Art Project #3: Star Wars Crafts and Fun

I just HAD to come up with some fun Star Wars themed crafts for May the 4th day. 

Seriously, it's treated like a national holiday around our house and knowing that we wanted to keep up with our 100 Days of Art Challenge I knew I needed some fun Star Wars arts and crafts projects.

My sons were just talking about watching the third Star Wars movie last night (Revenge of the Sith) and my husband mentioned that May the 4th was today.

My kids looked to me all excited and with expectant faces and asked what we were doing to celebrate Star Wars day.

I had nothing planned!

So I sat at the computer and started planning.

With a quick trip to the dollar store and the grocery store this morning we were all set to go.

The boys had some fun with some Star Wars mazes, Star Wars word searches, rhyming pages, alphabetizing pages and even a word scramble and a mystery coloring math BB8 page for the older boys.  They found our Star Wars Mad Libs and told me that even though we had just used Mad Libs on Monday they HAD to use them again!  It was Star Wars Day!

But the best parts of our day were all the fun Star Wars crafts we came up with!

We started on all our crafts right after lunch: which was a BB8 pizza!  

We shaped the dough into a circle; added a half circle of dough on top.  Layered sauce and cheese over the whole thing and used pepperoni for BB8's circles.  A slice of tomato or a slice of a sweet orange pepper would work really well too!  We used some olives for his black spots and a half of a meatball for his eye spot.  He sure was yummy!

After lunch we started making Light Saber glow jars.  

We found excellent instructions at Little Bins for Little Hands.  We found VOS water bottles at our grocery store for $1.59 each and knowing that I only needed three bottles plus some glow sticks I thought this was a pretty cheap craft!

• The boys drank a small portion of the water because they were really curious as to what it would taste like (according to them it tasted just like water). They then added some clear glue to the water.  We used small bottles of clear glue and they each put about 1/3 of the bottle into their water.  
• They added some liquid watercolors or food coloring until they got the desired color they wanted.
• They added some clear glitter and then we put the cap back on and shook them up. 
• We used some duct tape and electrical tape to make light saber type handles and finally added two cracked glow sticks inside.  We kept our bottles open at the end so we can keep changing out glow sticks but I warned the boys to keep them handle side up when they're putting them down somewhere so we don't have to worry about water leaking out everywhere. 

Adding clear glue

Adding coloring 

adding glitter 

Our completed jars 

Once all of their glow jars were done we moved right into making Galaxy Jars. 

We had bought some canning jars at the dollar store (but any jars with screw on lids would work!).  We followed the instructions found at Momdot; and these were also so simple to make!

• Each boy filled his jar 1/3 of the way with water and added some paint.  We shook up the jars to mix up the water and then they added in some glitter.  
• We fluffed up some cotton balls and added enough cotton to equal the line of water.  
• Then they added another 1/3 of water, a new color of paint, and some more glitter.  We, once again filled with fluffed up cotton.
• The boys finished off the jars with a last bit of water, a third color of paint, some more glitter and enough cotton to reach the lip of the jar.
• We screwed the lids on nice and tight and cleaned up the jars.  

They just love their jars!

adding glitter 

adding cotton balls 

adding the second layer 

Our completed jars 

We moved onto a fun edible craft next.  

Using some cookies and some frosting the boys created their own droids.  I put out an assortment of cookies and told the boys they could make any kind of droid they wanted; R2D2, BB8, C3PO, anything was fine. 

They really got into them and used candy for buttons and lights too.  

The best part?  Eating them when they were all done, of course!

Getting their cookies 

Assembling his droid 

Alec's completed droid (on a hover board)

Evan's completed droid 

The boys blew up some balloons and spent a fun portion of the afternoon trying to keep their balloons in the air using swords and toy light sabers.  They had me time them to see who could keep their balloon in the air the longest and how long they could keep the game going. 

We ended our day making light sabers out of Loom bands.  

We found this great video to follow and both Alec and Evan sat together and worked on making their own version; I must say that theirs are much more colorful!  

Watching the video; hard at work 

Their completed sabers 

Others in this series: 

Project 1: Painting with Hexbugs

Project 2: Tissue paper flowers

Project 3: Star Wars Crafts

Project 4: Watercolor compass circles

Project 5: Floral pens

Project 6: Watercolor outlines

Project 7: Scratch art jellyfish

Project 8: Oil pastel flowers
Project 9: Fingerprint dandelions 
Project 10: Beaded Sun Catchers
Project 11: Bird crafts and snacks
Project 12: Symmetrical, color mixing, butterflies

Project 13: Water gun art

Project 14: Watercolor Kits

Project 15: Dragonfly Silhouettes 

Project 16: Painting pet rocks 

Project 17: Spray Paint Resist

Project 18: Water bottle windsock

Project 19: Stained glass made easy crafting kit 

Project 20: Tin can windsock 

Project 21: Firework glue art
Project 22: Qixel art kit

Project 23: Makit Bakit Kits 
Project 24: Wood burning cutting board

Project 25: Making our own rafts 

Project 26: Spray Painted Canvas

Project 27: Paper bowl jellyfish 

Project 28: Tin Foil Art

Project 29: Oil Pastel Bubbles 

Project 30: Chalk Pastel painting 

Project 31: Washi Tape Votive holders 

Project 32: Drip Painted Pots

Project 33: Sun Art 

Project 34: Tissue paper transfer 

Project 35: Stained Glass dragonfly

Project 36: Art Museum field trip. 

Project 37: Taking a Family Art Class

Project 38: Painting Minecraft T-Shirts

Project 39: Painting Pikachu 

Project 40: How to Draw Books

Project 41: Wax resist Watercolors

Project 42: Splatter Paint Canvas

Project 43: Fine line fall leaves 

Project 44: Fairy Village field trip

Project 45: Oil Pastel Resist Leaves

Project 46: Tissue Paper Leaf Art

Project 47: Bat Silhouette Painting 

Project 48: Beginner Photography

Project 49: Making Harry Potter Wands

Project 50: Drawing Cat Faces 

Project 51: Making Homemade cards

Project 52:  Learning the Art of Zentangle

Project 53: 3-D printing 

Project 54: Gingerbread Train

Project 55: Paint Swirled Ornaments 

Project 56: Loom band ornaments and bracelets 

Project 57: Candy trees 

Project 58: Strand of light chalk drawings

Projects 59-64: Christmas Crafting Kits from Oriental Trading

Project 65: Painting Ceramic Village Pieces 

Project 66: Washi Tape Cookie Cutter Ornaments
Project 67: Learning Origami 
Project 68: Art Books and Artist Study
Project 69: Playing Go Fish Art
Project 70: Edible Chocolate Art
Project 71: Geometric Hearts 
Project 72: Marble Swirled Hearts
Project 73: Solid Tempera Paint Drawings
Project 74: Qixels 3-D Maker
Project 75: Making Cupcakes
Project 76: Window Marker Art
Project 77: Shamrock Zentangles on Scratch Paper
Project 78: Painted Pandas 
Project 79: Minecraft Digital Art
Project 80: Charcoal Drawings
Project 81: Chalk Pastel Lighthouse Drawings
Project 82: Dying Easter Eggs With Bleeding Tissue Paper
Project 83: Painting Pottery
Project 84: Drawing En Plein Air
Project 85: African Savannah Paintings
Project 86: Woven CD Garden Decoration
Project 87: Working with Clay
Project 88: Art Lessons with Art Academy
Project 89: Melted Bead Wind Chimes
Project 90: Perler Bead Projects
Project 91: Ivory Soap Carvings
Project 92: Ice Cube Tie Dye
Project 93: String Art
Project 94: Multimedia Ocean Paintings 
Project 95: Balloon Splatter Painting
Project 96: Making Mosaic Stepping Stones
Project 97: Glass Bead and Glue Sun Catchers 
Project 98: Coloring Book Art
Project 99: Metal Stamped Bookmarks

Project 100: Water Balloon Art