"Star Wars: The Force Awakens" opens in 50 days but before that, Halloween! Can't contain your excitement for the movie? Make your own BB-8 pumpkin in the meantime with help from Disney Family.
The activity is rated to take up 3 hours, but give yourself a little bit more leeway. After all, you want your BB-8 pumpkin to be perfect, right? As with any pumpkin-carving activity, you can do this with the kids, but make sure that all actual cutting and carving will be done by an adult.
To make a BB-8 pumpkin, you'll need:
• 2 pumpkins (small and large)
• A pumpkin carving kit
• Painter's tape (small, medium and large rolls)
• A paint brush
• Fine-grain sandpaper
• Acrylic paint (orange, black and white)
• A paint pen
• Rhinestones
• A small round object (like a styrofoam ball painted black)
• A large round object (like clear plastic ornament cut in half)
• 2 plastic coffee stirrers
• A ballpoint pen
• A translucent silver pen
To get started, trace a circle on top of the small pumpkin using the large painter's tape roll. Carve out and remove this circle, cleaning out the pumpkin. With a smaller painter's tape roll, trace two circles in front of the small pumpkin. These smaller circles should be carved out as well.
To prepare the pumpkins to be painted, lightly sand them. Clean the pumpkins and paint them white. While waiting for the pumpkins to dry, cut out the BB-8 template from Disney Family. Set the template in place with a T-pin and trace along with a ballpoint pen.
Paint following the patterns on the template, repeating until all details are copied on the pumpkin. A ballpoint pen is ideal for adding details because its ink does not bleed through. Add rhinestones to make the details pop out. Paint the small pumpkin black on the inside.
Wrap painter's tape around the outer edge of the clear ornament. Paint the edge black. When the paint dries, remove the tape. Insert the ornament into the large opening in the small pumpkin first and then Insert the styrofoam ball into the smaller opening.
Take the coffee stirrers and sand them. Paint them white. Once dry, attach to the top of the small pumpkin.
Secure the small pumpkin atop the large pumpkin and your BB-8 pumpkin is ready.
Photo: Kārlis Dambrāns | Flickr
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