Allow'due south make our favorite Star Wars characters out of toilet paper rolls!  This Star Wars arts and crafts is great for kids of all ages including older kids and all y'all need is some empty toilet paper rolls (or craft rolls), some mucilage and paint!

My girl and her friends are ALL most Star Wars at the moment, Princess Leia this,  Padme Amidala that! And then equally most of my crafting inspiration comes from the littles, I started tinkering with a few toilet rolls to see what Star Wars Crafts would emerge.

Star Wars Craft

Making R2-D2 from toilet roll was an obvious idea so I decided to craft on and make Princess Leia and everyone'south favorite Chewbacca too.

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Toilet Paper Roll Star Wars Characters Craft

The Star Wars characters are SO easy to make, just mucilage and paint really, proceed reading to come across how.

Supplies Needed to Make Prepare of Star Wars Pic Characters

  • Toilet curl cores/ paper tubes
  • Glue gun
  • Pencil
  • Acrylic paints and brushes
  • Two beads

Directions to Make Set of Star Wars Characters from Toilet Paper Rolls

Step 1 - toilet paper roll Star Wars Characters - cut a slit in the end of the craft roll to make it easy to create a top of the head
Permit'southward get the toilet paper curlicue fix to be a Star Wars graphic symbol!
Pace 1

Beginning slit the tops of the toilet or craft rolls as shown to create cardboard flaps that can exist folded over to take a top of the head for each of the Star Wars characters.

Step 2- toilet paper roll Star Wars Characters - fold over the top cardboard portions - flaps - of the craft tube end
Fold & glue time!
Step ii

Fold over and glue into position. I use a gum gun for *instant* agree results which makes it easier and faster…and you don't end up holding it for minutes waiting for the glue to dry out!

Step 3 - toilet paper roll Star Wars Characters - sketch and get ready to paint
Sketch the details for your Star Wars characters onto the toilet newspaper gyre.
Footstep 3

Paint the toilet roll cores with a coat of white pigment and allow to dry – if your arts and crafts rolls are already white, so skip this step.

Step 4

When the base coat of paint is dry, lightly sketch on the features of your picture show characters with a pencil onto the painted craft rolls.

And so merely start painting the colorful details of each grapheme…

Star Wars Craft - Chewbacca details - painted Chewbacca toilet paper roll finished craft
Don't forget Chewbaccas scary sash!
Chewbacca Character

Chewie is a favorite because he is loyal and brave while yet a lilliputian huggable.  The details that you tin paint to requite him that obvious Chewbacca look:

  • Hairy exterior – I used scattered castor strokes for this
  • Hair effectually eyes – in this case, they are almost centre lashes, but give that feeling of hair around the eyes
  • Chewie'due south teeth
  • Chewbacca's distint nose shape
  • Leather sash with metal
Star Wars Craft - Princess Leia - this is how you make the buns on either side of Princess Leias head for hair
Await how easy information technology is to make Princess Leia'due south signature hairstyle!
Princess Leia Character

For Princess Leia's hair buns I simply glued beads onto each side of her head and painted them the same brown color as I had mixed up for her pilus.  I left her with less item because the hair is then distinctive and just gave her a necklace.

R2D2 Character

For R2D2 the painted details were more about portraying a serial of buttons and panels.  When you look at R2D2, you see a white body and bluish accents.  Even though my shade of blue is different than the picture show character (a picayune brighter), it is obvious what grapheme it is!

Star Wars Crafts shown finished - Chewbacca, Princess Leia and R2D2
Look how fun our favorite Star Wars characters turned out!

Continue painting effectually the pencil guidelines on each roll and very speedily the kids will end upwards with a full set of fun characters to human activity out whatever wild and wonderful Star Wars scenes across your living room floor!

Use this as a really good way to experiment.  You can run into that but a few key details can exist enough.

Keep going to include C-3PO, Jedi masters and even the ugly Jabba The Hutt!

Active Time thirty minutes

Total Fourth dimension thirty minutes

Difficulty Medium

Estimated Price $0

Materials

  • Toilet roll cores/ paper tubes
  • Acrylic paints
  • Two beads

Tools

  • Glue gun
  • Pencil
  • Paint brushes

Instructions

  1. Cut slits in the summit of a craft curlicue, fold over and glue in identify to seal off one end of the gyre creating a top of the character's head.
  2. Paint the toilet roll a base of operations layer of white paint and allow to dry.
  3. Sketch the details of the Star Wars grapheme you are creating with a pencil.
  4. Start painting along the sketched lines.
  5. For Princess Leia, gum a dewdrop on either side of her head and paint the same brown colour as her hair to make her signature hairstyle.
  6. Experiment and have fun!

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Did you have fun making paper Star Wars characters?  How did your toilet roll Chewbacca, Princess Leia and R2D2 plough out?

Michelle McInerney, an Irish based graphic designer and mum of one, is the craft designer behind laurels winning blog MollyMooCrafts.com - a fun and colorful online world of unique and cute crafts for children and their parents.

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