If you’re looking for a beginner project appropriate for young makers, here’s a great one. The project shows you how tomato a flashlight wristwrap! From karengertrude via Instructables:
Flashlight wristwrap – it’s a great first project! You will learn how to enable the flow of electricity, and add small electronic components to your simple circuit correctly. This tutorial will include a few bite-size lessons on electronic components, and how they work. Head on in!
The electric component of this project is really what makes it fun. I got these parts at Radio Shack (that irreplaceable store that’s closing :(….), Home Depot, and Adafruit (adafruit.com is only online). Go D.I.Y.!!