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These Star Wars STEM activities include 25 must-try science, technology, engineering, and math activities for kids.

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Easy and fun Star Wars Science experiment for Star War enthusiasts. Defy Gravity with magnets and paper clips.

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This Star Wars String Art is one of a series of Star Wars Crafts that I will be sharing, so stay tuned & ENJOY! If you follow me on social media, you know that I have been in the throes of planning and executing crafts for over 200 kids for our church's amazing Light Force VBS this summer. This is my fourth summer leading crafts and every year is SO MUCH FUN! I love seeing the joy of the children as they learn about Jesus, find love and acceptance in the church, and do a little crafting (amongst lots of

Kids can play & learn with their favorite characters with these Star Wars STEM activities.

Ready to see part of what John and I've been working on the past few weeks? Not the whole thing, of course, but at least a little of it? SWEET. First pretend you didn't read that post title for a sec. You know, so you'll be surprised. Ahem hem hem. BB-8!! As you can see, this BB's been through a scrap or two. Never fear though, he's a tough little droid and will have a lively conversation with you if prompted. There's much more to our Project, but I thought BB-8 would be a fun partial reveal for now. Especially since he can be made separately! I'll warn you, our BB-8 doesn't roll; he's a static model. He's also not 3D printed - a rarity in the BB-8 building community - nor is his body made from a large acrylic lampshade globe, since those cost around $130 each. o.0 In fact, our droid is made entirely from common materials, and only cost around $50 to make, since we already had some things on hand. That's right, fifty bucks! Here, let me walk you through it. First you'll need one large exercise ball, inflated to about 20 inches, and one smaller ball at around 10 inches. (You can find both sizes at Walmart.) Stick them in large bowls so they won't roll away: Make sure the air hole for each ball is on the BOTTOM, so it's still accessible later. Carefully cover both balls (the urge to make jokes here is strong, y'all) with a single layer of cling wrap: Make the wrap as smooth as possible, without too many bunches. The wrap will allow you to remove the balls later. Next apply 4 - 5 coats of paper maché on both balls. For the head you only need to cover a little more than halfway down. It's up to you how much of the body to cover, though, since you can always leave a hole to be covered by the head later. Err on the side of covering more, though; you can always trim it later. That's no moon. Once all your paper maché is applied and dry (this took 2-3 days), it's time to move outside for a much smellier application: BONDO. Bondo is great for this because it's spreadable, fast-curing, and surprisingly flexible, so you don't have to worry about chipping later. It's also readily available at Walmart for about $15/gallon. SCORE. (One gallon is plenty.) Apply a healthy coat of Bondo, spreading it as evenly as possible with a plastic smoothing spatula. It won't be super smooth (see above), but no worries; next, we sand! A palm sander is great for this, but elbow grease works, too. Repeat with more Bondo as needed if there are any patches of paper mache showing through, or until you reach your desired thickness. (John did two coats.) Once that's cured and sanded you can deflate & remove both balls. Trim the edges of both the head and body so they're even & perfect circles. BB-8 has a metal band on his head, which John fashioned from flexible aluminum stacked on a wooden ring: You can find the aluminum at any hardware store, and the wood can be substituted with EVA foam if you don't have power tools to cut it. It's not a perfect fit, but close enough: Later John added a thick ring of EVA foam under the wooden ring to make BB's "neck" - that angled section under his head. Note: You can stack 6mm craft foam to make thicker pieces; no need to buy a whole roll of EVA. Once both the head and body are as smooth as they're going to get, it's time to break out the compass and start drawing in the many, MANY details: Print out as many reference photos as you can, and use a compass for all the circles and curves - it's a life saver. BB-8 is one of those things that seems simple until you stop to really look at it, at which point you sit down and cry a little, because HOLY COMPLICATED, BATMAN. I joined the BB-8 Builder's Club online for a little guidance, and happily they have a file of BB's body design you can download. We printed off all six sections and used them for templates: Now comes the really tedious part - or at least the NEXT tedious part in a long line of tedium, ha. Get out your Dremel with the small pumpkin-carving bit, and go over every. single. line. I'll warn you now: your lines are going to look terrible. They'll be wobbly and jagged and though practice helps a little, the fact is they're never going to be perfect. But it's OK, I promise. It's not just you; everyone's lines look bad. The good news is it won't matter in the end, so just keep going. Take breaks to shake out your hand, though, because you WILL have a frozen crampy claw after a while. I spread this step out over two nights. Once all your lines are Dremeled, it's time to prime. You can use buildable/sandable primer and sand some more if you'd like to get that texture a little smoother: Or just use any white primer to lay down a nice base for the rest of the paint. This will be the final coat for the white color, so make it a nice one - nothing too gray. Here you can see BB-8's neck ring, which I covered with random foam squares to simulate all the doo-dads under his head: Pay no attention to BB-8's body cut in half over there. I said pay no attention!! And now... WE PAINT. I used a metallic silver craft paint for the gray sections, and more cheap craft paint for the orange - though we custom-mixed our own shade. I watered down both colors slightly and applied them with the softest brush I could find to minimize brush strokes. I'll warn you now, your BB-8 is NOT going to look good at this point. The wonky lines will be all in your face, taunting and yelling about how you're a no-talented, 2-bit hack. Ignore them. This is gonna work out, I promise. Look at me, waving these virtual pom-poms. You got this. For BB-8's eye you'll need one of those plastic Christmas balls that come in 2 pieces from the craft store, plus some thin black craft foam. Some builders dye the eye cover black, others don't - it's up to you. We chose to dye ours using Polyster fabric dye. It didn't work very well (ours came out splotchy), but it DID work. I'm sorry I don't have a template to share for his eye surround, because John just "winged it." He's talented like that. Yes, it's annoying. If you want the eye to light up (which it should), poke a single red LED through the back side of the foam, then tape on a button cell battery. BAM. BB-8 is alive! There's another piece on BB-8's face that's much harder to build - I think it's his holo-projector? After some experimenting John went with a small routed piece of wood topped with a blue glass gem and more craft foam: John made tiny slashes in the foam to make that beaded texture around the marble. So smart. Note: Instead of wood you could form that rounded base from paper clay, or even more craft foam, which rounds nicely when heated. I did the paint job to simulate the raised panels, and I'm not all that pleased with it. Still, when it's lit up and back a ways it gets the job done. Here are both on the head: For the antennas John headed over to SkyCraft, our favorite local electronics junk shop, and found two options he then covered in heat shrink tubing: You can always use painted wooden dowels though, and sand the tips to they're rounded. Drill holes in BB's head, poke 'em through, and glue down from the inside. In that photo you can see I've started outlining the panels with a thin brownish-gray paint. This is where the magic starts to happen, peeps. Get that paint inside all your Dremeled lines, then spray the whole droid with a layer of satin lacquer to lock it in. (Without sealing you could re-wet the paint in the next step. That would be bad.) Make sure it's a satin spray, so BB-8 will have a nice metallic sheen. Now the fun part: AGING. Get a larger stipple brush and a rag, and concentrate your aging on the seam lines. This helps camouflage the wonky lines, and also looks more believable, since dirt would accumulate there anyway. I find the best dirt color is a mix of gray and rusty brown, but have some areas of both colors for variation. EXTREME ZOOM. You can make BB-8 as clean or as dirty as you like, but given this is NOT a 3D printed version, I recommend some hefty aging to disguise any texture issues. Do leave some white areas, though, so you have nice contrast. If he's evenly coated all over he'll actually look LESS dirty, and won't "pop" on camera. Now I'm going to tell you a sad tale with an OK ending. Ready? At this point disaster struck. John was moving something late one night while in a hurry, and BB-8's completed head (as seen above) fell six feet onto the hardwood floor, breaking badly. (HE WAS THE ONE WHO KNOCKED... his head.) BB's projector nozzle thingy hit hardest, resulting in several large raised cracks across the front of his face. It was somber time in the Yates' household, y'all. WEEKS of work, shattered in half a second. But after a moment of stunned silence we got out the superglue, fixed what we could, and set about turning lemons into lemonade. Now our BB-8 has some pretty badass scars, if I do say so myself. Instead of trying to hide what couldn't be hidden, I sealed and then emphasized some of the damage - even adding a few more cracks, in fact, so it would look intentional. The rest I hid as best I could under more layers of grime. I'm most proud of the brownish "dirt" smear in the extreme upper right here: That's actually another crack - can you tell? And hey, since we wanted a battle-worn BB-8 anyway, I think it all worked out. At least now we'll always know which one is ours! :D It's intentionally subtle, but we do have 3 lit elements in BB-8's head: His projector has a dim blue LED, and the little circle under his eye is lit with a frosted piece of acrylic. (Pro tip: sanding clear plastic "frosts" it.) If electronics scare you, though, just go with the single red eye; it's by far the most important. Our BB-8 also "talks" and can swivel to look at you, but those elements will have to wait for next time. Again, our Project is still a work-in-progress, but we're hoping to debut it at Star Wars Celebration, so you don't have much longer to wait! (And we don't have much longer to finish! Eek!) And since I was curious myself, here's an approximate cost breakdown. Again, we had some of this already, but assuming you need to buy EVERYTHING here's an estimate: Exercise balls: $15 Paper maché materials (newspaper, flour): $5 Misc: (Aluminum trim, scrap wood, craft foam, antennas) $15 Bondo, 1 gallon: $15 Craft paint: $5 Christmas Ball: $1 Spray lacquer: $7 Spray primer: $5 LEDs, wire, button cell batteries: $10 Total Cost: $78 Hope you guys enjoyed the virtual walk-through! I know this wasn't a complete tutorial, so feel free to ask questions in the comments. And as always, if you make your own PLEASE share over on Facebook; I wanna see! *** Want to see ALL of my tutorials and project build in one place? Then head over to the Craft Page!

STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) activities are very popular right now. Since Star Wars is a science fiction movie, it make...

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Kids can play & learn with their favorite characters with these Star Wars STEM activities.

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Here is a fun Star Wars craft for kids that you probably have all the materials for. Make an X-Wing Starfighter out of office supplies! Aidan and I saw this idea on Instructables and thought it was so fun! We added duct tape to make ours look more like the real X-Wing. To make one, […]

These Star Wars STEM activities include 25 must-try science, technology, engineering, and math activities for kids.

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STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) activities are very popular right now. Since Star Wars is a science fiction movie, it make...

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