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Subject: Engineering
Skill Level: Middle School
Ease of Use: Reviews say it's fairly easy to use and operate, works and teaches building problem solving on a very simple setting

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Subject: Science
Skill Level: Elementary/Middle
Ease of use: Easy, shows physical reations!

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Subject: English/Grammer
Skill Level: Elementary/Middle
Ease of Use: Try this just for fun. Even better, use it as the foundation for an English grammar lesson.  For computer science classes and advanced students

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Subject: Math
Subject Area: Elementary
Ease of Use: Reviews say it's easy and friendly for most ages.
It features Star Wars flashcards, geometry questions based on Star Wars characters and spacecraft, and, impressively, a Darth Vader blueprint lesson.

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Subject: Engineering
Skill Level: Elementary
Ease of Use: Reviews say it's fairly easy to use.
Challenge your students to build Anakin’s pod racer, a hut for Yoda, or a brand-new planet.

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Star Wars Word Play
Subject area : English
Skill area: writing and phonics
Ease of use: just paper and pencil with a monitor of any kind
Value: the value comes from the idea of enjoyment and how students can learn while learning about something they think is exciting or cool. Also very cost effective.

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Subject: Engineering
Skill level: Elementary
Ease of Use: This activity is easy but can be hard if you do not follow directions. Super vision is not needed if child can read.
This is a great activity for students to do some hands on work. This also allows children to find ways that building things can be fun while growing their motor skills.

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How to build a LEGO® R2-D2!

Well, the boys have been into all things Star Wars this week, and Aidan built this LEGO® R2-D2. He looked at several options with a Google image search and then created this design. It should be fairly easy to put together if you have enough white and gray bricks!

R2-D2's head rotates all the way around.

Use a hinge, a 4 x 4 blue plate (flat brick) and a 2 x 2 round black plate for R2-D2's face.

Attach the hinge like this:

Then add the black circle.

R2-D2's body is a basic column. The bottom is made up of gray plates, as shown. There are brackets on the front to hold the two gray round bricks.

These are the pieces that Aidan used to make the head turn. It's cool because it swivels all the way around when you turn it, but it doesn't spin freely.

Leave an opening in the body for the turn table. This is a 4 x 4 turn table with locking base.

The arms are attached to a 1 x 2 Technic brick on each side of the body.

The arms are built like this (inside):

And outside:

And the front leg:

Aidan didn't put wheels on R2-D2, but it would be easy to do.

Aidan is working on a C3PO, but we're running low on the right types of yellow bricks, and I told him that I'm not ordering any more bricks since we just spent money on Christmas gifts. So we'll see. 🙂
Need more LEGO® ideas? You can see all of our LEGO® projects (many with instructions!) here: LEGO Category LEGO® is a trademark of the LEGO® group of companies which does not sponsor. authorize, or endorse this site.

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Build a LEGO R2-D2 - Frugal Fun For Boys and Girls

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How to build a LEGO® R2-D2! Well, the boys have been into all things Star Wars this week, and Aidan built this LEGO® R2-D2. He looked at several options with a Google image search and then created this design. It should be fairly easy to put together if you have enough white and gray bricks!

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Subject: Math
Skill Level: Elementary school
Ease of use: Supervision will need to occur when making the different pictures and watching the students work on math facts.
This is a great way for students to work on their addition and subtraction facts but in a fun way. This will allow students to understand math more in a better way.

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One of my latest realizations about homeschooling is that being flexible and following my children's interests instead of my own agenda - with specific, traditional Montessori lessons, for example, is key to our success. So, with that acceptance, I took a step back, put my ego on the back burner, and observed my boys, which is why I've chosen to embrace Star Wars. I hope you enjoy these Montessori inspired activities with a Star Wars theme. We're kicking off our learning with Star Wars Math.

Star Wars Math

Materials

Darth Vader Mask Outline

Black Construction Paper or Cardstock

Star Wars Light Sabres

Die

Piece of Felt or Mat

Addition, Subtraction, and Equals signs

Approach

Print out an outline of Darth Vader's mask from online

Cut out three outlines from black paper & laminate

Introduce the activity to the child with him sitting to your left

Place a piece of felt in front of you with the three Darth Vader masks on the felt

You or the child roll die

Ask the chid to gather the number of light sabers that matches the roll & to place the light sabers onto the first Darth Vader mask

Place the addition or subtraction sign after the first mask explaining that you're adding or subtracting and what that means

Roll the die again & gather light sabers to match the next addend

Then add (or subtract) light sabers to get the total amount

Have the child physically place the two piles of light sabers together (or take from the left addend) following the equals sign

Then have the child count for the answer

Extensions

Use other objects

Practice other math operations

Count total lightsabers

Sort lightsabers by color

Skip counting

Introduce place value to match Montessori color coding

More Math Activities

Have fun!
Marnie

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One of my latest realizations about homeschooling is that being flexible and following my children's interests instead of my own agenda - with specific, traditional Montessori lessons, for example, is key to our success. So, with that acceptance, I took a step back, put my ego on the back burner, and observed my boys, which is why I've chosen to embrace Star Wars.

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Subject: Science
Skill level: 4th or 5th grade
Ease of use: May be challenging if doing on own but with the help of others will be much easier.
This is a great way for students to learn more about science and what kinetic energy is while learning how it works.

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Inside: Delightful Star Wars Science experiment. Introduce kids to the concepts of potential and kinetic energy with the help of Yoda, rump, and a Star Wars LEGO wheel droid. Free printables included.
Do your kids, like mine, obsess about everything Star Wars-related? Then there's no better way to teach them important science concepts than by merging science and Star Wars together.

From Defying Gravity to Practicing Doubles and Near Doubles, from Improving Ruler Proficiency to Math Challenges; Star Wars can help kids develop STEAM skills (science, technology, engineering, art, and math) and have a lot of fun along the way.

Energy

Energy is an abstract idea that can be hard to explain to kids. Of course, we use the word "energy" a lot in everyday life, especially in the context of our ability to do or not to do something. I can't do math problems right now - I don't have any energy. I don't want to sit still - I have too much energy!

We also use the word energy when we refer to the resources that have the power to provide light or electricity, move objects, or produce heat-e lectrical energy, heat energy, sustainable energy, etc.

The scientific use of the word " energy" comes via late Latin from Greek energeia, from en- 'in, within' + ergon 'work.' It means the capacity to perform an action, be it an observable motion or something unobservable to the naked eye, like the interaction of molecules. In short, as my 11-year-old put it, " energy makes things happen."

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Forms of Energy

There are many different forms of energy ( i.e., light energy, thermal energy, nuclear energy), but they all fall into two primary categories: potential and kinetic.

Potential and kinetic energy are the two basic forms of energy. Potential energy is stored energy. We use that term when something has the capacity to develop into energy in the future but isn't doing so right now, i.e. a sleeping child or a stretched elastic band. Kinetic energy is the energy of motion, i.e. a running child or the moving elastic band when you release the tension.

Some more examples of potential (stored) energy:

a raised hammer has gravitational potential energy (if you let go, it will drop),

explosives have chemical potential energy,

a stretched rubber band has elastic potential energy due to its state (once you let go, it will contract)

Yoda can potentially use his force to make things happen, i.e. lift an X-wing from a swamp.

Some more examples of kinetic energy:

Moving car

Walking child

Running Water

Rollercoaster Ride

If an object is moving, it has kinetic energy. The faster the object is moving, the more kinetic energy it has.
So, let's grab LEGO Yoda and a wheel droid and go conduct an investigation demonstrating the relationship between speed of motion and kinetic energy.

Star Wars Science: Energy of Motion

What you need

Yoda or other Star Wars character

Items to make a ramp (books, boxes, flat toys, tape)

A Wheel Droid or other Star Wars vehicle

Record Sheet (If you are already a subscriber, you can get it at the library. If you are not, you can subscribe here.)

What to do

First, we are going to test the idea that potential and kinetic energies are found in all objects. Hold Yoda in space. This is an example of potential energy. Let go of Yoda. This is an example of kinetic energy.

Now use books, boxes, flat toys, or cardboard to build a ramp. You can use tape to secure both ends of your ramp in place.

Measure the height of the ramp and write down the number.

Place Yoda at the bottom of the ramp and mark with a pencil mark or sticker the exact position of his feet.

Place wheel droid at the top of the ramp. What kind of energy Yoda and the wheel droid have right now? Yep, potential.

Let the wheel droid roll down the ramp in the direction of Yoda. Measure the distance Yoda moved from his fixed location, and write it down. We got five inches. (Don't worry, Yoda is ok).

Raise or lower the ramp and write down the new height.

Place Yoda in the same spot where he was with the first ramp.

Release wheel droid from the top of the ramp again.

Measure the distance Yoda moved this time, and write it down. What happened when you changed the height of the ramp? In our case, the distance that Yoda traveled increased from five inches to eight. Did higher ramp give the wheel droid more or less potential energy?

In short

A wheel droid on top of the ramp has potential energy. A moving wheel droid has kinetic energy. The higher the slope, the faster the speed with which the wheel droid hits Yoda. It means the faster the moving object, the bigger its kinetic energy.

Energy Transfer

Energy can come in many forms, but it cannot be created or destroyed.

What?!

Yep, even though kids have a hard time accepting this, according to the first law of thermodynamics, the universe is a closed system, and the total amount of energy is always the same. It means you can neither create nor destroy energy, but you can transfer it.

But, my kids immediately objected, how about Yoda lifting X-wing from a swamp using only his mind. He didn't use cranes, pull with his hands, or blast it into the air with explosives. They were insistent that there was no energy transfer.

Energy comes in different forms. And transfer takes place when energy moves from one place to another, even when we can't see the transfer. What Yoda does have is the force, and the force is his mysterious energy. So, in the end, his use of force is a form of energy transfer from Yoda's mind to an object in front of him.

Discussion questions
What's energy? Where does energy come from? Can energy be created or destroyed? How can energy be transferred?
If you want to print this Word Search, go HERE.

If you want to print the Record Sheet to use with this experiment, go here.

If you want to print this Crossword Puzzle, go HERE.

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Subject: Science
Skill level: Elementary
Ease of use: This is very easy when the child is getting supervised.
This is a great idea for students to be able to work on their creative side while strengthening their fine motor skills.

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I love to play with my kids. I don't know why-before I had kids, I really didn't play all thst much, and children ran screaming from me (literally), so I am honestly unsure of where this comes from. And if we can bond while play is happening, that's like the best part of my day. So, my son was talking about the new Star Wars movie coming out soon (yipee!) and I thought, maybe he and I could bond a little over some obleek, star wars, and a couple legos. I sent him to find the legos and started working. By the time he came back with our mini-figures, the Star Wars Galaxy Obleek was ready.

There's just so much fun in this little bowl and so much educational opportunity, too. While we played, we talked about so many subjects: why the obleek had the liquid/solid properties; how the figures sunk like the x-wing did on Degoba; what pretend constellations we could make; how the food coloring worked to make that neat galaxy-like swirl. We really discovered a lot of things together-and I pretend "became one with the force" at the end and stepped back to let him play alone. It was a good time and I felt like we really made use of this easy 5-minute activity (even if he's a little older). If you bond with your kiddo over this, let me know in the comments (finally got those working...).

Ingredients for Star Wars Galaxy Obleek

2 cups corn starch

1/2 cup water

10 drops black gel food coloring

1 tspn white pearl sprinkles

1 1/4 tblspn glitter

Lego Star Wars men (optional)

How to Make Star Wars Galaxy Obleek

1. Mix the cornstarch with 2 tblspn of water. If mixture is too dry, add more water. Keep adding water until mixture is wet in appearance, but solid when touched.

2. Add 1 tblspn glitter and spread gel food coloring in several locations.

3. Mix well, making sure to get the color sort of choppy, but swirly.

4. Place in your bowl where you intend to have the kids play.

5. Sprinkle on the 1/4 tablespoon of glitter and sprinkles.

6. Drop the lego men on top.

7. Get ready for some galaxy-fun!

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Subject: English/Art
Skill Level: 1st-4th grade
Ease of use: With guidance help it is very easy.

This idea is great for students to make stories out of the shadow puppets and teaches the students how to work together to form a story.

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Hands up if you have a Star Wars fan in your home? We do and he has been waiting for the day to share his love with our kids! I mean, that really is one of the joys of parenting isn't it- sharing those passions and joys that were so super cool during your own childhood with your kids? And Dad 101's love of Star Wars is so much cooler than my excitement at recently find Jem and the Holograms on one of our pay TV channels 😉 Anyway, in our home, apparently the time for the sharing is now, largely due to the greatly anticipated upcoming release of the seventh installment in the series, Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

To celebrate the release, we've teamed with Duracell, an official partner of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, to power some fabulously fun Star Wars inspired play in your home. Puppets are one of my absolute favourite toys for encouraging literacy development in children. Playing with puppets is not only about speaking and listening, it's also about developing story telling skills such as planning, sequencing and comprehension. There are also a whole host of creative, imaginative and social benefits of puppet play. And puppet play is not just for little kids. Oh no, hand over a set of these fab printable Star Wars shadow puppets, and school aged children will have a great time creating stories and scenarios together. All you need is a torch to power your shadow puppet play, no fancy theatre set up required!

How to Make Your Own Star Wars Shadow Puppets
You will need:

Scissors

Utility knife

Wooden chopsticks, bamboo skewers or straws

Tape

A torch (powered with long lasting Duracell Ultra AA batteries, of course!)

1. Print out the Star Wars shadow play puppets (see printable instructions above).

2. Cut around each puppet and carefully cut out each white area with the utility knife - you'll definitely need adult help for this step.

3. Laminate and then cut around each laminated puppet.

4. Tape each puppet to a bamboo skewer or straw.

Then your puppets are ready for play! Set up your torch so that it is projecting at the wall and hold each puppet between the light source and the wall. Have fun creating new adventures with these classic Star Wars characters - and just try to keep Dad away from the fun!
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Christie Burnett is a teacher, presenter, writer and the mother of two. She created Childhood 101 as a place for teachers and parents to access engaging, high quality learning ideas.

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Hands up if you have a Star Wars fan in your home? We do and he has been waiting for the day to share his love with our kids! I mean, that really is one of the joys of parenting isn't it- sharing those passions and joys that were so super cool during your own childhood with your kids?

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Subject: English/Art
Skill Level: 1st-4th grade
Ease of use: With guidance help it is very easy.

This idea is great for students to make stories out of the shadow puppets and teaches the students how to work together to form a story.

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Hands up if you have a Star Wars fan in your home? We do and he has been waiting for the day to share his love with our kids! I mean, that really is one of the joys of parenting isn't it- sharing those passions and joys that were so super cool during your own childhood with your kids? And Dad 101's love of Star Wars is so much cooler than my excitement at recently find Jem and the Holograms on one of our pay TV channels 😉 Anyway, in our home, apparently the time for the sharing is now, largely due to the greatly anticipated upcoming release of the seventh installment in the series, Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

To celebrate the release, we've teamed with Duracell, an official partner of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, to power some fabulously fun Star Wars inspired play in your home. Puppets are one of my absolute favourite toys for encouraging literacy development in children. Playing with puppets is not only about speaking and listening, it's also about developing story telling skills such as planning, sequencing and comprehension. There are also a whole host of creative, imaginative and social benefits of puppet play. And puppet play is not just for little kids. Oh no, hand over a set of these fab printable Star Wars shadow puppets, and school aged children will have a great time creating stories and scenarios together. All you need is a torch to power your shadow puppet play, no fancy theatre set up required!

How to Make Your Own Star Wars Shadow Puppets
You will need:

Scissors

Utility knife

Wooden chopsticks, bamboo skewers or straws

Tape

A torch (powered with long lasting Duracell Ultra AA batteries, of course!)

1. Print out the Star Wars shadow play puppets (see printable instructions above).

2. Cut around each puppet and carefully cut out each white area with the utility knife - you'll definitely need adult help for this step.

3. Laminate and then cut around each laminated puppet.

4. Tape each puppet to a bamboo skewer or straw.

Then your puppets are ready for play! Set up your torch so that it is projecting at the wall and hold each puppet between the light source and the wall. Have fun creating new adventures with these classic Star Wars characters - and just try to keep Dad away from the fun!
To make;
Christie Burnett is a teacher, presenter, writer and the mother of two. She created Childhood 101 as a place for teachers and parents to access engaging, high quality learning ideas.

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Hands up if you have a Star Wars fan in your home? We do and he has been waiting for the day to share his love with our kids! I mean, that really is one of the joys of parenting isn't it- sharing those passions and joys that were so super cool during your own childhood with your kids?

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Subject: building class or a technology class.

Skill Level High school.
Ease to use for high school students.

I think this is a great way to find out how kids are learning how to build in a star war Lego concept. A teacher can have students learn how to build something and connect the idea to star wars.

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Need a fun and free way to keep the family busy? Our Lego Star Wars Printable Game Cards provide exciting challenges for builders of all ages. Great for a birthday party, classroom event, or a game night at home! And don't miss our easy and delicious Star Wars Snack Mix, you'll have everything you need for an entertaining afternoon!

We're so excited to share this special Lego Star Wars Printable Game Cards activity with you! If you're not familiar with our original version of the Lego Challenge Game & Lego Themed Snacks, you'll definitely want to check that out, it's perfect for a rainy day or anytime you need to keep the kiddos busy!

You'll need to download and print our game cards, cut them apart, and gather up the Lego bin

, that's it, then you're ready to play!

Download Here: Lego Star Wars Challenge Cards.docx

Have the kids form a circle up and empty a bin of basic Legos

into the center. Next, have them choose from the top of the deck , read the challenge aloud, assign a time period to complete it (10-15 minutes seemed to work best for our group) and have everyone get started! It's so fun to watch imaginations on fire and creativity at its finest!

We've got Star Wars and Lego fun galore for fans of all ages! Be sure to peek at our Star Wars Snack Mix and our Ultimate Star Wars Printable Round-Up. We've got a free printable for Lego Minifigures as well!

For fun beyond the Lego Star Wars Printable Game Cards, visit our Lego Board on Pinterest!
Follow Sunshine and Hurricanes 's board Lego Love on Pinterest.

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Need a fun and free way to keep the family busy? Our Lego Star Wars Printable Game Cards provide exciting challenges for builders of all ages. Great for a birthday party, classroom event, or a game night at home! And don't miss our easy and delicious Star Wars Snack Mix, you'll have everything you need for an entertaining afternoon!

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Subject: Science

Skill level: 1st grade-4th  Elementary

Ease to use: Parent yes but students will need adult supervision.

The idea is for a student to learn how science works. If a student can learn about science though Star Wars this is a great idea to bridge the gap.

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These bubbling slime sensory tubs are my son's new favorite thing! Which is pretty impressive, because in the past he's always refused my invitations to play with the various gooey slime recipes I've experimented with in our kitchen. But between the exciting bubbling action that lasts for hours and hours - ours was still bubbling the next day! - and all of the pretend play possibilities, he's been willing to get his hands messy to play. He's also enjoyed making this no-cook slime recipe with me, and keeps brainstorming more Star Wars sensory tubs for us to make in the future.
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This slime recipe is made entirely with edible ingredients, and the key to it is xanthan gum, a common ingredient in gluten-free baking. It's an ingredient I've been intrigued with ever since I made vegetarian marshmallows for my food blog. (That was a science experiment all on its own!)

I've been playing with xanthan gum slimes on and off for the past several months, but never blogged about them because a) I was the only one playing with them in our house and b) it was a bit difficult to work slime into the prevailing theme over at Play Trains! Wooden trains and slimes don't exactly mix, you know.

But then Asia from Fun at Home with Kids held her awesome Slime Week, and she inspired Mary Catherine from Fun-a-Day! and me to come up with Star Wars slime activities. If anything was going to convince my son to play with slime, it would be making Yoda's swamp come alive for him. Really alive... bubbling with life, in fact!

The bubbling action is caused by a thin layer of baking soda at the bottom of the sensory tub. With the slime at just the right consistency, it slows down the reaction between the vinegar in the slime and the baking soda at the bottom of the tub. For us, they kept reacting for at least 24 hours! My son was super impressed by that one, and it was a great way to observe baking soda and vinegar reaction over a long period of time.

Of course, you can stir the slime and the baking soda up and speed up the reaction, like we did above. (Make sure you're prepared for overflow!) But even then it lasts much, much longer than plain baking soda and vinegar, and the slimy foam holds the bubbles for a long time.

And this is what Yoda's swamp looked like when it was finally finished actively bubbling. All those trapped bubbles! Isn't it gorgeous?

We made another batch of the slime earlier today, this time tinted blue, and put it in a squirt bottle. We set up a container with some Angry Birds figures sitting on baking soda, and he had a great time squirting the birds and pigs "at the pool". We're looking forward to finding more fun ways to play with this slime!

Safety Note: While all of the ingredients are edible, and this should be safe enough if a child tastes it once or twice, xanthan gum is a substance that thickens water. To be on the safe side, I wouldn't let a child eat the slime, and I would supervise any activity where this slime is used.

Bubbling Slime Recipe

Ingredients

2 cups of white vinegar

1 1/4 teaspoons xanthan gum

Food coloring (optional)

Enough baking soda to cover the bottom of your tub

Directions

1. Pour the vinegar into a bowl. Whisk vigorously as you shake the xanthan gum over the surface of the vinegar little by little. Add food coloring, if desired, and whisk it in.

2. At this point, your slime will have lots of little white clumps of xanthan gum in it (see the photo below). These will slowly hydrate, so put the slime in the fridge for 2-3 hours or overnight.

3. Whisk the slime until it's smooth. It should be cloudy, and the texture should look almost creamy. But gooey.

4. Test the consistency by lifting some of the slime up on the whisk and letting it run back into the bowl. If it's too thick to run and pour, whisk in a little extra vinegar to thin it out.

5. Pour the slime over the baking soda in your tub and enjoy!

Notes

Store the slime covered in the fridge. Because it's made with edible ingredients, wouldn't keep it around for more than a week or so.

Xanthan gum is relatively easy to find these days, because it's become a common ingredient in gluten-free baking. If you're looking for more ways to use it, check out our Chocolate Slime Playdough recipe, and Fun at Home with Kids' awesome No-Cook Edible Chia, Flaxseed, and Seedless Slime recipes. Also, back in my food blogger days, I wrote about vegetarian marshmallows I made with xanthan gum instead of gelatin.

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See it in Action!

Now that you've seen how to make the bubbling slime, see how we used it in our Lego Star Wars Yoda's Swamp Slime Sensory Bin - you don't want to miss the video!

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Subject: Reading

Skill Level: Beginning Elementary

Ease to use: With guidance help yes

This can give students the chance to pick up a book and learn to read for the first time. I think this would be great for a fist grade class.

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Star Adventurer Emergent Readers - In All You Do

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Subject Area: Art

Skill Level: Elementary

ease to use: yes, just drawing

Kids love to color and Star Wars. This is a simple way for kids to be entertained with something that could take up sometime. Kids will learn how to draw a famous start wars face.

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Description: Don't fall to the dark side just because of the face you see before you now. Today I will be uploading so many cool tutorials for you all, but to start things off we will learn " how to draw Darth Vader easy", step by step. Darth Vader is probably one of the meanest, ruthless, most popular villain of all time. Star Wars just wouldn't be the same if Vader was never part of the film series. Anyways, I know all you fans out there will love this lesson on drawing Darth Vader. I shall return with more fun for you all so be sure to stay tuned in. Peace people and enjoy.

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How To Draw Darth Vader Easy, Step by Step, Drawing Guide, by Dawn

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Subject: Math

Skill Level: Fourth Grade

Ease of use: can be ease once students learn how to m=use multiplication

The idea for this is students learning math skills with Star Wars multiplication Path. I think this is a great idea for beginner in either math or coloring the picture with math works.

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-Subject: Art
-Level K-12
-Difficulty: Easy
-This is a simple little can project that can be done at School to inspire Kid's creation and creativity for the future.

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In honor of Star Wars day (May the 4th be with you), here is a simple Star Wars craft project. These Star Wars tin can lanterns are simple for bigger kids to make, and would be perfect for decorating at a Star Wars party.

To light them up, use tea lights. Or to make them safer for kids, use battery powered tea lights (Amazon affiliate link).

We found that real tea lights with a flame provide a better amount of light, but the cans do get hot, so use your judgment on what's best for your house.
How to make the lanterns:
Step 1: Save and wash various sizes of tin cans.

Step 2: In order to keep the cans from getting dented in when you make the design, it works well to fill them with wet sand and freeze for several hours. We did not freeze our first cans long enough, and some of the sand spilled out. Once they are totally frozen, the sand will stay put.

Step 3: Plan your design. Aidan (age 10.5) and Dad worked on these together, and Dad ended up doing all the drawing. We can't offer our designs because of copyright issues, but we'll show you what we did!

Dad drew each design on paper, and then attached it to the can with rubber bands. We also tried tape, but it doesn't stick well once the cold cans start accumulating condensation because of the frozen sand.

Step 4: Use a hammer and nails to punch holes following the design. You might want to have more than one size of nail for details.

Step 5: Spray the cans with spray paint and let dry. We used black chalkboard finish spray paint.

The guys made Yoda:

And the death star:

And R2D2 (my favorite) and the Millenium Falcon (which I did not get a picture of):
Now we just need to plan a summer Star Wars themed cook-out and use our lanterns to decorate!

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How to Make Star Wars Tin Can Lanterns - Frugal Fun For Boys and Girls

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In honor of Star Wars day (May the 4th be with you), here is a simple Star Wars craft project. These Star Wars tin can lanterns are simple for bigger kids to make, and would be perfect for decorating at a Star Wars party. To light them up, use tea lights.

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My son has been very interested in Star Wars for years, ever since his aunt and uncle took him to the Jedi Academy. He's always been into LEGO, so imagine his reaction when he discovered LEGO Star Wars! I created this LEGO science experiment for his 7th birthday party. He and his buds absolutely loved it, and we've recreated it many (many!) times over the years.

Rescue Han Solo in this Star Wars LEGO science experiment

Engineer's friends requested an "activity" for his birthday party, as they love the random experiments we do. As I was striving to come up with something, I remembered Han Solo being encased in carbonite. That, coupled with how much I loved our "exploding" pirate treasure chests, inspired this science activity.

Materials we used

Ice cube tray
Baking soda
Vinegar
Water
Lego Star Wars minifigures
Angry Birds Star Wars figures

Directions

1. Mix 3 parts baking soda with 1 part water. If desired, add Jello powder to scent and color the mixture.*

2. Pour a small amount of the mixture into the bottom of the ice cube tray.

3. Place one Star Wars toy into each section.

4. Cover each toy up with more of the baking soda and water mixture.

5. Place the ice cube tray into the freezer for a few hours.

6. Remove the "carbonite"-encased figures and place in containers.

7. Add vinegar to save Han Solo and his Star Wars buddies.

*Engineer and I made one tray using the basic mixture and one tray with blue Jello added to it.

How Our Han Solo LEGO Science Went

Despite the fact that we've done a variety of baking soda and vinegar experiments in the past, they never seem to get old! To begin with, I placed one figurine in small glass dishes for each of the boys. They happily spooned vinegar to rescue the Star Wars characters. Once they'd saved all of the Lego figures from the basic white "carbonite", they moved onto the Jello mixture.

As they rescued more Star Wars characters, they became even more excited about the experiment. This meant we had to move everything into a much larger tub. I probably should have done that to begin with! 🙂 The boys used the vinegar bottles to pour vinegar over the remaining cubes. Once all of them were melted, they began having fun with the vinegar and baking soda.
Related: Simple LEGO Sensory Bottle Kids Can Make
There were mini "explosions" from the vinegar bottles as they added more baking soda. They dissolved into giggles when they realized shaking the bottles created funny fizzes. Needless to say, I needed a couple of towels at this point! The Lego Star Wars figures had fun in the "blue swamp" as they battled each other amid volcanic eruptions.

I loved hearing the stories the kiddos created as they played. They definitely had a blast with this Lego science activity, and we only stopped because we ran out of vinegar! Engineer has already asked to try this again, and I'm sure it will be fun to do in the summer heat.

Ideas for Next Time

I will definitely be trying this science experiment outside next time. The kids got so into it that there was a small disaster in my kitchen! Since it was raining, though, there really wasn't a better place for us to play. Plus, a couple of towels cleaned everything up pretty easily.

I'll also start everything out in a larger tub. We used with small dishes at first, so each child could have his own space. I should have known they'd end up combining everything anyway!

I plan on freezing a lot more figures next time, too. Or at least make more frozen baking soda cubes. It's such fun for the kids, and I love encouraging their interest in science!

Do you have any Lego Star Wars fans at home? Have you tried any Lego science experiments recently? If so, I would love to hear about them in the comments below. I'm sure Engineer would be interested in trying them out in the next month or two.

More LEGO Fun

More Star Wars Ideas
Originally published on May 15, 2014

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This is Such an Awesome Star Wars LEGO Science Idea!

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-Level: K-12
-Difficulty: Easy
-This project is mainly a science project, but can be used to help in creating bubbling slime like in Yoda's home within the Swamp to create that environment.

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These bubbling slime sensory tubs are my son's new favorite thing! Which is pretty impressive, because in the past he's always refused my invitations to play with the various gooey slime recipes I've experimented with in our kitchen. But between the exciting bubbling action that lasts for hours and hours - ours was still bubbling the next day! - and all of the pretend play possibilities, he's been willing to get his hands messy to play. He's also enjoyed making this no-cook slime recipe with me, and keeps brainstorming more Star Wars sensory tubs for us to make in the future.
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This slime recipe is made entirely with edible ingredients, and the key to it is xanthan gum, a common ingredient in gluten-free baking. It's an ingredient I've been intrigued with ever since I made vegetarian marshmallows for my food blog. (That was a science experiment all on its own!)

I've been playing with xanthan gum slimes on and off for the past several months, but never blogged about them because a) I was the only one playing with them in our house and b) it was a bit difficult to work slime into the prevailing theme over at Play Trains! Wooden trains and slimes don't exactly mix, you know.

But then Asia from Fun at Home with Kids held her awesome Slime Week, and she inspired Mary Catherine from Fun-a-Day! and me to come up with Star Wars slime activities. If anything was going to convince my son to play with slime, it would be making Yoda's swamp come alive for him. Really alive... bubbling with life, in fact!

The bubbling action is caused by a thin layer of baking soda at the bottom of the sensory tub. With the slime at just the right consistency, it slows down the reaction between the vinegar in the slime and the baking soda at the bottom of the tub. For us, they kept reacting for at least 24 hours! My son was super impressed by that one, and it was a great way to observe baking soda and vinegar reaction over a long period of time.

Of course, you can stir the slime and the baking soda up and speed up the reaction, like we did above. (Make sure you're prepared for overflow!) But even then it lasts much, much longer than plain baking soda and vinegar, and the slimy foam holds the bubbles for a long time.

And this is what Yoda's swamp looked like when it was finally finished actively bubbling. All those trapped bubbles! Isn't it gorgeous?

We made another batch of the slime earlier today, this time tinted blue, and put it in a squirt bottle. We set up a container with some Angry Birds figures sitting on baking soda, and he had a great time squirting the birds and pigs "at the pool". We're looking forward to finding more fun ways to play with this slime!

Safety Note: While all of the ingredients are edible, and this should be safe enough if a child tastes it once or twice, xanthan gum is a substance that thickens water. To be on the safe side, I wouldn't let a child eat the slime, and I would supervise any activity where this slime is used.

Bubbling Slime Recipe

Ingredients

2 cups of white vinegar

1 1/4 teaspoons xanthan gum

Food coloring (optional)

Enough baking soda to cover the bottom of your tub

Directions

1. Pour the vinegar into a bowl. Whisk vigorously as you shake the xanthan gum over the surface of the vinegar little by little. Add food coloring, if desired, and whisk it in.

2. At this point, your slime will have lots of little white clumps of xanthan gum in it (see the photo below). These will slowly hydrate, so put the slime in the fridge for 2-3 hours or overnight.

3. Whisk the slime until it's smooth. It should be cloudy, and the texture should look almost creamy. But gooey.

4. Test the consistency by lifting some of the slime up on the whisk and letting it run back into the bowl. If it's too thick to run and pour, whisk in a little extra vinegar to thin it out.

5. Pour the slime over the baking soda in your tub and enjoy!

Notes

Store the slime covered in the fridge. Because it's made with edible ingredients, wouldn't keep it around for more than a week or so.

Xanthan gum is relatively easy to find these days, because it's become a common ingredient in gluten-free baking. If you're looking for more ways to use it, check out our Chocolate Slime Playdough recipe, and Fun at Home with Kids' awesome No-Cook Edible Chia, Flaxseed, and Seedless Slime recipes. Also, back in my food blogger days, I wrote about vegetarian marshmallows I made with xanthan gum instead of gelatin.

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Now that you've seen how to make the bubbling slime, see how we used it in our Lego Star Wars Yoda's Swamp Slime Sensory Bin - you don't want to miss the video!

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These bubbling slime sensory tubs are my son's new favorite thing! Which is pretty impressive, because in the past he's always refused my invitations to play with the various gooey slime recipes I've experimented with in our kitchen. But between the exciting bubbling action that lasts for hours and hours - ours was still bubbling the next day!

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-Level: K-12
-Difficulty: Easy
-This Project is good for getting your student's hands dirty and have them be able to use measuring to guide their way into making their own Star Wars galaxy.

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I love to play with my kids. I don't know why-before I had kids, I really didn't play all thst much, and children ran screaming from me (literally), so I am honestly unsure of where this comes from. And if we can bond while play is happening, that's like the best part of my day. So, my son was talking about the new Star Wars movie coming out soon (yipee!) and I thought, maybe he and I could bond a little over some obleek, star wars, and a couple legos. I sent him to find the legos and started working. By the time he came back with our mini-figures, the Star Wars Galaxy Obleek was ready.

There's just so much fun in this little bowl and so much educational opportunity, too. While we played, we talked about so many subjects: why the obleek had the liquid/solid properties; how the figures sunk like the x-wing did on Degoba; what pretend constellations we could make; how the food coloring worked to make that neat galaxy-like swirl. We really discovered a lot of things together-and I pretend "became one with the force" at the end and stepped back to let him play alone. It was a good time and I felt like we really made use of this easy 5-minute activity (even if he's a little older). If you bond with your kiddo over this, let me know in the comments (finally got those working...).

Ingredients for Star Wars Galaxy Obleek

2 cups corn starch

1/2 cup water

10 drops black gel food coloring

1 tspn white pearl sprinkles

1 1/4 tblspn glitter

Lego Star Wars men (optional)

How to Make Star Wars Galaxy Obleek

1. Mix the cornstarch with 2 tblspn of water. If mixture is too dry, add more water. Keep adding water until mixture is wet in appearance, but solid when touched.

2. Add 1 tblspn glitter and spread gel food coloring in several locations.

3. Mix well, making sure to get the color sort of choppy, but swirly.

4. Place in your bowl where you intend to have the kids play.

5. Sprinkle on the 1/4 tablespoon of glitter and sprinkles.

6. Drop the lego men on top.

7. Get ready for some galaxy-fun!

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Subject: Crafts/Science
Level: K-12
Difficulty: Very Easy
-This project is very easy and fun to make with your class on a casual day like May 4th. Since it could be a way to get a student's creativity flowing while making the student be hands on with a simple project.

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This is a big week for Star Wars fans every where including myself, my son, and my husband! I made these fun and easy, glowing light saber sensory bottles for my son to enjoy. Yes, they glow in the dark just like our Star Wars slime! Why not try a few Star Wars activities at home to build the excitement. Of course, if your house is anything like ours, Star Wars is a hit all year round.

GLOWING STAR WARS LIGHT SABER BOTTLES

We love sensory bottles, so I was pretty excited to try out these glow in the dark light saber sensory bottles with my son. We also have a fun Minion sensory bottle, TMNT sensory bottle, and rainbow glitter bottles. Our light saber sensory bottles are super easy to make and a fun craft time activity for the not so crafty kids like my son. A few supplies and you are ready!

Supplies Used for Light Saber Sensory Bottles
Glitter glue {alternatively you can use clear glue, food coloring, and glitter seen here} Charcoal Grey/Black Sparkle Tape {also has a neat rough texture to it}
MAKE LIGHT SABER SENSORY BOTTLES

Step 1: Add about 1/3 of the glitter glue to the water bottle. You can also do this with clear glue and add a drop of food coloring and shake or two of glitter. The blue light saber sensory bottle is made with glitter glue. The green light saber sensory bottle is made with the clear glue method, but you may want to add more clear glue. The glue simply slows the glitter while it settles.

Step 2: Fill with water if the bottle was empty and mix/shake to get the glue distributed evenly.

Step 4: Add your glow sticks. We bought a box of 100 for Halloween treats and had a ton left.

Step 5: Decorate your light saber sensory bottles with cool colored tapes to make a handle.

HOW TO MAKE HANDLES ON LIGHT SABER SENSORY BOTTLE

If you want your bottles to look like ours read below. Encourage your kids to come up with their own ideas too! We have several variations we tried together. Younger children may need more help with the tapes as my son did.

I used both silvery wide tape and narrow dark grey or black glitter tape to give it a metallic look. Hey, if you have duct tape and electric tape at home, go for it! I removed the cap and wrapped it in the silver tape first. I did not try to cut the excess tape since the tape is wider than the cap. I simply pressed it into the underside of the cap instead. Re-cap the bottle. {This could be done before you fill the bottles.}

Next, just underneath where the cap meets, I wrapped another silver piece of tape around the bottle itself. Don't go over the cap. This way you can take out your glow sticks and add fresh ones if you want! I added a strip of the darker tape at the top and bottom of the silver tape. You can also add buttons or other design elements.

Your light saber sensory bottles are complete. You could also do a red light saber bottle! However, I wouldn't go into a light saber dual with these. They were a very cool and fun activity to do with my son. My husband thought they were pretty neat too. We added our light saber sensory bottles to my son's desk and used them for a night light instead of his glowing stars. The glow sticks are easy to take out and change with an adults help.

May the force be with you! Hope you enjoy the new Star Wars movie!

Make Glowing Light Saber Sensory Bottles with your kids!
Check out our Death Star play dough kit too! More fun ways to enjoy Star Wars activities. Click on photos.

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Level: Elementary
Very Easy to Use
Free to Print
Allows new English learners and low level English readers to expand their reading. Improves your reading and vocabulary skills.

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Star Adventurer Emergent Readers - In All You Do

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What boy doesn't love Star Wars? Grab these fun Star Adventurer Emergent Readers for some fun reading!! {4 levels} :: www.inallyoudo.net

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Level: Elementary
This activity is for outdoor use. All you need is some chalk and a pretty day. Get some Star War words gathered up and write them in boxes across the pavement. Have your students listen to those words as you call them out and let them search!
Also encourages students to learn new words and make connections with other students.

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This sidewalk chalk game combined Star Wars, reading, handwriting practice, and running. It is seriously so much fun, and if Star Wars isn't your thing, you could tailor it to any favorite story.

Creating the Star Wars Game

We came up with a list of Star Wars words together. I tried to focus on words that were not Star Wars specific (like Tatooine), but ones that my son might see in other contexts as well. Some words we used were:

We each wrote up the words on the driveway using sidewalk chalk. (Yes, I am officially obsessed with sidewalk chalk games!) Both my kindergartner and I wrote out the words. For words he couldn't spell, he got out his LEGO Star Wars Dictionary to check the spelling.

Then we traced a shape around the word. We wanted to have a way for my toddler to join in the fun, because reading the words was not an option!

Playing the Game

Our "mission" was to land on the each word, to rescue it from the Empire. I called out a word, and my kids would run and look for it. I gave more help with some of the words (like, say, Tatooine) that were well beyond my little guy. For those words, I would say, "what letter does it start with?" and then repeat the word, emphasizing the first sound.

My son would then run to the word, and free it from the Empire. The word would be free after he repeated the spelling of the word back to me. Mid-way through the first game, he realized he needed to build Lego spacecraft to land on these words. So we had to take a Lego break!

It rained last night, so our game board washed away, but I'm sure we'll be back out there with the sidewalk chalk in no time!

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This sidewalk chalk game combined Star Wars, reading, handwriting practice, and running. It is seriously so much fun, and if Star Wars isn't your thing, you could tailor it to any favorite story. We came up with a list of Star Wars words together.

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Easy to Use with Tutorial
Low Value doesn't require much purchases just slime and food coloring
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This molten lava slime is perfect for all kinds of science and sensory play. We especially loved using it with Star Wars Lego characters and dinosaurs. How will YOU and the kids use it?

Related: How to Make Slime with Kids
My son and I originally made this molten lava slime years ago. Take a look at it in action:

We were inspired by the scene in Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith where Obi-Wan and Anakin duel on the planet Mustafar.

The planet has lots of active volcanoes, so the two fight amid pools of hot lava.

Obviously, you need to decide if the scene from the actual movie is appropriate for your own kids.

This post is focused on sensory and pretend play with slime! Seeing the movie isn't necessary.

Related: Star Wars Activities
How to Make Lava Slime

This slime is made up of four batches of slime - yellow, red, orange, and gold. You can find the individual recipes below.

The children can help with measuring, mixing, and setting up this slime activity . . . provided they're under adult supervision the entire time. And as long as they're old enough to keep things out of their mouths.

You can even outfit the kids with their own safety goggles, aprons, and gloves for slime making.

My son was 7 when we first made our lava slime. He was involved in it from start to finish.

Here are all of the items we used to make our molten lava slime.

If you and the kids love making slime, I suggest designating a set of mixing bowls and measuring cups just for slime.
Elmer's clear school glue
Water (optional)

Liquid watercolors (or food coloring)

Glitter (optional)
Sta-Flo liquid starch
Craft sticks or spoons

Mixing bowls

Measuring cups

Start off by making the red portion of the lava slime.

Add 5 ounces of clear glue to a mixing bowl. If you like adding water to your slime, you can add about 4 ounces of water to the glue.

Then mix in 1 tablespoon of red liquid watercolors and 1 tablespoon of red glitter. Stir everything well.

Slowly add 4 ounces (about 7 to 8 tablespoons) of liquid starch to the bowl. Stir well as you add the starch.

Related: Snow Paint Sensory Bin with Dinosaurs
Knead the slime for a minute or two, and then check the stickiness and stretch.

If more starch is needed, be sure to add it in a tablespoon at a time before kneading.

Next are the orange and yellow slimes.

To do so, follow the same basic directions as the red slime above.

The only thing we did differently was the addition of glitter. We put glitter in the red slime, but chose not to add any glitter to the orange or yellow slimes.

You can, of course, add glitter to these slimes if you want to!

I have to admit, this one is a favorite of mine. We have made it SO many times over the years. And it never fails to be a blast.

It's the perfect addition to the lava slime, as it adds just that extra bit of golden glimmer.

You can read here how to make the golden slime:
Gold Slime Recipe
Once you've made the red, orange, yellow, and golden slimes, it's time to put it all together!

Have the kids place the slimes on top of each other on a large tray or platter. The order doesn't really matter - let the kids decide for themselves.

Related: How to Make Galaxy Slime
From there, add any of the items you'd like to include in your lava slime.

You might add Lego Star Wars minifigures, toy dinosaurs, or even a toy volcano.

Then let the kids play and explore to their hearts' content!

Related: Simple LEGO Sensory Bottle Kids Can Make
Once the slimes were ready to go, my son brought in his Lego bricks and minifigures.

If your children are really into Star Wars, I'm sure they'll enjoy it too.

We used a variety of minifigures with the lava slime:

Stormtroopers

Droids

Obi-Wan

Our own hobbled-together version of Anakin

Lightsabers

Some random Lego bricks

We didn't have all of the "correct" Lego items, but that wasn't a big deal.

My son ran a few different experiments with the slime, mostly focused on how long Lego take to sink.

And of course there was a LOT of stretching the slime and poking it. Because how can you not?!

Related: Superhero Slime
From there, it was an epic bottle over the lava slime.

At the end of our duel, Anakin was left to sink into the molten lava.

The slime bubbled and everything, which added even more dramatic effect to our play.

Once the Lego Star Wars duel was over, most of the slime was mixed together. This resulted in a beautiful, sparkly dark orange slime.

We sealed it up in a lidded container and continued to play with it for weeks.

The lava slime was perfect for our small dinosaur toys, along with a wide range of other toys.

Are you up for making molten lava slime with the kids? If so, be sure to let me know how much fun you have.

For another amazing Lego Star Wars slime idea, check out Epic Fun for Kids' Yoga Slime. I love that she made it bubble!

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This activity is so simple that your elementary students should have no issues doing. All you need is green construction paper, cotton balls, and glue (or staples, tape).
Value: $ (very low) The art room should have these supplies, and if not the materials aren't that expensive.

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My husband happily introduced our children to Star Wars. I've encouraged the family passion a bit by creating Star Wars dolls for the children. My children are enjoying

My sister recently offered some Star Wars costumes for our children to borrow. They're quite awesome. However, our three year old (yes!) does not prefer to wear the Yoda mask. So...I made a simple Yoda ears "costume" from paper.

I am well-aware these Yoda ears are huge compared to my little Yoda.

I will try to explain how to make the Yoda ears headband. You could even make them from felt for added cuteness and durability.

1. Cut two long pieces of green construction paper 4 inches wide. Fold them in half, making the main part of the headband.
2. Cut ears from a matching piece of construction paper.
3. Place a cut ear inside the fold of the band. Fold the bottom up a bit. Secure it with tape.

4. Add the other part of the headband to lengthen the band. Secure with tape.
5. Secure the headband at the top with tape above the ear. Now it looks like the ear is coming out of the headband.
6. For the second ear, cut a slit where you want the ear to be. Place ear inside, overlapping at least an inch. Secure the Yoda ear with tape.
8. Reinforce the inside of the headband with clear packaging tape, if desired.
9. Staple the band together to form a circular headband.
7. Use quilt batting (or loosened cotton balls) to place hair around Yoda's ears and head. (More than one stripe of glue is needed. I added more glue later.
8. Teach your child to talk like Yoda, if desired. Ha! Another option would be to draw wrinkles on Yoda's forehead.

The Yoda ears were inspired by these adorable lamb ears. Little Sister brought them home from Community Bible Study and still wears them quite a bit. Aren't they some of the cutest ears you've ever seen? We thinks so!

If you love Star Wars, be sure to check out my Star Wars peg people. They're quite cute. I also wrote about Star Wars-themed gifts that my husband and children have appreciated over the years.

And if you need an old-fashioned costume, learn how to make felt braids.

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Are you ready for it? Tomorrow is the big day! The force awakens and we will be there to see it too. In 3D no less. Young movie fans will love this Star Wars play dough kit to imagine and build a Death Star. I am taking full advantage of my son's love for Star Wars with a few fun activities in preparation for the big day. Check out all of these awesome STAR WARS science and STEM activities too!

Star Wars Play Dough: Build a Death Star Challenge

I had started out with a completely different Star Wars play dough idea last week using our new squishy circuits kit. However, I told my son about it before I checked on all the ingredients for the right play doughs to go along with the kit. Yep, change of plans and quickly too. He was getting pretty sad when I said we couldn't do the original Death Star idea. Quick think of something. Usually my son is not one for straight play dough play, but I told him I could at least make some sort of black Star Wars play dough and he could build his own Death Star. Winner, winner!

Now to find a playdough recipe I did have the ingredients to make. I don't stock cream of tartar. To be very honest, I don't want to spend the money on it. I found this awesome and easy recipe for a no-cook, no tartar playdough recipe on Instructables.

Watch the video and make your own Star Wars play dough. I actually had a black watercolor tube, but you could use black food coloring. Or do your best to mix equal amounts of red, green, and blue food coloring for a dark grey.

I made some variations in the grey and black colors of our Star Wars play dough {mostly because I didn't really know how it was going to come out.} You need quite a good squeeze or two of the black watercolor gel to get a rich black. Please be advised that it did not stain our hands and they were easily washed. However, some color does come off the dark the dough. Be prepared with the right clothes and protected surfaces. You could also buy some black play dough too.

This Star Wars play dough activity turned into a super fun activity that we both enjoyed. Daddy can't wait to get home and make one too after I sent him a few pictures. I quickly gathered some supplies like LEGO bricks, pipe cleaners or straws {for lasers}, washers and nuts, and a round hard surface {optional}. I had this interesting plastic fillable snow globe thing I thought we could mold the dough around. You could also use a bowl flipped over or just make the play dough into a ball. Encourage your kids to do whatever they like with their Star Wars play dough. I also had to add a LEGO Darth Vader and Storm Troopers.

We checked out the Death Star on the iPad and loved the green lasers. We have also done a cool Death Star baking soda science activity since we this play dough one!

He found he could use the LEGO bricks to make patterns in the play dough or decorate the outside with washers. He got the lasers ready first thing and built an extra fighter with the LEGO pieces.

The sky is the limit when building your own Death Star with cool Star Wars play dough. I made one over a bowl to give a different idea. Here's my half a Death Star. I guess I can't wait for the movie too!

Clean up was easy and I am storing our Star Wars play dough in resealable bags to keep it moist. What will me make next? I heard something about a Millennium Falcon, so I can't wait to see what he comes up with for that one. My husband will have to get in on that fun with our new Star Wars play dough kit.
Build a Star Wars Death Star Challenge for Kids
Star Wars Play Dough Kit for Young Star Wars Fans
Check out more fun Star Wars Inspired Ideas. Click on photos below.

Some of our favorite STEM tools at home! Amazon Affiliate Disclosure: I receive compensation for any items sold through this site. Our ideas are always free to enjoy and try at school or home.

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Star Wars Play Dough Kit Build A Death Star

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Subject: Science (STEM)
STEM and Physics
Level: Middle and High School
The students get three options of Star War themed paper airplanes (The TIE Fighter, The X-Wing, and The Imperial Star Destroyer). Using their planes, the students can record their distance and time of each flight.
Value: $ (low) All you need is paper and the students can make their own charts for their data. (unless a template is found online).

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We love Star Wars and it is good for motivating a lot of learning around here. And since they are very active, activities that involve moving around are typically best.

A few weeks ago we participated in a paper airplane fly-off that was just tons of fun. So with the topic of paper airplanes on the mind, we decided to test a few Star Wars themed paper airplanes! Baloo and I constructed the airplanes using YouTube tutorials. I did try to design my own but it turns out that I don't really know much about paper airplane construction...or Star Wars vehicles!

Our 3 contestants:

The TIE Fighter
This was actually a fairly easy build and flew pretty well. We were dealing with some wind issues or I think this would have out performed the others easily.

The X-Wing This was not as easy a build but it did fly pretty well, considering. And it looks pretty cool!

The Imperial Star Destroyer
So this isn't really a paper airplane that is meant to fly. It is more origami and for display or fun. But they wanted it, so we built it. It didn't really fly so much as it fell through the air. It got some distance but only because they chucked it.

The trials. I printed out a recording sheet for each child and had them throw 3 times for each plane. Due to the wind, we had some good throws and some bad ones. I so wish we could have done this indoors.

Throw the plane, measure the distance.

All 3 boys had measuring practice today! We measured in inches and compared to centimeters.

Even Logi-Bear got in on the measuring action!
We wrote down the distance and time for each plane and then compared what we saw. Which flew furthest? Which flew longest? It actually wasn't the same! The TIE Fighter generally had longer flights. Interestingly, they each got different results.

When we were finished we incorporated some math review. How much further did the longest or than the shortest? How much longer did the longest fly than the shortest? What is the average of all the flights? If the TIE Fighterflew 13 feet 5 times in a row, how far would it have gone?

For Logi-Bear, just the comparison in length was great practice for greater than/less than.

Try this Star Wars Sensory Bin from Something 2Offer

The Jenny Evolution has some great Activity Books for All Ages

Yummy Rogue One Ice Cream recipe is a favourite from Nerdy Mamma

Share It! Science News has some fabulous Activities for Exploring Planets with 2 Suns!

Make some of these fabulous Droid Crafts from Play & Learn Everyday

These DIY Party Favours from Kidz Activities would be a hit at any party!

Mrs LeBlancs Learners are learning Star Wars in the Classroom

Defying Gravity! Sounds like great fun from Kid Minds

Make your own Airplane Fly Off like Royal Baloo!

Brush up on your galaxy sums with Daily Math from 3 Dinosaurs

KC Edventures is sharing a great Planets Math Activity

Erupting Death Star plus an I Spy Printable, some fun ideas from Little Bins

Peakle Pie shares some cute Paper Plate Ewoks

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We love Star Wars and it is good for motivating a lot of learning around here. And since they are very active, activities that involve moving around are typically best. A few weeks ago we participated in a paper airplane fly-off that was just tons of fun.

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Subject: English (Writing)
Reading Skills - Adjectives
Level: Middle/High school
All the teacher has to do is print out the worksheet, and let their students do the rest of the work. The worksheet is filled out to be followed and has blanks to fill in.
Value: $ (low) All the teacher has to 'buy' would be ink, and that could come from the school printer (if available).

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This task aims to practice reading skill and vocabulary related with physical description, it also aims to focus on the past simple. The reading is based on star wars characters. - ESL worksheets

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Subject:Math
Level:Elementary
Very Easy to Use
Free to print
Multiplication pack for Elementary level students to improve their math and specifically their multiplication skills.

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Subject: Math
Fraction Skills
Level: Elementary
Printable and easily able to be cut out.
You get 8 Stormtroopers that the students are able to cut out and rearrange as they please.
Value: $ (very low) Just ink from the printer.

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We have been on a huge Star War kick at our house. We have had tons of fun with the new various math activities with the Star Wars Themed Number Printable and the Star Wars Daily Math. We have been working on factions a little bit at our house and I thought it would be fun to do a hands on fraction activity to see the fraction and the number equation with it.

This is a great hands-on way to learn more about fractions.

You are going to see 8 fractions per page. Each page has a part of a fraction or a whole. You can see part of the stormtrooper or all the stormtrooper in the different fractions. This lets a visual learner see the fractions. As you get a bigger fraction you can see more of the stormtrooper.

You can do some simple matching games for kids just learning fractions. You give them some fractions Stormtroopers and the number fractions and have them match them.

You can have them match up the fractions that are all the same. You can see all the different types that all match up the same.

There are so many different ways you can use these printables. We have had tons of fun using them! For long term use, I recommend laminating the pages and cards. The mat is fun to use with your learning. Kids can do have on looking for the matching fraction stormtrooper and fraction number. It makes learning fun!
What you will find in these printables:

Comparing math mat

Fractions number cards: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, & 12

Stormtrooper fractions in fractions

12 pages total

Check out these other Star Wars & Space Printables and Activities:

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About Cassie

Cassie is a mom of three stomping, romping, and roaring girls. She blogs about fun art and craft activities and printables she makes. She includes the odd review of products every now and then. She also blogs about the places that she has taken the girls called trip reviews. She has a few free printable pack for kids ages 2 to 8 and always adding more. She loves to get comments and feedback and always looking for new things to try or do with her girls.

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Star Wars Math: Comparing Stormtrooper Fractions

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English
Writing
Level: Middle School
Very Easy to Use
Free to print
Easy to incorporate into your classroom. Includes vocabulary sheets and notebooks. Focuses on expanding your English vocabulary and writing skills

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Free Star Wars Unit Study and Printables (Middle School)

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Your star wars fans will have a blast learning all about their favorite movie with this free star wars unit study! Below you'll find resources for a free unit study, exclusive star wars printables and other star wars resources for your middle schooler. We've compiled various online resources including; videos, biographies and more.

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Art
Level: Elementary
Simple and fun to make
Requires a couple of on-hand materials and is cost-effective
Great for sensory learning and is an exciting science experiment for young students.

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Are you excited for the new Star Wars movie to come out! Do you love slimes? We do. We do! Our fun and easy Star Wars slime has a cool twist. It glows in the dark! Dig out your LEGO light sabers and make our Star Wars slime for neat sensory and science play any day!

Lego Light Saber Star Wars Slime

Easy to make glow in the dark slime for the Star Wars fan!

We turned one of our favorite slime recipes into a Lego Star Wars slime for May the 4th Be With You Blog Hop! Our easy liquid starch slime recipe plus one simple ingredient makes an awesome glow in the dark slime.

We used some of our favorite Lego guys and light sabers to makes this awesome Star Wars slime for cool science. Check out our whole STAR WARS THEMED STEM IDEAS for the 4th too.
STAR WARS SCIENCE AND STEM FOR KIDS

MAKE YOUR STAR WARS SLIME TODAY!

SUPPLIES:

Liquid Starch

Elmer's Washable White School Glue

Water

Glow In The Dark Paint

Container, Measuring Cup, Spoon

READERS: We have given each of our slime recipes there own page to properly show the instructions. Please or the black box above for the glow in the dark slime recipe.

SLIME TIPS

I made one simple addition to our glow in the dark slime recipe. When I mixed the glue and water together, I added about 3 drops of blue food coloring to give this light saber Star Wars slime a subtle glowing blue color.

THE SCIENCE BEHIND THE HOMEMADE SLIME RECIPE

What's the science behind the slime? The borate ions in the starch {or borax powder or boric acid} mixes with the PVA {polyvinyl-acetate} glue and forms this cool stretchy substance. This is called cross linking!

The glue is a polymer and is made up of long, repeating, and identical strands or molecules. These molecules with flow past one another keeping the glue in a liquid state.

The addition of water is important to this process. Think about when you leave a gob of glue out, and you find it hard and rubbery the next day.

When you add the borate ions to the mixture, it starts to connect these long strands together. They begin to tangle and mix until the substance is less like the liquid you started with and is thicker and rubberier like slime!

Read all about the science behind the slime for young kids here.

We added as many light sabers as we could find to decorate our Star Wars slime. Then some of our favorite LEGO Star Wars characters to join us.

Our easy slime recipe has taken on so many themes for season and holidays. We love Legos and Star Wars, so it was a lot of fun for my son to mix the two together. Store your Star Wars slime in a plastic container with a loose lid to enjoy all week long.

Please make sure to wash hands and surfaces thoroughly after playing with slime. It is a chemistry experiment after all!

Most of our Star Wars slime play happened in a dim room. We would charge the slime with the lamp and play until it went dim and recharged it over and over again. It's not easy to get glow in the dark photos, but you get the idea. It's pretty cool just the same.

YOU CAN ALSO MAKE: Star Wars Play Dough Invitation To Build

This Star Wars slime is not messy on the hands but loves to spread out. Slime is a true liquid but a thick one. It's fun to hold it and let it ooze right out of your hand. Some slimes like our homemade flubber or our sand slime are super stretchy.

ALSO CHECK OUT: Star Wars Ice Melting Science Activity

Act out your own Star Wars adventures with out Glowing Light Saber Star Wars slime.

See what other awesome ideas are being featured for Star Wars Day!

Star Wars Tatooine Desert Sensory Bin - Frogs and Snails and Puppy Dog Tails

Star Wars Family Fun for May 4th - Mama Smiles

Star Wars kids' embroidery: Yoda quote - Hodge Podge Craft

Star Wars R2-D2 Craft for Kids - Mom Inspired Life

Make Your Own Star Wars Landscape - Planet Smarty Pants

Yoda Puppet Star Wars Craft - Coffee Cups and Crayons

Counting Blocks Light Saber - Sugar Aunts

Awesome Star Wars ABC Games with Printable- JDaniel4's Mom

Star Wars Children's Books - Kelly's Classroom

Make a Toilet Paper Roll Yoda ‎ - Kitchen Counter Chronicles

Crayon Resist Death Star - Fun-A-Day!

Light Up May the Fourth Be With You Cards - Left Brain Craft Brain

Star Wars Day Perler Bead Pattern R2-D2 Brain Power Boy

LEGO Star Wars Putty - The Pleasantest Thing

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Star Wars Slime Lego Light Saber Glow In the Dark Slime

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Are you excited for the new Star Wars movie to come out! Do you love slimes? We do. We do! Our fun and easy Star Wars slime has a cool twist. It glows in the dark! Dig out your LEGO light sabers and make our Star Wars slime for neat sensory and science play any day!

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Math
Level: Elementary
Easy to use
Free and printable
Instructs students how to follow directions while teaching them more about colors and numbers.

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Does your child love Star Wars film series? Here are free printable star wars coloring pages for your kids to enjoy. There are classic original Star Wars characters like Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader, and characters from the new movies, such as Rey and Jyn. Just click and print.

Star Wars Color by Number

Mandalorian Flying with Baby Yoda

Here is our 4 page coloring mural of the Mandalorian and Baby Yoda flying in the air. Great for group projects or for those looking for bigger challenge.

Star Wars Coloring Mural

Grab this 6 page coloring mural of Luke Skywalker fighting Darth Vader in a lighsaber duel. Great for group projects or for those looking for greater challenge.

Star Wars Rebels Mural

Coloring Squared will try to get you a new math coloring worksheets often. Give us some feedback on the Star Wars coloring pages you have used and enjoyed. Or, tell us what you would like to see in one of our next worksheets or coloring books.
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We hope kids enjoyed these free math coloring worksheets. If you're looking to practice math concepts like addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, number sense and more, try out our Free Math Coloring Pages . We also have your favorite characters from Minecraft, Angry Birds, Disney Princess, Transformers, Comic Book heroes and more... Comics, Cartoons, and Video Games . More free activities for kids will be coming soon. Come back often to see what's new!

Coloring Squared: Pixel Art and Math for Kids

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Does your child love Star Wars film series? Here are free printable star wars coloring pages for your kids to enjoy. There are classic original Star Wars characters like Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader, and characters from the new movies, such as Rey and Jyn. Just click and print.

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Writing
English Language
Level: All ages
Easy to download and print
A free PDF which will help students to write creatively and practice their writing skills
Encourages use of imagination and deepens knowledge of the English language

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Math
Multiplication Skills
Level: Elementary
Easy and free to print
Helps students to practice their math skills in an entertaining way with easy to read text/visuals.

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Reading
English Language
Level: Middle/High School
Easy to download and print
Few materials needed: Scissors, glue/tape, Cardstock paper
Free to download, materials are cost effective
Encourages students to read more while also tracking their progress

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Just print and begin your journey back to the prime of the Jedi.
Kelly Knox Crafty Geek and Geeky Crafter

Which adventure in Star Wars: The High Republic is next on your To Be Read (TBR) list? If you're not certain, we're here to help. This printable bookmark has a list of current and upcoming 2021 releases for this exciting new era of Star Wars . Keep track of the tale as it makes its way across the stars through novels, graphic novels, and comic books.

From the first story of disaster and perseverance in , to the action-packed graphic novel Light of the Jedi Monster of Temple Peak in the summer, to the journey of Lily Tora-Asi in The Edge of Balance this fall , this list has everything to watch for in the first phase of High Republic storytelling. You won't miss any of the electrifying galaxy-spanning story with this bookmark in hand.

Step 1: Download the template and print it!*
*The activities in this article should only be done with adult supervision.
Step 2: Cut out the bookmark along the gray lines with scissors or a paper cutter.

Step 3: Use the bookmark as-is or glue it to your favorite color of cardstock, construction paper, or patterned scrapbook paper. Let it dry and trim it again, and you're ready to go back to an even longer time ago in a galaxy far, far away.

Visit Lucasfilm's official hub for all things Star Wars: The High Republic at StarWars.com/TheHighRepublic.

Kelly Knox writes features and DIYs for StarWars.com. Her writing can also be seen on Marvel, DC Comics, IGN, and more. Follow her on Twitter at @kelly_knox to talk Star Wars , games, and crafts.

Site tags: #StarWarsBlog, #TheHighRepublic, #StarWarsCrafts

TAGS: star wars crafts, Star Wars: The High Republic, The High Republic bookmark

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Let This DIY Bookmark Be Your Guide to Star Wars: The High Republic | StarWars.com

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Early elementary
All in one easy to use pack
Activities for a theme day

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Just in time for May 4th a Free Star Wars Pack!

These Star Wars printables are to be used with children from 2 to 7. This pack was made to go with the following books: Star Wars ABC and Star Wars: 1, 2, 3.

This is a joint project with Royal Baloo! Be sure to check out her post as well!

Graphics from Scrappin Doodle

Star Wars Pack contains over 65 pages with some of the following:
3 Part Cards, Which One is Different, What Comes Next?, Pre-Writing Practice, Pattern Cards, Matching Cards, 4 Part Puzzles, 10 Part Puzzles, Clip & Count 0 to 15, Beginning Sound, Pock Chart Cards, Beginning Sound Writing, Trace the Word, Write the Word, Writing, Color & Trace, Cutting Practice, Matching Pictures & Words, Matching Pictures, Find the Same, Color by Size, Math Sheets, Color the Story, Fill in the Missing Numbers, Math Matching, Roll & Count, Roll & Count Math, Color the Pattern, Fill in the Missing parts, Dolch Preprimer Sight Words Star Wars.

Tot Pack contains 27 pages:
Basic Prewriting, 2 Part Puzzles, Cutting Practice, Color the Droid, Trace the Shapes, Star Wars Matching, Dot the Letter, 9 Piece Puzzle

(Sorry no blank pack for this set)

Here are some other books or items we will be using with this pack:

Other Free Star Wars Printables:

Cassie - 3Dinosaurs.com

About Cassie

Cassie is a mom of three stomping, romping, and roaring girls. She blogs about fun art and craft activities and printables she makes. She includes the odd review of products every now and then. She also blogs about the places that she has taken the girls called trip reviews. She has a few free printable pack for kids ages 2 to 8 and always adding more. She loves to get comments and feedback and always looking for new things to try or do with her girls.

This entry was posted in printable pack and tagged printables, star wars. Bookmark the permalink.

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Just in time for May 4th a Free Star Wars Pack! These Star Wars printables are to be used with children from 2 to 7. This pack was made to go with the following books: Star Wars ABC and Star Wars: 1, 2, 3. This is a joint project with Royal Baloo!

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Math
Addition/Multiplication
Elementary
Construction of game from paper necessary
Practice with facts

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The new Star Wars is out and my kids are so excited! I'm sure they're not the only ones. We've also made our goal for December to finish memorizing our math facts! Thus, the Star Wars math game just had to be made! It's a fairly simple game yet a lot of fun. I hope you enjoy!

This is part of a 3 days series just for Star Wars! Check back in tomorrow for a fun Star Wars easy reader (or sign up for the newsletter where you'll be up to date on everything going on!)

P.S. The free newsletter peeps receive an exclusive freebie every week!

How to Set Up the Star Wars Math Game

I print everything on cardstock. I think laminating the spinner would be a good idea as ours got a little bent up. Other than that, cardstock is great!

Just cut everything out and shuffle the cards!

(our game board looks a bit different as we had to adjust the game play to make more sense.)

The game comes with it's own pieces. They're quite simple to put together! Just cut them out like this:

And take the ends together in the back! This will allow it to stand up on the game board.

To put the game board together:

The game board comes in two pieces. Cut off the edge of one sheet of paper so you can line up the board.

Carefully line up each sheet so you have a complete board and tape it together! We use packing tape on the back and it holds well.

How to Play the Star Wars Addition and Multiplication Game

The goal of the game is to build your millennium falcon and escape the First Order!

I have to send a little shout out to Andrea! She commented on the Minecraft game with some alternate suggestions - including having both addition and multiplication on one card! Genius! Now I could play with all the boys and they all were working on their math facts at the same time. It went over very well! Thank you for the idea Andrea!

Game play is simple - You can start anywhere on the board - just pick a spot! Spin the spinner and move that number of spaces in either direction. If you land on an orange square you pick up a BB8 Card. You must answer the addition or multiplication problem correctly to keep the card. On the back of the card is a piece of the millennium falcon.

If you land on a white space, collect a Kylo Ren card and answer the problem.

Continue taking turns and collecting pieces until someone (or everyone) has built their millennum falcon!

We did allow trading towards the end as the same people kept getting the same pieces.

You can obviously adjust game play as necessary. If you have a suggestion to make it even better, feel free to leave a comment!

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The new Star Wars is out and my kids are so excited! I'm sure they're not the only ones. We've also made our goal for December to finish memorizing our math facts! Thus, the Star Wars math game just had to be made! It's a fairly simple game yet a lot of fun.

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Science
Chemistry
Elementary
Easy to read information for elementary students
Experimenting with solutions, solutes, molecules, crystal formation

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Every kid loves the galaxy. There is something completely fascinating about space, spaceships, space travel, and how things work in space. Explore all of these themes all while learning about crystal science with the galaxy sugar crystal science experiment!

Kids will love making these sweet and edible sugar crystals, which makes it the perfect crystal science fair project, because who doesn't love delicious edible science?

Expand on sugar crystal science when you add the STEM extension ideas below and turn your science experiment into a complete STEM activity!

Don't forget to check out the complete list of summer STEM activities and the complete list of summer science experiments.

How to Make Crystals with Sugar

Read on to find out how to make your very own galaxy sugar crystal science experiment!

For more fun space theme activities, try our list of space activities, make a solar system mobile, try your own backyard space camp, or make planet slime!

The Science of Sugar Crystals in a Jar

During the summer, the last thing any child wants to do is learn, right?

But what if you could make learning so fun that kids begged to do it? That is where summer science experiments come in.

During the summer, we like to focus on hands-on science experiments and STEM activities with our kids, and they look forward to doing them every year.

Not only do they get the benefit of using their brains during the summer, but doing learning activities over the summer also provides the following benefits:

Improved science grades

Interest in science and math

Screen-free fun

Increased knowledge over the summer

Prevention of summer slide

Making the galaxy sugar crystal science experiment is one of our favorite summer science experiments!

Don't Miss: Creative STEM Activities for Kids

What Are Sugar Crystals?

A crystal is an example of an ionic bond between molecules. An ionic bond is an inflexible bonding of molecules that forms on a repeating pattern.

The molecules only bond in a specific pattern, which makes each type of crystal have a unique structure.

Most crystals are formed with minerals, but a few other organic materials can form crystallized shapes as well, including snowflakes and sugar.

Rock candy is an iconic and common representation of sugar crystals.

The most fun thing about sugar crystal science is that you can eat it afterward!

You'll Also Like: Summer Slime Recipes

How Are Sugar Crystals Made?

Use this activity to explore the science behind sugar crystals. Use our science experiment worksheet to record your experiment results.

Each grain of sugar is made up of small crystals that are arranged into a specific pattern. Granulated sugar is made up of sucrose molecules.

Sugar crystals are formed when the sugar molecules connect, forming specific molecular chains, that form a larger crystal shape.

Sugar dissolves in water because the bond between sugar molecules is weaker than the bond that forms between sugar and water molecules.

When you add more sugar to boiling water than can dissolve in the water, it creates a super-saturated solution.

Hot water can hold more sugar molecules than cold water, so as the solution cools, the sugar molecules start bonding again, forming large sugar crystals in the water.

The longer the solution sits, the bigger your sugar crystals will get. You can speed the crystallization process by cooling your solution in the refrigerator.

You'll also want to try: STEM Activities for Elementary

Are Sugar Crystals Minerals?

The short answer is no. To be a mineral, a crystal has to be formed from inorganic material (something that doesn't come from a living organisim).

Since sugar comes from a living organism (originally a sugar cane plant), it can form crystals, but they are not minerals.

How to Make Sugar Crystals for a Science Project

Turn your sugar crystals into a science project by adding these STEM elements to your experiment.

Science: Solutions, solutes, density, molecules, sugar crystal formation, crystal science

Technology: Learn about galaxies, nebulae, and space

Engineering: Perfecting the recipe to maximize crystal production, designing crystal look

Math: Measuring, comparing, adjusting recipes, calculating crystallization time

Rock Candy Experiment Worksheet

Grab the worksheet below and complete your sugar crystal science lesson!

Get the lesson plan for the sugar crystal science experiment! Everything you need to teach kids about science crystals with NGSS aligned concepts!

What You Need to Make the Sugar Crystal Recipe:
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How to Make Edible Sugar Crystals

Making edible sugar crystals is easy.

First, boil two cups of water in a medium saucepan.

Add six cups of sugar to the solution and stir until dissolved.

Be careful not to boil the sugar too long, or else soft candy will start to form, which will ruin the crystal shape. You only want to heat the sugar long enough to dissolve in the water.

Once the sugar is dissolved, pour it carefully into three jars.

Color one jar blue, one jar pink, and one jar orange.

Sprinkle some edible glitter into each jar and stir.

Add a small bead or marble to the jar to encourage the crystals to form around the center of the jar. If you don't add the small object, the crystals will form around the sides of the jar.

That can also look pretty, but it will be harder to examine the crystals. You can also use a string and popsicle stick to form the crystals around that.

Let the solution cool and sit for at least a week.

You can speed up the crystallization process by cooling the sugar solution in the refrigerator, but your crystals will come out sticky.

Once the crystals are as large as you would like them, pour out any remaining sugar water. Flip the jars upside down on a paper towel and let any excess liquid drip out.

Heat the sides of the jar to release the crystals from the jar (or leave them in).

Now you've made rock candy! You can eat it if you like.
Galaxy Oobleck Science Experiment DIY Galaxy Slime
Use a magnifying glass to examine the crystals.
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What patterns can you find?

Break a small crystal piece off and examine under a microscope. Is the pattern the same under the microscope?

More Galaxy Experiments

How to Make Fluffy Galaxy Slime (Just 3 ingredients!)

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Every kid loves the galaxy. There is something completely fascinating about space, spaceships, space travel, and how things work in space. Explore all of these themes all while learning about crystal science with the galaxy sugar crystal science experiment!

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Have you ever wondered what our planet would be like if we had two suns like the planet Tatooine? What if we had two moons? Are the planets in the Star Wars movie realistic at all?

Let's answer those questions and have some fun with some hands-on science activities!

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You may have observed that Luke Skywalker's home planet, Tatooine, had two suns. Astronomers have found evidence of a planet outside of our solar system that is orbiting two stars. This planet, Kepler-16b, is part of a system much like George Lucas's fictional planet, Tatooine.

On Earth we have one sun, that provides us with light and heat. It holds our planet in orbit. It affects the seasons on Earth. How would this change if we had two suns? If Earth were like Kepler-16b we'd experience slightly colder temperatures because we'd be at a greater distance from the sun.

Kepler-16b's suns are slightly smaller than our sun, so the pull of gravity would be less and we'd have a longer year because we'd orbit more slowly. If we had two suns the same size as our sun, then we'd have a faster orbit and a shorter year. Scientists aren't sure if a moon would form in this type of system, so our nights would be a little bit different, and the ocean tides would be affected.

from NASA that models the rotation of Earth and the night/day cycle. You'll need a globe (or a large ball) and a flashlight. Once you've tried this out under "normal" circumstances for Earth, try it again with two suns, or in other words, two flashlights.

How does this change where the people on Earth are experiencing daylight?

Does it make the days longer or shorter?

What effect do you think this has on the seasons?

How might the human sleep cycle, or circadian rhythm be altered by having two suns? Would other animals and plants be affected too?

What would our planet be like if there were two moons rotating around it? Earth is the only planet in our solar system with just one moon. Some planets do not have any natural satellites, whereas others have dozens.

Our moon and its gravitational force gives the ocean its tides, is the reason we have a 24 hour day and it keeps the planet at the tilt that gives us seasons. The moon reflects the sunlight in the night time and we can view its phases and eclipses. How would all of this be different if we had two moons?

Night time would be brighter, which would affect nocturnal animals. Tides would be much more extreme. Our calendar, which is based on the cycle of the moon's phases (each cycle = approx. 1 month, or "moonth")

Try the "Dance of the Moon and Oceans" as a movement activity with several kids to learn about the tides. How would this movement change if there were more than one moon in this "dance"?

If you do not have a group of kids to try this with, you can learn about the tides through this video.

How would having two moons change how our tides work?

How would more extreme tides affect life on Earth?

What about the moon's phases and eclipses? Would we still see the moon the same way if there were two of them?

Try this: First, model the phases of the moon to get the hang of what is really happening up there. You can model it the way Emily Morgan, author of"Next Time You See the Moon", does it here:

Now add in another moon. You might have to find a friend to help. Experiment with where you place the moon.

Have the moon's phases changed?

How is this affecting the night sky on the Earth?

What if one moon were orbiting faster than the other? How would that change things?

Are there other planets that resemble the fictional ones in the Star Wars universe? Yup. But they aren't in our solar system! Exoplanet OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb resembles the fictional cold world planet, Hoth. Mustafar, a hot molten world in Star Wars is similar toKepler-10b andKepler-78b.Kepler-22b is thought to be like the fictional ocean world, Kamino. It is also believed that there are real-life similarities out there to Princess Leia's home planet, Alderaan and to Endor, home of the Ewoks.

Still Interested? Read more:

Join us as we celebrate Star Wars Day - May 4th with some wonderful galactic inspired crafts, recipes and activity ideas!

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Have you ever wondered what our planet would be like if we had two suns like the planet Tatooine? What if we had two moons? Are the planets in the Star Wars movie realistic at all? Let's answer those questions and have some fun with some hands-on science activities!

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In the middle of our defying gravity experiment my 3-year old walked into the room and saw Luke Skywalker hanging upside down on a paper clip connected to a magnet (photo below). " Why is it not falling?" he demanded, his eyes wide with wonder. Even a 3-year old has a pretty good notion of how gravity works.

Star Wars is of huge interest to all my kids. Since we haven't actually seen any of the movies, except my oldest son who watched bits of A New Hope, all the excitement comes from books. We read a lot of Star Wars books. If Amazon sells it, we have probably read it. We also read aloud the original Star Wars trilogy book.

What I love about Star Wars is that it's so easy to turn it into a lesson on any subject.

Let's write a letter to Luke Skywalker. English.

Five stormtroopers boarded the jet and three more storm troopers joined them. Math.

Velocity? Acceleration? Two sun planets? Science.

One of the science concepts that caught my kids' interest is gravity. We decided it would be fun to explore this topic in more detail, do a couple of simple experiments (with Star Wars Lego characters) and answer some questions.

What is gravity? How strong is it? And can we break it?

Gravity as a force that keeps us on the ground. It is also keeping Earth and the other planets in our Solar system close to Sun. It is strong enough to hold us to the surface of the planet. It is strong enough to hold molecules of gas in the atmosphere. Gravity is one of the rare scientific concepts that is easy to see. Just pick up any toy and let it go. It will fall down. The force of the pull depends on the mass of the object. Does it mean a piano will fall out of the window faster than a tennis ball? Let's try the first experiment.

Experiment 1: Gravity

What you need

Star Wars Lego Characters

Blocks or books for stacking

Pan with flour (optional, but oh so fun)

Objective

To build a bridge over a pan filled with flour and flip the characters of different sizes at the same time to see if they all land the same time.

Procedure

Find Star Wars Lego characters of different sizes. We picked a smaller, lighter and rounder R2-D2 to be our lightest object. We picked a heavier and bulkier Storm Trooper and made him even heavier by giving him a weapon (our heaviest object). And we decided that Luke will make a good medium weight object if we give him a light gun.

If you don't have Star Wars Lego Characters just pick any 2 objects: heavy and light.

To make the experiment more exciting and to make sure all the characters fall at the same time, we decided to build a gravity station. Use blocks or books to create two stacks. Put a ruler or any other flat, straight object across the void. Place a pan with flour under the ruler.

Ask your kids, "Do you think these three characters will hit the ground at the same time?" Older kids can record their predictions in a science journal.

Flip the ruler.

"What happened?"

You should have heard only one thud as all the characters hit the flour at exactly the same time.

Repeat as needed to make absolutely sure.

The only reason we used the pan with flour is that, according to my kids, it makes it much more exciting and we are all about being excited here! But you can make an additional study of imprints and how depth varies between objects of different sizes and weights.

If you don't want to bother with the bridge and a flour pan, just pick two objects, stand over an even surface and drop your items from the same height at the same time. Did your objects reach the ground at the same time?

Of course my kids are obsessed with anything sensory and they spent the next few hours playing with Lego Star Wars characters having all kinds of misadventures in the pan of flour.
It seems strange but objects that weigh a lot fall at the same speed that objects that weigh a little.
Can the force of gravity be defied? Do you know that when you jump, for just a second, you are defying gravity? Can you think of some other examples where gravity can be broken? What about static electricity that causes your hair stand up on end? What about magnets? Can magnets prevent a paper clip from falling down?

If you are familiar with the classical magnets-paper clip experiment, you know that a paper clip will rais in the air and hover, if there is a magnet placed over it.
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As you can see the paper clip is prevented from flying towards the magnet because the string is attached to the paper clip and taped to the bottom of the box. The magnet is pulling the paper clip up and since it can't quite reach the magnet, it just hangs in the air defying gravity.

Magnets and paper clips are fascinating. Thinking back to our Lego Man Goes Skiing experiment last winter, we got an idea to try paper clips and magnets to show how Star Wars Characters will NOT fall down when they should be falling down.

Experiment 2: Defying Gravity

Our original idea was to attach paper clips to the Star Wars Lego characters with tape. Tie a string around the characters and tape the string to the ground. Then use a heavy magnet to raise the Star Wars characters in the air. Our hypotheses was that the magnet would pull the paper clips up and the characters will hover. Unfortunately, our hypothesis didn't work out because our magnets were not strong enough to keep the characters in the air. We are still looking for stronger magnets that will let us keep the Lego men in the air but for now we modified the experiment, so that we could still defy gravity even with weaker magnets.

Star Wars Lego Characters

Blocks or books

Pan with flour

Paper Clips

Tape (to attach paper clips)

Magnets (affiliate link)

To check if we can defy gravity using magnets and paper clips taped to Star Wars characters.

We tried different variations of taping paper clips to Star Wars Lego characters and I'm here to tell you that against all logic more is NOT better. The more bulky the tape, the less it holds the paper clips. What worked best for us is when I cut a thin strip and then cut it in half.

Use the bridge from experiment 1 or build a new one.

Place magnets on top of a ruler. (You might need to experiment to find a ruler that is thin enough for magnets to work).

Place the characters under the bridge, right under the magnets. Let go off your characters.

My kids were amazed that the magnet would hold a character in the air, even when the paper clip only touches the ruler by the very tip of one side.

My kids enjoyed moving the characters around by shifting the magnets.

Sometimes characters didn't make it through the abyss.

Once you attach paper clips to Lego characters you can start experimenting with placing them around the house. It's interesting to see how magnets and paper clips prevent the characters from falling when they should be falling otherwise. Here is a Storm Trooper hanging the side of our craft table.

This begs a question: What is more powerful gravity or magnetism?

What do you think?

Magnetism can work against gravity, but does it mean it is stronger? In fact, scientists are still debating the ultimate answer to this question ( here a quick read for parents, if you want to learn more on this subject), for now I told my kids that Gravity and Magnetism are both strong forces and they would have to wait until they are older and discover the answer on their own.

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STAR WARS BLOG HOP

Star Wars enthusiasts are ready to enjoy Star Wars activities any day of the year, but they might enjoy it even more on May 4th, the day that has officially became known as a Star Wars Day. " May the 4th be with you!" Who can resist the catchphrase? To celebrate the occasion I have joined a couple of cool bloggers to bring you even more Star Wars themed activities. You can visit the Star Wars Blog Hop Homepage by clicking here or click individual links below for creative activities, recipes, crafts and more.

Try this Star Wars Sensory Bin from Something 2Offer

The Jenny Evolution has some great Activity Books for All Ages

Yummy Rogue One Ice Cream recipe is a favourite from Nerdy Mamma

Share It! Science News has some fabulous Activities for Exploring Planets with 2 Suns!

Make some of these fabulous Droid Crafts from Play & Learn Everyday

These DIY Party Favours from Kidz Activities would be a hit at any party!

Mrs LeBlancs Learners are learning Star Wars in the Classroom

Defying Gravity! Sounds like great fun from Kid Minds

Make your own Airplane Fly Off like Royal Baloo!

Brush up on your galaxy sums with Daily Math from 3 Dinosaurs

KC Edventures is sharing a great Planets Math Activity

Erupting Death Star plus an I Spy Printable, some fun ideas from Little Bins

Peakle Pie shares some cute Paper Plate Ewoks

If you are a blogger and want to share your Star Wars ideas with us, please, link them up below after 2pm CT on April 30th.

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Have I mentioned how much my son loves Star Wars? These days he seems to be nothing short of obsessed. To capitalize on his newfound interest, I decided to help him write his own Star Wars adventures. To make this less like a writing exercise and more like a game, I took cues from Education.com's Fairy Tale Dice activity.

I used Styrofoam cubes purchased from a local craft store, covered them in construction paper, and added stickers from a Star Wars Lego sticker book. While I made a total of six dice, fewer would work just as well. You want to have at least three though:

One with six different characters.

One with six verbs (e.g., fights, rescues, captures, escapes, flies, and helps).

Others can have enemies, places, or adjectives.

I color-coded my blocks (good guys and ships are white, bad guys and their vehicles are brown, and verbs are green). Once your dice are made, print some handwriting paper (I like the printable handwriting papers on DonnaYoung.com).

Now it's time for your son/daughter to get rolling (forgive the corny pun). As your child rolls the dice, help them weave together the characters, verbs, and places into a story.

I was amazed the first time I 'played' this with my son! I wrote on the top of his first page, "In a galaxy far far away." He kept wanting to roll more and soon had written "Han Solo and a Ewok rescued a rebel trooper from a battle droid." That is quite possibly the longest sentence I have EVER gotten him to write at home. It was such a beautiful moment I swear I could hear a choir singing "Hallelujah." Now each time we get out the Star Wars Story Dice, we add one new sentence to his story.

Tip: To make it seem more like a real book, put the pages into a 3-pronged folder.

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This is a big week for Star Wars fans every where including myself, my son, and my husband! I made these fun and easy, glowing light saber sensory bottles for my son to enjoy. Yes, they glow in the dark just like our Star Wars slime! Why not try a few Star Wars activities at home to build the excitement. Of course, if your house is anything like ours, Star Wars is a hit all year round.

GLOWING STAR WARS LIGHT SABER BOTTLES

We love sensory bottles, so I was pretty excited to try out these glow in the dark light saber sensory bottles with my son. We also have a fun Minion sensory bottle, TMNT sensory bottle, and rainbow glitter bottles. Our light saber sensory bottles are super easy to make and a fun craft time activity for the not so crafty kids like my son. A few supplies and you are ready!

Supplies Used for Light Saber Sensory Bottles
Glitter glue {alternatively you can use clear glue, food coloring, and glitter seen here} Charcoal Grey/Black Sparkle Tape {also has a neat rough texture to it}
MAKE LIGHT SABER SENSORY BOTTLES

Step 1: Add about 1/3 of the glitter glue to the water bottle. You can also do this with clear glue and add a drop of food coloring and shake or two of glitter. The blue light saber sensory bottle is made with glitter glue. The green light saber sensory bottle is made with the clear glue method, but you may want to add more clear glue. The glue simply slows the glitter while it settles.

Step 2: Fill with water if the bottle was empty and mix/shake to get the glue distributed evenly.

Step 4: Add your glow sticks. We bought a box of 100 for Halloween treats and had a ton left.

Step 5: Decorate your light saber sensory bottles with cool colored tapes to make a handle.

HOW TO MAKE HANDLES ON LIGHT SABER SENSORY BOTTLE

If you want your bottles to look like ours read below. Encourage your kids to come up with their own ideas too! We have several variations we tried together. Younger children may need more help with the tapes as my son did.

I used both silvery wide tape and narrow dark grey or black glitter tape to give it a metallic look. Hey, if you have duct tape and electric tape at home, go for it! I removed the cap and wrapped it in the silver tape first. I did not try to cut the excess tape since the tape is wider than the cap. I simply pressed it into the underside of the cap instead. Re-cap the bottle. {This could be done before you fill the bottles.}

Next, just underneath where the cap meets, I wrapped another silver piece of tape around the bottle itself. Don't go over the cap. This way you can take out your glow sticks and add fresh ones if you want! I added a strip of the darker tape at the top and bottom of the silver tape. You can also add buttons or other design elements.

Your light saber sensory bottles are complete. You could also do a red light saber bottle! However, I wouldn't go into a light saber dual with these. They were a very cool and fun activity to do with my son. My husband thought they were pretty neat too. We added our light saber sensory bottles to my son's desk and used them for a night light instead of his glowing stars. The glow sticks are easy to take out and change with an adults help.

May the force be with you! Hope you enjoy the new Star Wars movie!

Make Glowing Light Saber Sensory Bottles with your kids!
Check out our Death Star play dough kit too! More fun ways to enjoy Star Wars activities. Click on photos.

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In this episode of Let's Make Star Wars, Sean and Marissa teach you how to make a marble puzzle that looks like the trenches on the Death Star! Using just some cardboard, construction paper, and glue, you can build your own and challenge your friends to see who can get to the exhaust port fastest!

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Jamie Greene Full-time geeky parent

As fans today, through everything from films to novels to comics to animation to video games, we're enjoying some of the absolute best stories ever told. And it's never been a better time be a kid taking their first steps into the larger world of Star Wars storytelling.

In celebration of Star Wars Reads this October, we're shining a light on the veritable galaxy of Star Wars books available to capture the attention and imaginations of kids and younger readers. But don't let the "young reader" label fool you. Even though many of the books on our list primarily target elementary and middle-grade readers, there's absolutely nothing preventing readers of all ages - including adults - from cracking them open and enjoying them alone or while reading aloud. They're excellent stories from excellent authors. So with that in mind, here's a collection of more than a dozen of our favorite recent releases, roughly arranged according to age...

We learned the alphabet with A, B, C-3PO. We practiced counting with Obi-One, Two, Three. We got in touch with our emotions with Search Your Feelings. And now we're exploring contrasting sizes and out-of-this-world animal species with Creatures Big & Small. Just as delightful as the first three, this book helps young Padawans recognize the relative sizes of familiar creatures in the Star Wars galaxy. Accompanying Katie Cook's achingly adorable art are charming poems that go well beyond the simple "big versus small." You'll not find more adorable porgs, tookas, tauntauns, fathiers, rancors, or purrgil anywhere.

Turns out Anakin isn't the only one who hates sand. This adorable picture book finds C-3PO, R2-D2, and BB-8 on Tatooine, trying to complete a secret mission for the Resistance. And, you guessed it, everything goes sideways for our droid trio, despite C-3PO's determined effort to stay on track.

3. Resistance Heroes and First Order Villains (Level 2 Readers) (written by Michael Siglain; illustrated by Diogo Saito and Luigi Aime; published by Disney Lucasfilm Press)

If you're a teacher or have beginning readers in your house, then you're likely already familiar with the leveled reader series of books, which are intended to gradually help kids become independent readers. Level 2 books target "junior readers" in kindergarten through 2nd grade and include simple storylines, compound sentences, and contractions. These two books tie in to Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker and focus on our heroes and villains, respectively.

Perfect for reading aloud or independent reading, this collection of eight stories (one for each of the first eight films in the Skywalker saga) is a charming retelling of the saga through character spotlights and vignettes. Read straight through or jump around. The Star Wars: Return of the Jedi story, for example, is structured to teach younglings more about Jabba the Hutt and Wicket while they also learn the story of the film. And with all-new art, it's a great choice for bedtime.

Want to revisit the first eight films in the Skywalker saga through phenomenally beautiful art and a stunning adaptation from a fan-favorite author? Delilah Dawson ( Phasma, Black Spire) retells the Skywalker saga - from Star Wars: The Phantom Menace through Star Wars: The Last Jedi - in a way that seriously echoes the vintage movie storybooks from the original trilogy. If you grew up reading, and loving, those classic hardcovers, then you owe it to the little ones in your life to add this gorgeous and massive book to their collection.

If your young reader wants to jump into the world of Star Wars graphic storytelling but isn't quite ready for the Marvel comics series, there's no better place to start than here. IDW's Star Wars Adventures series presents brilliant all-ages stories that encompass the entire saga. There's something for everyone: from self-contained short stories to serialized mini-epics featuring all the main characters - from The Phantom Menace to The Last Jedi (and beyond). New issues come out monthly, and six collections have been released so far, with Volume 7 due out in November.

Spinning off from the core Star Wars Adventures series, Tales from Vader's Castle was a weekly event series of spooky tales that led up to Halloween last year. In the sequel series running all of October, the special five-issue run will arrive in comic shops weekly to tell five tales of all-ages frights. Each issue will focus on a different villain (from Darth Maul to Asajj Ventress to Jabba the Hutt), and even though they're a perfect pairing with the spirit of the Halloween season, they're great fun any time of year.

The seventh book in the Jedi Academy series of graphic novels, Revenge of the Sis is Krosoczka's fourth entry and the first to focus on Christina Starspeeder - now a student at the advanced Jedi Academy in Jedha City. One of the great things about the Jedi Academy books is that they tell standalone stories that are all connected, so you (or your little ones) should be fine if you read just one of them, some of them, or all of them. And there's no end in sight! The eighth book, Attack of the Furball, was recently released to continue the Starspeeder saga.

These books allow readers to choose their own path and become a part of the Star Wars galaxy. There are four books in the series so far ( Han & Chewie, Luke & Leia, Obi-Wan & Anakin, and Finn & Poe), and each has more than 20 possible outcomes and dozens of choices to make along the way. This is interactive storytelling at its best for youngsters eager to become part of the action.

10. LEGO Star Wars Visual Dictionary, New Edition (written by Simon Beecroft, Jason Fry, and Simon Hugo; published by DK Publishing)

Each page of this gorgeous book features close-up, highly detailed photos of sets and minifigures from 20 years of Star Wars LEGO collecting and takes a look at the design teams who make the sets and the process each goes through in development. Bonus: it comes with an exclusive Finn minifigure in his flexpoly bacta suit from The Last Jedi.

If the previous book is your deep dive into the world of LEGO Star Wars, then this book is your comprehensive look at the characters who appear in the 10 Star Wars films (so far). Including more than 200 characters, you'll learn more about each than you thought possible. From household names like Luke, Leia, and Rey to those who'll have you asking, "Who's that again?" - C'ai Threnali, Eeth Koth, Razoo Qin-Fee, to name a few - there's information and factoids here for every fan.

Alien Archive is meant to be an in-galaxy collection of sketches compiled by a mysterious traveling artist. Through over 150 oversized pages, nearly every alien, beast, and creature from Star Wars is represented with a gorgeous illustration, some notes ostensibly written by the traveler/artist, and a full description from scientific records. It's fantastically gorgeous, simply put. Every page is a treasure, and if I were a wandering traveler in the galaxy far, far away, this is the kind of book I'd spend a lifetime creating. At its core, it's a travel journal full of thoughts, sketches, and anthropological observations.

Myths & Fables is a companion of sorts to both Alien Archive and 2016's Galactic Maps. All three are intended to be books that might exist in the Star Wars galaxy. What sets this one apart is that it's a collection of fairy tales that would be told to young kids on Tatooine, Naboo, and elsewhere. Included are nine original stories that caution against danger, demonstrate the order of things, and relate thrilling adventures. These are the legends that bind the galaxy together.

Set between the events of The Last Jedi and The Rise of Skywalker, this junior novel follows Rey, Poe, and Rose on a mission against the First Order and helps tie together the events of the two films. Want to dig for clues and try to unearth secrets about the forthcoming film before December? Look no further.

The ultimate Star Wars coffee table book has been updated and it's still the prettiest encyclopedia you've ever seen. An encyclopedic look at the Star Wars galaxy is inherently a monumental undertaking, and this book reflects a deep love for the subject. The text is incredibly detailed and presents both significant events and minutiae with equal aplomb. What makes this edition new? It now includes The Last Jedi, Solo: A Star Wars Story, and Star Wars Resistance. The book is still presented thematically, with pages devoted to characters, planets, locations, creatures, weapons, ships, and important events. It's an encyclopedia...but it's an incredibly readable encyclopedia.

16. Meet the Heroes (written by various authors, published by DK)

Who is Chewbacca? How does Darth Vader become a Sith? Answering the most eager young fan's questions just got a whole lot easier with this series of readers that serve as a crash course in (almost) everything your youngling wants to know about the galaxy's heroes and villains.
Jamie is a publishing/book nerd who makes a living by wrangling words together into some sense of coherence. He's also a contributor to GeekDad and runs The Roarbots, where he focuses on awesome geeky stuff that happens to be kid-friendly. On top of that, he cohosts The Great Big Beautiful Podcast, which celebrates geek culture by talking to people who create it. With two little ones and a vast Star Wars collection at home, he's done the unthinkable: allowed them full access to most of his treasure from the past 30 years, opening and playing with whatever they want (pre-1983 items excluded).
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A wide variety of Star Wars themed lessons available

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Star Wars Day, May 4th, is a great time to turn the magical allure of the Star Wars movie franchise into fun and fascinating lessons in the classroom. Using these free Star Wars ideas, lessons, actitvies, and tools, teachers of any galaxy will easily engross Padawans of any age in instruction on any topic. Enjoy!

May the 4th Be With You: Best Free Star Wars Teaching Ideas

TPT Free Star Wars Lessons and ActivitiesStar Wars-themed word search, coloring pages, arts and crafts, arithmetic, STEM, and more. Created and rated by your fellow teachers, these are searchable by grade, topic, resource type, standards, and format.

Star Wars Activities for Physical Education
Ever thought about using Star Wars to get kids moving? This collection of Star Wars-related activities are a great way for kids to enjoy healthful exercise such as dance, running, calisthenics, throwing, and more.

Star Wars - Would You Rather?
A high-energy, feel-good exercise program that asks kids to choose between two Star Wars choices, then perform the indicated activity.

The Cave Challenge: Star Wars Mindful Matters
Ashley Eckstein, who voices Ahsoka Tano on Star Wars: The Clone Wars, leads youngsters in a brief guided mindfulness lesson. Just as Luke Skywalker faced his fears in the dark cave, so must everyone explore their own dark spaces, illuminating them with calm acceptance rather than anger.

4 Band Activities for May 4th (May the Fourth Be With You)
Perfect for music or other classes, these four simple ideas will help kids learn music, practice their Star Wars quotes, and generally have a great time.

May the Force = mass x acceleration
What do Star Wars, NASA's Dawn spacecraft, and Newton's Laws of Motion have in common? From the renowned Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, this Star Wars-inspired, standards-aligned lesson about ion-propulsion includes background, student activities, example spreadsheets, and more. Want to go deeper into the physics? Check out the fine collection of force and acceleration lessons .

Star Wars Lessons for the Music Classroom
John Williams' Star Wars score is one of the best known movie themes of all time. But what about other avenues to combine Star Wars and music in a single, thought-provoking lesson? Teacher Jessie Powell, the force behind the popular YouTube channel , provides a detailed narration of her favorite Star Wars music lessons, as well as a link to her blog, where the interactive lesson can be accessed for free.

Create a Star Wars Adventure in Scratch
Get your students excited about coding with this step-by-step video guide to creating a digital Star Wars adventure inScratch, the free online coding platform.

NASA STEM Education Resources
Transform your students' Star Wars enthusiasm into genuine learning with this extensive collection of STEM teaching resources for K-12 and beyond. Included are lesson plans, educator guides, interactive multimedia learning modules, contests, challenges, and much more. Searchable by grade level, subject, and type of activity.

Not So Far, Far Away
A lesson about latitude and longitude based on Star Wars fictional planetary locations and their Earthly analogues. Students learn how filmmakers used various extreme Earth landscapes as the basis for other-worldly Star Wars scenes, then map latitude and longitude of the real-world locations. Includes follow-up questions.

A wealth of Star Wars STEM activities can be found on Star Wars STEM Activities for May the 4th Be With You Science, from creating colorful lightsaber greeting cards to building robots from junk. Many of these super resources are aligned with the Next Generation Science Standards.

Star Wars in the Classroom Take a deep dive into multiple subject areas using Star Wars as the learning lens. Social studies, robotics, ELL, STEM topics, and even global citizenship will engage kids like never before when their favorite Star Wars characters, moments, and lines form the basis for each lesson.

Teaching With Star Wars: The true lessons to be learned from Star Wars aren't about advanced technology. Instead, they're about navigating life, whether in a galaxy far, far away or right here on Earth. Star Wars expert and educator Dan Zehr's terrific series of articles examines ideas such as commitment, learning from failure, and leadership in the context of Star Wars and the classroom.

This Star-Wars themed coding a galaxy activity from the Code.org folks includes everything students and teachers need to start block-based and JavaScript coding.

Teaching 'Star Wars' With The New York Times: The Times takes Star Wars lessons to a level above Cloud City with its Shakespeare, history, physics, science, math, and yes, economics, Star Wars-themed lessons. An exceptionally strong resource, especially for middle schoolers and above.

Try this Yoda speak translator just for fun. Even better, use it as the foundation for an English grammar lesson. For computer science classes and advanced students, theYoda translator API allows users to integrate the Yoda speak translator right into their website or application.
To share your feedback and ideas on this article, consider joining our Tech & Learning online community .

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Learn the principles of speaking like Yoda

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This past Monday, May 4, was Star Wars Day. The holiday began in 2011 to celebrate the film series and its influence on popular culture.

Every Star Wars Day, fans around the world say, "May the fourth be with you!" The words "May the fourth" sound like "May the Force," part of a line in the movie from character Obi-Wan Kenobi. "May the Force be with you" is something he said often in the films.

Star Wars has influenced English speech in many ways. Today, for example, English dictionaries contain words from the films, such as "jedi," though its meaning has changed a little.

But Star Wars has also brought us unusual sentence structures, mainly influenced by the speech of the character Jedi trainer Yoda. He is the beloved 900-year-old green creature who shows character Luke Skywalker how to become a Jedi. Yoda's way of speaking is the most memorable thing about him, except for his unusual appearance.

Today, Everyday Grammar will look at a few of Yoda's lines to examine the sentence formation. This is a fun way to practice identifying the many parts of speech in English.
Subjects, verbs and objects
Before we begin, let's look at three important parts of speech.

A subject is a noun, noun phrase, or pronoun that performs the action of a verb in a sentence. For example, "Yoda" is the subject of the sentence, "Yoda teaches Luke Skywalker about the Force."

A verb is a word that expresses an action, happening or state of being. In the same sentence example, the verb is "teaches."

And an object is a noun, noun phrase, or pronoun that receives the action of a verb. In the sentence, the object is "Luke Skywalker."

Notice the word order goes like this: subject-verb-object. Most English sentences and clauses follow this word order. Not all sentences have objects, but knowing where to put them is useful.
Very good Yoda's speech is
Yoda almost never uses the subject-verb word order of standard English. And many of his sentences contain linking verbs.

A linking verb is a verb that connects the subject of a sentence to a subject complement, which is a word or phrase that describes the subject.

Listen to a sentence that uses normal English word order and has a linking verb:

The mind of a child is truly wonderful.

In this sentence, the subject is "the mind of a child," the linking verb is "is" and the subject complement is "truly wonderful."

Now, listen to how Yoda said this sentence in the Star Wars film, "Attack of the Clones."
Truly wonderful the mind of a child is.
Here, Yoda put the subject complement "truly wonderful" first, the subject "the mind of a child" next and the linking verb "is" last.

Often, when a sentence has a subject complement, Yoda puts it at the beginning. Listen to this example, from the film "The Empire Strikes Back":

In this sentence, the words "luminous beings" are the subject complement, "are" is the linking verb, and "we" is the subject. But note that Yoda put the subject at the end this time, rather than after the subject complement.

Generally speaking, Yoda's sentence structure was not consistent. And that is OK since he is an imaginary character - and written to be hundreds of years old! We can still enjoy exploring his sentences to see where he places things.
Use auxiliary verbs Yoda does
Another thing Yoda does often is to separate main verbs from auxiliary verbs or modal verbs in sentences that contain them.

Suppose you wanted to tell Luke Skywalker something about Darth Vader. Normally, English sentences put auxiliary verbs before main verbs, like this:
And you will confront him.
Here, the auxiliary verb is "will" and comes before the main verb, "confront." Together, "will confront" makes the simple future verb tense.

But listen to how Yoda says that same sentence about Vader, from the film "Return of the Jedi":
And, confront him you will.
Notice that he has completely separated the auxiliary and main verbs. He put the auxiliary "will" at the end of the sentence and the main verb "confront" at the beginning.

Even in this same piece of dialogue, however, the old, green teacher forms sentences other ways. Listen to more of the Yoda speech, in three short sentences:
You must confront Vader! Then, only then, a Jedi will you be. And confront him you will.
In each of these sentences, he places the subject, the modal or auxiliary, and the main verb in different places.

The writers of the Star Wars movies made Yoga's speech inconsistent in structure, maybe just to play with language.

And now, it is your turn to have some fun with language. Visit our website to find a few more Yoda quotes and see if you can identify the parts of speech.

May the Force be with you!

I'm Alice Bryant.
Alice Bryant wrote this story for Learning English. Caty Weaver was the editor.
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Practice

Now, you try it! Follow the directions for each of Yoda's sentences. Write your answers in the comments. We will post the correct answers next week!

1-What is the subject complement? "Powerful you have become."

2-Put this in the correct word order and add any missing word/s: "Secret shall I tell you?"

3-What word is missing from this sentence? "Wars not make one great."

4-What is the subject of this sentence? "Always in motion is the future."

5-Put this in the correct word order and make any needed changes: "Happens to every guy sometimes this does."

6-What is the object of this sentence? "This one a long time have I watched."

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Words in This Story

character - n. a person who appears in a story, book, play, movie, or television show

practice - v. to do something again and again in order to get better at it

Jedi - n. a member of the mystical knightly order in the Star Wars films, trained to guard peace and justice in the Universe

clause - n. A part of a sentence that has its own subject and verb

phrase - n. a group of two or more words that express a single idea but do not usually form a complete sentence

luminous - adj. producing or seeming to produce light

crude - adj. Very simple and basic

standard - adj. accepted and used by most of the educated speakers and writers of a language

modal verb - n. a verb that is usually used with another verb to express ideas such as possibility, necessity, and permission

auxiliary verb - n. a verb that is used with another verb to show the verb's tense, to form a question, or to do something else

dialogue - n. the things that are said by the characters in a story, movie or play

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Emergent learner literacy activities

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Star Adventurer Emergent Readers - In All You Do

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What boy doesn't love Star Wars? Grab these fun Star Adventurer Emergent Readers for some fun reading!! {4 levels} :: www.inallyoudo.net

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Lots of free educational materials for Star Wars Fans

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"Hold up there Jo... Is Star Wars in line with Montessori, which you are always spouting on about?"

That is a great point.
Montessori herself believed kids under the age of six especially, should only be taught about factual things and fantasy/fiction left until they were old enough to understand the difference.

But, we also need to remember that we live in a very different world to the one Montessori knew and so teaching the difference between fact and fiction needs to start earlier. Ideas such as permanency is a difficult concept to grasp and the huge leap in technology in the last 20 years, it makes fantasy and fiction even harder to differentiate.

As parents, we just need to help our kids see what is and isn't real. When Ebi-kun was little we didn't buy any character goods such as Thomas, Anpanman, or Peppa Pig mainly because I hate the whole commercial side of the peddling of plastic junk. Star Wars and Lego were our exceptions.

I love Montessori but I'm not a purist and I do believe you can create a balance. There are a lot of things available these days that just weren't around when Montessori was teaching that can be used as teaching tools.

What I do always do is "Follow The Child" and if your child is excited about something then you can easily combine their interest plus the stage of development they are in, to give them the perfect learning activity. It will have them engaged and they will love it as they are learning new skills. If you want to learn more about Montessori, check out this 101 post.

I originally wrote this post in 2016 and sadly a lot of the places I linked to are no longer available so I have re-organized the post and hopefully now it is a bit easier for you to use too! I have also included some paid activities and resources that we have enjoyed over the years.
Disclosure, there are some affiliate links, this means I will make a commission if you choose to buy something through my link - at no cost to you!
Star Wars Language

Star Wars Math

How to solve systems of equations (video below)⭐️

Star Wars Science

How to make a Han Solo Blaster Sound Effect

Star Wars The Arts

How To Draw Baby Yoda

Star Wars Culinary Arts + Table Decorations

Star Wars Packs - These are not specific subject-based

Star Wars Yoda Yoga

Star Wars Activities on Teachers Pay Teachers (TpT)

If you haven't heard of TpT yet, you are going to be blown away. It is a platform for teachers to sell the materials they create online. They also have a lot of free resources too. You can sort by age and subject making it easy to find what you are looking for.

Here are a few topics to get you started.

Books

I couldn't finish this post without sharing our favourite Star Wars books now could I? These two crafts were made from the Star Wars Craft Book by Bonnie Burton. Over the years we have made quite a few things from this book, it gets a big thumbs up from us.

We also love this Star Wars Origami book too, this one is better for older kids or those that are Jedi origami masters! (That is not me, I suck at origami!)
Star Wars Origami on Amazon
And finally, The Strange Case Of Origami Yoda by Tom Angleberger and is a really fun book, great for kids who need a bit of silliness to get them into reading! There are several others in the series now, Ebi-kun says that the Yoda one is still his favourite.

If you have anything to add or come across any other links that would be great to share, please let me know in the comments.

May the force be with you...

And if you have gotten through that lot, then how about joining 193 Little Adventures Club - printable culture packs for curious kids.

IF YOU DIDN'T YET SIGN UP FOR THE FREE RESOURCES LIBRARY, DO IT HERE. THERE ARE LOTS OF ACTIVITIES INCLUDED AND YES, TIME-SAVING TIPS FOR MOM TOO!

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Pixlr Photo Manipulation lesson

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SWBAT create Star Wars Jedi Photos using all of their pixlr skills

Requirements:

1 photo of yourself standing like you're holding a lightsaber

Clean erased edges of your photo

Real lightsaber handle - with no light

Line drawing with outer glow to simulate lightsaber light

Lightsaber must look like you are holding - as realistic as possible

Star Wars background scene from the movies

Star Wars Logo behind you

Star Wars rebel/empire logo in bottom left

Your name in bottom right with glow

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Star Wars Photo Project - Mr. Cruz - Class Website

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SWBAT create Star Wars Jedi Photos using all of their pixlr skills Requirements: 1 photo of yourself standing like you're holding a lightsaber Clean erased edges of your photo Real lightsaber handle - with no light Line drawing with outer glow to simulate lightsaber light Lightsaber must look like you are holding - as realistic as possible Star Wars background scene from the movies Star Wars Logo behind you Star Wars rebel/empire logo in bottom left Your name in bottom right with glow

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20 ideas for teaching-and-learning-with the force

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Star Wars Day, May 4th, is a great time to turn the magical allure of the Star Wars movie franchise into fun and fascinating lessons in the classroom. Using these free Star Wars ideas, lessons, actitvies, and tools, teachers of any galaxy will easily engross Padawans of any age in instruction on any topic. Enjoy!

May the 4th Be With You: Best Free Star Wars Teaching Ideas

TPT Free Star Wars Lessons and ActivitiesStar Wars-themed word search, coloring pages, arts and crafts, arithmetic, STEM, and more. Created and rated by your fellow teachers, these are searchable by grade, topic, resource type, standards, and format.

Star Wars Activities for Physical Education
Ever thought about using Star Wars to get kids moving? This collection of Star Wars-related activities are a great way for kids to enjoy healthful exercise such as dance, running, calisthenics, throwing, and more.

Star Wars - Would You Rather?
A high-energy, feel-good exercise program that asks kids to choose between two Star Wars choices, then perform the indicated activity.

The Cave Challenge: Star Wars Mindful Matters
Ashley Eckstein, who voices Ahsoka Tano on Star Wars: The Clone Wars, leads youngsters in a brief guided mindfulness lesson. Just as Luke Skywalker faced his fears in the dark cave, so must everyone explore their own dark spaces, illuminating them with calm acceptance rather than anger.

4 Band Activities for May 4th (May the Fourth Be With You)
Perfect for music or other classes, these four simple ideas will help kids learn music, practice their Star Wars quotes, and generally have a great time.

May the Force = mass x acceleration
What do Star Wars, NASA's Dawn spacecraft, and Newton's Laws of Motion have in common? From the renowned Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, this Star Wars-inspired, standards-aligned lesson about ion-propulsion includes background, student activities, example spreadsheets, and more. Want to go deeper into the physics? Check out the fine collection of force and acceleration lessons .

Star Wars Lessons for the Music Classroom
John Williams' Star Wars score is one of the best known movie themes of all time. But what about other avenues to combine Star Wars and music in a single, thought-provoking lesson? Teacher Jessie Powell, the force behind the popular YouTube channel , provides a detailed narration of her favorite Star Wars music lessons, as well as a link to her blog, where the interactive lesson can be accessed for free.

Create a Star Wars Adventure in Scratch
Get your students excited about coding with this step-by-step video guide to creating a digital Star Wars adventure inScratch, the free online coding platform.

NASA STEM Education Resources
Transform your students' Star Wars enthusiasm into genuine learning with this extensive collection of STEM teaching resources for K-12 and beyond. Included are lesson plans, educator guides, interactive multimedia learning modules, contests, challenges, and much more. Searchable by grade level, subject, and type of activity.

Not So Far, Far Away
A lesson about latitude and longitude based on Star Wars fictional planetary locations and their Earthly analogues. Students learn how filmmakers used various extreme Earth landscapes as the basis for other-worldly Star Wars scenes, then map latitude and longitude of the real-world locations. Includes follow-up questions.

A wealth of Star Wars STEM activities can be found on Star Wars STEM Activities for May the 4th Be With You Science, from creating colorful lightsaber greeting cards to building robots from junk. Many of these super resources are aligned with the Next Generation Science Standards.

Star Wars in the Classroom Take a deep dive into multiple subject areas using Star Wars as the learning lens. Social studies, robotics, ELL, STEM topics, and even global citizenship will engage kids like never before when their favorite Star Wars characters, moments, and lines form the basis for each lesson.

Teaching With Star Wars: The true lessons to be learned from Star Wars aren't about advanced technology. Instead, they're about navigating life, whether in a galaxy far, far away or right here on Earth. Star Wars expert and educator Dan Zehr's terrific series of articles examines ideas such as commitment, learning from failure, and leadership in the context of Star Wars and the classroom.

This Star-Wars themed coding a galaxy activity from the Code.org folks includes everything students and teachers need to start block-based and JavaScript coding.

Teaching 'Star Wars' With The New York Times: The Times takes Star Wars lessons to a level above Cloud City with its Shakespeare, history, physics, science, math, and yes, economics, Star Wars-themed lessons. An exceptionally strong resource, especially for middle schoolers and above.

Try this Yoda speak translator just for fun. Even better, use it as the foundation for an English grammar lesson. For computer science classes and advanced students, theYoda translator API allows users to integrate the Yoda speak translator right into their website or application.
To share your feedback and ideas on this article, consider joining our Tech & Learning online community .

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Math games

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Play official Star Wars Games! Check out free games from all your favorite Star Wars characters like Yoda and Ezra Bridger.