These Star Wars pumpkins are so fun to make. Celebrate fall and Halloween with your own version of R2-D2 and C-3PO. These ARE the droids you’re looking for!

Skills Required: Intermediate. You should have basic experience crafting and preferably experience with paint pens. This isn’t a hard craft, but there are quite a few details and you need a relatively steady hand. If you’re a newbie, just work slowly.

Nothing says the holidays like Star Wars as far as I’m concerned. When I was little I used to watch the movies a lot during the holiday season, so that’s the connection. It’s so engrained that I’ve even done a Star Wars Christmas tree!

Fall is coming soon, so I thought I would get started on a couple pumpkin crafts early. Of course, I had to head to Michaels to grab a couple faux pumpkins for this project.

I knew that I wanted my pumpkins to be Star Wars themed, so then it was just a matter of whether to go with the light or dark side.

I decided to embrace the Droids for my office and use an R2-D2 and C-3PO theme. The faux pumpkins work out great because I can keep them up all fall!

Gather These Supplies

Faux pumpkin(s)
Spray paint
Paint markers – in the colors you need
Pencil
Tape
Foam sheets
2 paper fasteners (brads)
X-Acto knife

I used taller pumpkins for this project. Here are the pumpkins individually if you’d like to take a closer look! First is R2-D2 . . .

And C-3PO.

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C-3PO and R2-D2 Pumpkins

Learn how to make two Star Wars pumpkins that look like the droids C-3PO and R2-D2! Once you try, you'll want to make the whole cast of characters.

Prep Time5

Active Time4

Dry Time1

Total Time5 5

Type: Halloween Crafts

Yield: pumpkins

Cost: $25

Equipment

Pencil(s)
X-Acto knife

Materials

2 Faux pumpkins
2 cans Spray paint gold, white, silver
6 Sharpie paint markers black, navy, blue, silver, white, red
1 roll Painter’s tape
1 Craft foam sheets white
2 paper fasteners brads

Instructions

Spray paint both faux pumpkins with the color of your choice. Tape off any areas that you don't want painted. Give several light coats and let dry. Let the pumpkins dry for 20 minutes. Once they are fully dry, inspect your faux pumpkins and make sure you hit all areas with the paint. If not, go ahead and fill in at this time and let dry completely.
Use images of the Star Wars droids to draw patterns on the faux pumpkins that you'll fill in. Use painter's tape to keep the lines straight.
Then I took R2-D2 outside again and spray painted the top silver. I thought that would be easier than using a silver paint marker and much faster. After the spray paint dried, I used my paint markers to start filling in the details.
Use the paint markers to start filling in the details. Let dry between layers and when switching marker colors. The paint markers go over the spray paint easy. Just make sure not to smudge what you've done with your hand before it dries.
Cut legs for your characters (if required) out of foam board using the craft knife. Add details with paint pens and let dry.
Attach the legs to the pumpkin using paper brads. You can use an awl to make a hole in the pumpkin if needed. Insert and position in whatever way you like.

Notes

It is better to use light coats than thick coats for spray painting.

If you mess up: it helps to have gold and white paint pens (or whatever your base colors are) so that you can color over any mistakes. If you mess up, let the paint dry before going over it. You can go over it with acrylic paint as well. Brush several layers and let dry between layers.

Who says you have to have traditional pumpkins?!? Give your pumpkins a little “character” this Fall/Halloween. Also check out these other cute posts: