Abstract: A fiber optic lighting system suitable for signs such as road and highway signs as well as other commercial uses and which includes a plurality of fresnel lenses which are recessed within openings through the front of a housing and which are aligned in space relationship from the tips of a plurality of optical fibers that are positively aligned and secured within the housing using a plastic shield which ensures proper positioning of the optical fibers to locate light emitted from the fibers at the proper focal distance to the fresnel lenses.

Abstract: An educational kit for teaching and developing creative arts which includes changeable panel displays or pictures which are selectively light accented and animated using a plurality of optical fibers which are mounted within a frame or housing and which have free ends that may be specifically or randomly mounted within openings created in the panel display or picture so as to create a variety of changeable and visually perceived light forms or patterns and wherein the optical fibers have fixed ends which receive light emitted from a source which is also mounted within the frame.