Paper Lightsaber

Hello! Today, I will be showing you how to craft a paper lightsaber. The first time I ever watched a Star Wars movie, I thought lightsabers were the coolest thing, and I always wanted to have one. After asking many other people, this is a widely-spread feeling. Well, Star Wars fans, now you can have one! On a scale of one to ten, the difficulty of this project is about a two.

A piece of paper, preferably an 8 inch by 11.5 inch piece

A pair of scissors

(Optional) About an inch of tape

Hold your piece of paper in half the shorter way, or, if you know what this means, hamburger style.

Bring either the top edge or bottom edge to the crease you made in the previous step and make a fold.

This is optional, but you can fold the edge that you didn't fold to the center crease in the previous step to make extra lightsabers.

Cut along the creases you've formed in previous steps.

Orient one of strips you made the long way (the hotdog way), and form a very thin flap on one of the smaller edges.

Fold your paper in half parallel to the longer side.

Fold the top and bottom sides to the middle crease.

Take the bottom right corner of your paper and fold it up to the top, forming a triangle.

Flip your paper over and fold the right edge over the crease you made in the previous step. This should form a large flap about 2 inches long, much larger than the flap that you made in step 5.

This is the most confusing step, because you can easily mess it up. Take the bottom part of your larger flap and fold it around the back of your paper, then insert it into the top part of the larger flap. Make sure you can see the roll you just made. Insert one of the smaller flap of the inside of your to-be tube under the other, and bam, you should have a paper lightsaber. I would suggest taping the larger flap (or the hilt, as you can see now) shut, because it comes out easily. You can repeat steps 5 through 10 with any other strips of paper you made to craft more lightsabers.