While I'm always knee-deep in Star Wars Craft Projects for the starwars.com, I have to say that my first love is papercrafting. It's easy, fun and all you need is a printout of a paper pattern and a gluestick!

I never got the hang of origami. All of my animals looked like waded up pieces of colored paper. I even tried my best to master Star Wars Origami, but I just don't have the patience to learn that delicate art skill.

However with papercraft projects, you just tape or glue tabs of paper to make really fun robots, castles, animals and more! While some are simple to make in a matter of minutes, others are a bit more complicated (Transfromers models, Howl's Moving Castle, etc) but still rewarding and doable.

So when we were thinking of our next Star Wars Craft Project, the idea of the R2-D2 Mailboxes bounced around in our brains. And thus, thanks to the folks at the US Postal Service -- the R2-D2 Mailbox Papercraft came about.

I had a lot of fun making ours that you see on starwars.com, plus it was made in under 15 minutes. So if time is of the essence for you, this is the craft you'll want to try!

And once you're finished making your R2-D2 mailbox have fun putting it in your Star Wars dioramas, or take photos using it with your Star Wars action figures.

I've posted a few already on a few Flickr groups like Star Wars Toys and Star Wars as well as R2-D2 Mailboxes Across America!

So show us what you do with yours!

Get started here:
R2-D2 Mailbox Papercraft

Also if you really want to test your papercraft skills, check out this site full of extensive papercraft downloadable projects of an AT-AT, Tie-Fighter, to TIE-Interceptor and even a Star Destroyer -- and a Probe Droid! Check it out here: SF movie paper craft gallery via Toys R Evil Blog.

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SPECIAL THANKS TO:
Club Jade, BoingBoing.net, Papercraft Paradise and CRAFT magazine for linking to this fun project!

As well as craftsters who have been posting their creations on their blogs:
Vegan Craftastic: R2D2