DIY Star Wars Glowing Light Sabers

Star Wars is coming!!! Are you excited about it?? With a house full of boys, we are definitely excited about it! We LOVE the Star Wars movies. My sister is throwing her son a Star Wars birthday party this weekend and we were talking about party ideas and favors. So to get my kids even more excited about the movie, I decided to make them some GLOWING light sabers. They were soooo easy to make, plus they were super inexpensive (about $1.25 each). Plus they are so stinkin’ cool. These are pretty for birthday parties, for costumes or just for fun.

I picked up some glow sticks at the dollar store. They have super long ones now that are just perfect. They had a variety of colors, but I decided to stick with the Jedi colors, blue, green and purple (can’t forget Mace Windu). Then I got some pipe insulation foam to go around the bottom of it. I got 3/8″ size.

I cut the foam to 6 inches.

The glow stick is little too small for the foam, so I wrapped the bottom of it with some yarn and glued it onto the glow stick. Then I put some glue directly onto the yarn and then glued it into the foam (you don’t want to put the glue directly onto the foam, it will melt a hole into it, learn from my mistake 🙂 ).

I put the glow stick into the foam, pulled the paper to expose the adhesive and closed it. Then with silver and red vinyl, I decorated the handle to look like a light saber. You could easily use duct tape to decorate it too.