A few cardboard tubes and some pieces of junk and various beads are all you need to make yourself a cheap and easy DIY stormtrooper blaster from Star Wars.

MATERIALS USED:
Blaster pieces template: (available free in my patterns vault)
2 Cardboard tubes (20 inches long) – One that fits inside the other.
Utility knife / scissors
Scrap pieces of cardboard
Pencil
Paper
Circular ring (I used an inner plastic tape ring)
Cardstock
Multi-surface glue (Power-tac) or Hot glue gun
Scraps of craft foam
Wire ring
Adhesive gems or something similar
Various beads, buttons, and other bits of junk
Various bottle caps
Puffy paint – any color
Buckle
White school glue and foam brush
Glossy black paint

This tutorial is for the E11 blaster, made famous by the stormtroopers and their notoriously bad marksmanship 😉

The cardboard tubes used to make this DIY stormtrooper blaster are the ones that you find inside wrapping paper rolls, paper town rolls, baking paper rolls, etc. So this blaster is the perfect way to use up those cardboard tubes when you finish off a roll of something.

If you don’t have enough cardboard tubes of your own, ask your friends and family for their leftovers. They’re usually quite glad to be rid of them.

If your second cardboard tube doesn’t fit inside the first one, just cut a slit down it lengthwise and curl the edges in a bit so it’s small enough to fit inside.

I took a lot of artistic liberty with my DIY stormtrooper blaster, so if your pieces of “junk” don’t exactly match mine, just use what you have. Basically anything that gives it visual texture is a good add on.

Video tutorial by Amber Reifsteck, The Woodland Elf
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