We've hosted Star Wars origami programs in the past, but this year, we decided to mix it up a little with new activities and special guests. We held our program on a Saturday afternoon as a one hour open-house style event, with no registration and no age limits. Here's what we did:
Words of wisdom:
Skip the printable take-homes. I brought these kind of as a back-up, in case we needed more time (thinking that we might do them during the program), but we were busy bees all hour long!
The lightsabers, yoda ears, and Chewbacca bookmarks are all inexpensive, 'tween-appropriate crafts, and littler kids can do them with the help of a grown-up. We had several volunteers for this event, and we stationed one at each craft area. This helped a lot!
- Created Chewbacca bookmarks out of construction paper using the printable templates found here.
- Made lightsabers using glow bracelets and black and gray tape (similar to these, substituting tape for the nail polish).
- Crafted Yoda ears out of paper; I used sentence strips from a classroom supply store for the band that goes around the head, and participants free-handed their ears on matching cardstock.
- Browsed a book display of Star Wars-themed materials.
- Took home Star Wars printables.
- Mingled with Darth Vader and his buddies! We connected with a local chapter of Vaders 1st 501st Legion through this website, and they were so much fun to work with!
My little storm trooper, Sophie, and my husband, Karl, got in on the action!
Skip the printable take-homes. I brought these kind of as a back-up, in case we needed more time (thinking that we might do them during the program), but we were busy bees all hour long!
The lightsabers, yoda ears, and Chewbacca bookmarks are all inexpensive, 'tween-appropriate crafts, and littler kids can do them with the help of a grown-up. We had several volunteers for this event, and we stationed one at each craft area. This helped a lot!
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