Star Wars Lightsabers
Things change quickly with kids. Just when you think they're so into something that will never end, it gets replaced by a new interest. It might be because of a movie they watch, a video game, or just what is trending with their friends and youtube.
Most recently, the interest in my house is about Star Wars. All six of the movies. Since we do lots of projects with paper and cardboard, we decided to try lightsabers. We were waiting till we could get our hands on some store bought FX lightsabers made by Hasbro, but it's more fun to make your own!
Originally we did a search for paper models to find some good lightsaber hilts. The one we found that looked really good was waay too complicated to make.
So instead we made our own.
We started with cardboard rolls from paper towels.
We built up the shape with cardboard, taping everything down with masking tape.
The next thing we did was cover it with electrical tape. The electrical tape stretches a bit over the shapes holding it all together. It is nice and grippy too. To finish it off we painted in some details with acrylic paint.
We had hours of fun!
The only thing stopping us from making more is that we used all of the grey electrical tape!
These are a few of the different models that we made over a period of a couple of weeks.
The next thing is to get the 'blade'.
We used PVC electrical or plumbing pipe. We happened to have some pipes around to try and see what size we needed to buy. We needed it to fit really tightly since we planned on actually swinging these around. To get it as tight as possible we wrapped the portion that fits into the handle with tape - and cardboard. We slid it in about six inches.
Then we wrapped the pipes with colored electrical tape.
These things are indestructible!!
It has been another adventure with the never-ending things to make out of cardboard and paper. We made sleek black stands to show off the saber hilts as well.
Check back here in the summer for more ideas!!
Things change quickly with kids. Just when you think they're so into something that will never end, it gets replaced by a new interest. It might be because of a movie they watch, a video game, or just what is trending with their friends and youtube.
Most recently, the interest in my house is about Star Wars. All six of the movies. Since we do lots of projects with paper and cardboard, we decided to try lightsabers. We were waiting till we could get our hands on some store bought FX lightsabers made by Hasbro, but it's more fun to make your own!
Originally we did a search for paper models to find some good lightsaber hilts. The one we found that looked really good was waay too complicated to make.
So instead we made our own.
We started with cardboard rolls from paper towels.
We built up the shape with cardboard, taping everything down with masking tape.
The next thing we did was cover it with electrical tape. The electrical tape stretches a bit over the shapes holding it all together. It is nice and grippy too. To finish it off we painted in some details with acrylic paint.
We had hours of fun!
The only thing stopping us from making more is that we used all of the grey electrical tape!
These are a few of the different models that we made over a period of a couple of weeks.
The next thing is to get the 'blade'.
We used PVC electrical or plumbing pipe. We happened to have some pipes around to try and see what size we needed to buy. We needed it to fit really tightly since we planned on actually swinging these around. To get it as tight as possible we wrapped the portion that fits into the handle with tape - and cardboard. We slid it in about six inches.
Then we wrapped the pipes with colored electrical tape.
These things are indestructible!!
It has been another adventure with the never-ending things to make out of cardboard and paper. We made sleek black stands to show off the saber hilts as well.
Check back here in the summer for more ideas!!
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