Craft Time: Star Tours Starspeeder 1000 Papercraft

Star Tours Starspeeder 1000 PDF

Time: 20 Minutes

What You’ll Need

• Regular paper or cardstock
• Scissors
• Glue or double-sided tape

How To Make It

1. Print the speeder template and cut out the pieces. Make all folds along the dashed lines. Note: The folds adjacent to the #4 and #11 panels should be made toward you.
2. Using glue or double-sided tape, attach all tabs to their corresponding pieces in numerical order, starting with the starboard side and bottom. Note: The #1 tabs should be secured to the panel between them. The design on the #4 panel will line up with the design at the back of the speeder.
3. On the roof and port side, secure the #8 tabs to the panel between them, then begin attaching the port side to the bottom with tabs #9 and #10. The design on the #11 panel will line up with the design at the back of the speeder (opposite the #4 panel). Continue to attach the two pieces by securing the tabs in numerical order.
4. Secure all hyperdrive tabs numbered 1-4 to their corresponding sides. Make sure all outer tabs along the hyperdrive are folded underneath the piece, and use those tabs to secure the hyperdrive to the speeder. The back of the hyperdrive should be placed so that it is flush with the back of the speeder.
5. Fold the solar array fin in half so the design is two-sided, then secure with glue or double-sided tape. Do not stick the tabs together. Butterfly the tabs outward, and use them to attach the fin to the tip of the hyperdrive and the roof of the speeder.
6. Fold the droid in half so the design is two-sided, then secure with glue or double-sided tape. Do not stick the tabs together. Butterfly the tabs outward, and use them to attach the droid to the roof of the speeder where indicated.

Notes

Cutting should be done by an adult.

Craft Time: R2-D2 Papercraft

R2-D2 Papercraft PDF

Time: 20 Minutes

What You’ll Need

• Regular paper or cardstock
• Scissors
• Glue or double-sided tape

How To Make It

1. Print the template on regular paper or cardstock and cut out the pieces. Make all folds along the dashed lines.
2. Using glue or double-sided tape, secure the tabs on the dome top to the inner circle of the main dome. Close the dome with the #1 tab.
3. Secure all #2 tabs at the top of R2-D2’s body to their corresponding pieces.
4. Begin attaching the dome to the top of R2-D2’s body by securing the #3 tabs. Start with the tab closest to R2-D2’s dome projector, and attach it to the panel adjacent to the #4 tab at the top of R2-D2’s body. Continue attaching the dome by following the contour of the body.
5. Close the top of R2-D2’s body with the #4 tab. Continue to close the body with the #5 tab, followed by all #6 tabs. Cap the bottom of R2-D2 with the bottom piece by attaching it to the remaining tabs.
6. Secure tabs numbered 7-12 to their corresponding pieces on the inside of the right leg. Begin attaching the outside of the leg to the inside of the leg by securing tabs in numerical order, starting with the #13 tabs around the shoulder. Repeat this step with the left leg.
7. Close the center leg by securing tabs in numerical order, starting with the #20 tabs.
8. When the center leg is complete, attach it to the bottom of R2-D2. If done correctly, R2-D2 should lean slightly backwards when standing.
9. Secure the left and right legs by aligning the letter at the inside of each leg with the letters on R2-D2’s body. R2-D2 should now stand on his own.
10. If you want extra detail, you can add the three optical holographic projectors provided. These should be placed on each of three matching markers, one of which is at the top of the dome. To assemble (Fig. 1), fold the piece in half along the dashed line between the gray and black panels, then secure the two panels with glue or double-sided tape. Wrap the piece around the black circle, and secure with the end tab. Attach the tab on the circle to the inner wall of the projector. The black circle should be used to attach each projector to R2-D2 where indicated.

Notes

Cutting should be done by an adult.

Craft Time: Pluto Cutie Easter Egg

Pluto Cutie Easter Egg Template PDF

Time: 1 Hour

What You’ll Need

• Hardboiled brown egg (or wooden egg painted golden brown)
• Ruler
• Scissors
• Cardstock (beige or golden brown, white, and black)
• Stapler
• Pencil
• Black permanent marker
• Glue dots
• Scrap of green craft paper

How To Make It

1. Roll an 8.5- by 2-inch piece of beige or golden brown cardstock into a tube, making the diameter just wide enough for the narrower end of the egg to nestle in. Staple the tube where the paper overlaps. Pencil simple lines on the front of the tube to depict Pluto’s chest, legs, and paws and then trace over the lines with black marker.

2. Pencil a wide V-shape line on the upper egg. Trace over the line with marker. Set the egg atop the tube.Print the template on white cardstock and cut out the pieces. Use the muzzle piece to cut out the same shape from beige or golden brown cardstock. Glue the nose onto the muzzle and then draw on a mouth. Glue the muzzle to the bottom of the eye piece.
3. Glue the eye portion of the assembled face to the front of the egg, but leave the muzzle free to overlap the outer tube slightly.

4. Use the ear template piece to cut out a pair of Pluto ears from black cardstock. Fold the ear tabs, as shown, and glue them to the sides of the egg.
5. Finally, glue a thin strip of green craft paper around the tube for Pluto’s collar.

Notes

Cutting should be done by an adult.

Craft Time: Minnie Mouse Cutie Easter Egg

Minnie Mouse Cutie Easter Egg Template PDF

Time: 1 Hour

What You’ll Need

• Hardboiled white egg (or wooden egg), painted black
• Ruler
• Scissors
• Cardboard tissue tube (1 1/2 inches or so in diameter)
• Black craft paint and paintbrush
• Strip of pink polka-dot craft paper (1 1/2- by 5-inches)*
• Glue dots
• Cardstock, black and white
• Tiny flower sticker

How To Make It

1. Cut a 2-inch section from the cardboard tissue tube, paint it black, and let it to dry. Note: Another option is to make your own tube by rolling up and stapling a strip of black cardstock.

2. For Minnie’s dress, wrap the pink polka-dot craft paper around the bottom of the tube and glue the ends together to hold them in place.
3. Place the painted egg atop the tube, with the narrower end down. Then print the template on a sheet of white cardstock. Cut out the Minnie face and use glue dots to stick the upper portion to the front of the egg, but allow the chin to extend slightly over the outer tube.

4. Use the ear template piece to cut out a pair of Minnie ears from black cardstock. Fold the ear tabs, as shown, and glue them to the top of the egg so that the ears stand upright.
5. Cut out the hat template piece and attach the sticker flower to it. Glue the hat in place to the side of one ear.

Notes

* If you can’t find polka-dot paper, you can make your own by using a pencil eraser dipped in craft paint to stamp white dots on plain pink paper.

Cutting should be done by an adult.

Craft Time: Mickey Mouse Cutie Easter Egg

Mickey Mouse Cutie Easter Egg Template PDF

Time: 1 Hour

What You’ll Need

• Hardboiled white egg (or wooden egg), painted black
• Ruler
• Scissors
• Cardboard tissue tube (1 1/2 inches or so in diameter)
• Black craft paint and paintbrush
• Strip of red craft paper (1 1/2 – by 5-inches)
• 2 small white buttons (about 3/8 inch in diameter)
• Glue dots
• Cardstock, black and white

How To Make It

1. Cut a 2-inch section from the cardboard tissue tube, paint it black, and let it to dry. Note: Another option is to make your own tube by rolling up and stapling a strip of black cardstock.

2. For Mickey’s shorts, wrap the red craft paper around the bottom of the tube and glue the ends together to hold them in place. Glue the white buttons to the front of the shorts.
3. Place the painted egg atop the tube, with the narrower end down. Then print the template on a sheet of white cardstock. Cut out the Mickey face and use glue dots to stick the upper portion to the front of the egg, but allow the chin to extend slightly over the outer tube.

4. For the finishing touch, use the ear template piece to cut out a pair of Mickey ears from black cardstock. Fold the ear tabs, as shown, and glue them to the top of the egg so that the ears stand upright.

Notes

Cutting should be done by an adult.

Craft Time: Goofy Easter Egg Cutie

Goofy Cutie Easter Egg Template PDF

Time: 1 Hour

What You’ll Need

• Hardboiled white egg (or wooden egg), painted black
• Ruler
• Scissors
• Cardstock (white, light orange or tan, and black)
• Stapler
• Craft paper (blue and purple)
• Glue dots
• Wooden candle cup, about 1 1/2 inch tall, (sold in craft stores)
• Green craft paint and paintbrush
• Three short strands of black string or yarn

How To Make It

1. Roll an 8 1/2- by 2-inch piece of beige or golden brown cardstock into a tube, making the diameter just wide enough for the narrower end of the egg to nestle in. Staple the tube where the paper overlaps. Wrap the lower tube with blue paper for Goofy’s pants. Then wrap a purple strip of paper three quarters of the way around the upper tube for a vest.
2. Set the egg atop the tube. Print the template on white cardstock and cut out the pieces. Use the muzzle piece to cut out the same shape from light orange or tan cardstock. Glue the nose onto the muzzle and then draw on a mouth. Glue the muzzle to the bottom of the eye piece.
3. Glue the eye portion of the assembled face piece to the front of the egg, but leave the muzzle free to overlap the outer tube slightly.

4. Use the ear template piece to cut out a pair of Goofy ears from black cardstock. Fold the ear tabs, as shown, and glue them to the sides of the egg.

5. For Goofy’s hat, turn the wooden candle cup upside down and paint it green. Glue a thin strip of black cardstock around the bottom of the hat. Gather the strands of string or yarn in a bunch, knot them together at one end, and then stick the knot to the inside of the hat with a glue dot. Stick the hat in place atop the egg with the loose string ends sticking out.

Notes

Cutting should be done by an adult.

Craft Time: Mickey Mouse Easter Cutie

Mickey Mouse Easter Cutie Papercraft PDF

Time: 15 Minutes

What You’ll Need

• Regular paper or cardstock
• Scissors
• Glue or double-sided tape

How To Make It

1. Print on regular paper or cardstock and cut out all of the pieces. Do not cut along the dashed lines — this is where you will fold the paper.
2. With the design facing you, make all of the vertical folds on Mickey’s shorts away from you. Close the shorts by gluing tab A to the inside of the design.
3. Fold the bottom of Mickey’s shorts outward, his feet down, and his tail up.
4. Fold the top of the shorts like a box and tuck the tab inside.
5. Fold the head in half and secure so the design is two-sided. Make sure the pieces are lined up evenly before the glue dries. Insert the neck into the top of the shorts where you folded the top closed.
6. Fold each arm in half and secure so the design is two-sided. Do not get glue on the tabs on the ends of the arms. Fold those outward and use them as a base to attach the arms to the sides of the body. Glue the arms to Mickey.
7. Glue the Easter basket to one of Mickey’s hands and your cutie is finished!

Notes

Cutting should be done by an adult.

Craft Time: Minnie Mouse Easter Cutie

Minnie Mouse Easter Cutie Papercraft PDF

Time: 15 Minutes

What You’ll Need

• Regular paper or cardstock
• Scissors
• Glue or double-sided tape

How To Make It

1. Print on regular paper or cardstock and cut out all of the pieces. Do not cut along the dashed lines — this is where you will fold the paper.
2. With the design facing you, make all of the vertical folds on Minnie’s skirt away from you. Close the skirt by gluing tab A to the inside of the design.
3. Fold the bottom of Minnie’s skirt outward, her feet down, and her tail up.
4. Fold the top of the skirt like a box and tuck the tab inside.
5. Fold the head in half and secure so the design is two-sided. Make sure the pieces are lined up evenly before the glue dries. Insert the neck into the top of the skirt where you folded the top closed.
6. Fold each arm in half and secure so the design is two-sided. Do not get glue on the tabs on the ends of the arms. Fold those outward and use them as a base to attach the arms to the sides of the body. Glue the arms to Minnie.
7. Glue the tulips to one of Minnie’s hands and your cutie is finished!

Notes

Cutting should be done by an adult.

Craft Time: Kermit Easter Egg

Kermit Easter Egg Template PDF

Time: 1 Hour

What You’ll Need

• Wooden egg
• Small piece of a soft craft sponge
• Medium green acrylic craft paint
• Scissors
• Cardboard tissue tube
• Glue sealer, such as Mod Podge, and a soft paintbrush for applying it
• Craft paper (red, pink, light green)
• Tacky glue and small stiff paintbrush or wooden toothpick to apply it
• Ruler
• Pencil
• Black fine-tipped permanent marker

How To Make It

1. Sponge-paint the egg medium green, and then set it aside to dry. (Tip: A piece of rolled scrap paper secured with a staple or tape, makes a handy stand to set the egg on while the paint dries.)
2. Cut a 3-inch length from the cardboard tissue tube. Cut the tube up the back and then overlap and staple together the ends to create a 1¼-inch-wide tube. Paint the tube medium green, and set it aside to dry.
3. Print the template. Lightly brush a coat of glue sealer over the pair of eyes and let the sealer dry (this shouldn’t take long). Meanwhile, use the other template pieces as patterns for cutting out the specified shapes from colored craft paper.
4. Glue the pink tongue in place centered atop the mouth. Then, cut out the sealed eyes and glue them atop the green eye backings. Let the glue dry.
5. Turn the egg upside down (with the pointed end at the bottom), and glue the assembled mouth in place, positioning the lower edge of the paper ¾ inch from the bottom of the egg.
6. When the glue has dried, pencil short curved smile lines on the egg at both corners of the mouth, then carefully trace over them with the fine-tipped marker.
7. Brush a protective coat of glue sealer on the egg, going right over the paper, to seal it and to give it a little sheen. Seal the surface of the tube and Kermit’s collar, as well.
8. Once the sealer has dried (this shouldn’t take long), lightly pencil placement marks on the egg for the eyes (the lower edges should be about ½ inch above the mouth and the sides should be about ¼ inch apart). Apply glue to the lower half of the paper on the backs of the eyes, and attach them to the egg at a slight angle. Let the glue dry.
9. Meanwhile, snuggly wrap Kermit’s collar around the top of the tube, overlapping the ends and gluing them together on the back side. To give the collar a little more dimension, use your fingers to curl the points away from the tube. Then set the egg atop the finished stand, and your Kermit Easter egg is complete.

Notes

Cutting should be done by an adult.

Craft Time: Cheshire Cat Easter Egg

Cheshire Cat Easter Egg Template PDF

Time: 1 Hour

What You’ll Need

• Hard-boiled eggs dyed purplish-red (using Easter egg dye or gel food coloring) or a plastic egg of a similar size and color
• Scissors
• Craft paper (lavender or purplish-pink paper for the grin and ears, purple striped paper for the body and tail) *
• Toilet tissue tubes or paper towel tube
• Glue stick
• Glue dots
• Fine-tipped black marker

How To Make It

1. Create a stand for the egg by wrapping purple striped paper around a section of a toilet tissue or paper towel tube and securing the overlapped edges with glue. Cut a bushy tail shape out of the same paper and glue it to the base of the holder (if you like, you can even accentuate the tip of the tail with lavender paper). Place the egg sideways atop the holder.
2. Print the template and cut out all the pieces. Use the specified pieces to cut out a lavender or purplish-pink grin and pair of ears.

3. Glue the teeth and nose cutouts onto the grin, as shown.

4. Then draw on whiskers.
5. Use glue dots to stick the upper edge of the assembled grin to the egg, but leave the lower edge unattached so that it remains flat and looks broad (like the Cheshire Cat’s). Glue the eyes in place just above the nose, and use the marker to draw on eyebrows.

6. Lastly, outline each ear with a black marker and then fold the lower edge back as shown. Glue the folded portion of each ear to the top of the egg.

Notes

Cutting should be done by an adult.

Craft Time: Toy Story LGM Easter Egg

Toy Story LGM Easter Egg Template PDF

Time: 40 Minutes

What You’ll Need

• Hard-boiled eggs dyed alien green (using Easter egg dye or gel food coloring) or plastic eggs of a similar size and color
• Scissors
• Craft paper (green, blue, and purple)
• Toilet tissue tubes or paper towel tube
• Paper hole punch
• Glue stick
• Glue dots
• Fine-tipped black marker

How To Make It

1. Print the template and use it to cut out a pair of green paper ears for each alien. Fold the ears in half to create a center crease, as shown.

2. Fashion an antenna for each alien by first folding a 3-inch long thin strip of green paper in half and gluing the two sides together, stopping 1/8-inch from the ends. Then fold the ends out to the sides, as shown.

3. Next, use the paper hole punch to create two green dots and glue them together, sandwiching the top of the antenna between them.
4. Create a stand for each egg by wrapping blue paper around a section of a toilet tissue or paper towel tube and securing the overlapped edges with glue. Add a thin strip of purple paper around the top of the tube for a collar.
5. Set the eggs sideways atop their stands. Use glue dots to attach the ears and antennae. Add three eyes to each egg, placing the center one slightly higher than the other two.
6. For the finishing touch, draw a wide smile on each alien (this is easier to do if you remove the egg from the stand and hold it in one hand while drawing with the other).

Notes

Cutting should be done by an adult.

Craft Time: Donald Duck Easter Candy Box

Donald Duck Easter Candy Box PDF

Time: 30 Minutes

What You’ll Need

• Regular paper or cardstock
• Glue or double-sided tape
• Scissors

How To Make It

1. Print the template on regular paper or cardstock and cut out all the pieces. Make all folds along the dashed lines.
2. Using either glue or double-sided tape, close Donald’s body by securing the tabs around his torso to their corresponding pieces.
3. Close the bottom of the candy box by securing the B tabs, followed by the C tab.
4. Fold each of Donald’s arms in half along the dashed line so the design is two-sided. Without sticking the tabs together, secure the two sides.
5. Butterfly the tabs on Donald’s arms, and secure them to the sides of his body. His right arm holds the egg, while his left holds the paintbrush.
6. Finally, fold the top dashed lines on Donald’s legs toward you, and fold the lower dashed lines away from you – this will help him sit in place.

Notes

Cutting should be done by an adult.