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Star Wars Maker Lab

This well-illustrated activity book for young crafters contains detailed instructions for 20 projects featuring the Star Wars universe including an R2-D2 holoprojector, a Death Star tractor beam and Kyber crystals, and explains the science and craft involved. Age 9+
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Product information:
  • Publisher: Dorling Kindersley
  • Year: 2018
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 128pp
  • Illustrated: Yes
  • Dimensions: 275x213mm
  • ISBN: 9780241314234
  • Condition: New
  • Weight: 0.8kg
Product code:
515602
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Star Wars Maker Lab teaches your budding Padawan how to become a Master of science, in both the real world and the Star Wars galaxy!

Have you ever wanted to move things without touching them like a Jedi can? Or maybe explode a balloon with a beam of energy, just like the Death Star? Now you can! Star Wars Maker Lab helps children learn the basics of science by travelling through the Star Wars galaxy.


This book is perfect for budding scientists and Star Wars aficionados alike. The 20 projects are full of fun facts for kids, colourful diagrams, and easy-to-follow instructions that cover a range of topics that will enthral and entertain. Star Wars Maker Lab is filled with science and science fiction for readers between ages 9-12.

Unleash Your Inner Scientist, Engineer And Artist!

With a blockbuster 128 pages packed with 20 fabulous projects; Star Wars Maker Lab is out of this world! Using the clear step-by-step instructions, it guides home scientists and makers through each exciting experiment - from making Jabba's gooey slime or a hovering land speeder, to an Ewok catapult and a glowing Gungan Globe of Peace. Each experiment has fact-filled panels to explain real-world science as well as the Star Wars science fiction from the movies.

This Star Wars book, covering a range of STEM topics keeps children entertained for hours, making use of many household items such as cardboard tubes, baking soda, cornstarch, straws, balloons, and food colouring. There is also plenty to keep more adventurous scientists enthralled, with instructions on how to make a bristlebot mouse droid, lightsaber duel, and Mustafar volcano.

Learn about the galaxy we live in, inspired by one far, far away:
- Explore STEM topics from science to science-fiction
- Stir up some sticky Jabba the Hutt Slime
- Duel with Lightsabers
- Create an erupting Mustafar Volcano
- Delve into the mechanics of the Star Wars universe from Speed Gliders to Anakin's Mechno-Arm and more!

Star Wars Maker Lab is part of the educational Maker Lab series, which includes kid-safe projects and crafts that will get young inventors' wheels turning and make science pure fun. Photographs and facts carefully detail the "why" and "how" of each experiment using real-world examples to provide context so kids can gain a deeper understanding of the scientific principles applied.

Maker Lab will help kids find their inner inventor and create winning projects for school projects, science fairs, and beyond.

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