felt lightsaber pencil holders are not exact replicas

If your kids aren’t getting beat up in school enough for your liking, then you could try your hand at these felt lightsaber pencil holders and see if that kicks it up a notch.

Seriously, this is a pretty cool idea, but there is one problem: they don’t actually resemble lightsabers. Staging them with Star Wars pencils is definitely helping, but I’m pretty sure people would just think you had a random wad of felt wrapped around your pencils. Unless, of course, you started battling with them while making the appropriate sound effects. But then your pencils would fall out and you’d be back to square one.

You can make your own with this handy how-to guide. So if your kids are the type who begged you to take them to The Clone Wars on opening day, give yourself a break and leave them alone with some felt, glue, scissors, thread, and the instructions and let them get to it.

[via Craft:]