What you need:
- Pencil
- Manila folder
- Scissors
- Black, gray, and white felt
- Thin cardboard
- Quick-drying fabric glue
- Chenille stems/pipe cleaners
- Table tennis or small styrofoam ball
- Wooden drink stir stick or thin dowel
- Fresh or plastic mistletoe
- Red ribbon
- White thread or clear fishing wire
- First draw a hexagon (a six sided figure) on a manila folder and cut it out to use as your TIE fighter solar panel pattern
- Cut four hexagons out of black felt, and two from the thin cardboard
- Glue the black felt hexagons to both sides of your cardboard hexagons
- Cut the pipe cleaners and glue them onto the hexagons in a crisscross and straight-across pattern, just as it appears on a TIE fighter solar panel. Use an image of a TIE fighter solar panel from books as a reference. Be sure to glue pipe cleaners around the edges of the solar panels, too. Cut out a smaller hexagon from white felt to glue in the middle of each side of the solar panels.
- Begin the cockpit assembly by creating a hole in each side of the table tennis or styrofoam ball. Push the wooden stir stick or dowel through the ball and trim it so it is even on both sides. Secure it with a bit of glue on each side.
- Use quick-drying fabric glue to glue each end to the middle of a solar panel. This is where you must practice Yoda-like patience by allowing the glue to dry on one solar panel before you attach the other. Let the glue dry completely
- Next, cut out a circle of gray felt and a smaller circle of black felt to glue on top to make the cockpit window. Cut out thin slivers of gray and an even smaller gray circle to go in the middle of the window. After it dries, glue the finished window to the middle of the cockpit area of the TIE fighter.
- Wrap a pipe cleaner stem around hte arms of the TIE fighter and bleow it to attach your mistletoe bundle underneath
- Tie a pretty red ribbon around the pipe cleaner and tems of your mistletoe as an added festive touch. Tie a piece of white thread or clear fishing line to each arm of the TIE fighterand make two loops. Then tie the loops together at the top with another loop of thread to serve as the main hanging loop, which will properly support your TIE fighter
- Han in a doorway, but remember that Christmas tradition states you have to kiss anyone standing underneath the mistletoe! So look out for lurking Wookies!
That's it for now folks! Make sure that you share this with your friends, and if you like you an post your image on the official facebook page and share them with your friends as well! I'll be back next week to post a double review for the latest episode of the Clone Wars; until then, Merry Christmas and May the Force be with you :D
