressing to the smaller pieces.
Here the result:

Here is the side view:

It is kind of like a pressure switch because when you press on the top it clicks down but when you release it then it pops back up.
My dad also suggested that I could make it into a real pressure switch by layering the bottom in Aluminum foil, and using a dulled thumb tack facing down, inserted through the top layers. When you press the top it makes contact and if you have wires connected to a battery it would complete the circuit. Cool!, huh!??

If you are interested you can try making one yourself its very simple.

Please upvote and comment if you have any questions.

Thank you for reading this post!

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