Star Wars Lunch Bag: A description

Star Wars Lunch Bag: A description

Star Wars lunch bags were something I started for my eldest son when he began Summer Camp in 2009. It was something special that I could do for him each day. It also acted as an ice-breaker, a conversation piece between my son, the camp staff and the other campers. Now, I've got two boys in camp, so it's double the quota. Each night I draw up pictures, usually something "Star Wars-y" on the next day's lunch bags. It can be any thing: a ship, a character, a mash-up, or whatever ( I do take requests.) It's something fun for them to discover each morning. And, it's a reminder of me, their Dad, when they are off having fun at camp.
In years past, most of the bags were kept by the camp staff. But, so far this year, the boys have been bringing them home to keep for themselves.

Some of the bags turn out fairly decent. And others, perhaps, not as successful or artistically satisfying. But, in the end, it's all for fun - theirs... and mine.

Wednesday, July 18, 2012

THIS IS DEATHSTAR I & II - Lunch-bag - 2012


Back to the Dav Pilkey format for this lunch-bag (though the drawing isn't exactly in his style.) I joked about this idea with my son over the weekend. A couple days later, I made a doodle of it in my sketchbook with the text loosely worked out. Then, at bedtime last night my son said the whole thing to me, almost verbatim! I thought he'd been looking in my sketchbook, but turns out he just remembered the whole thing! I was pretty floored. And so, at his request, I turned it into a final lunch-bag for today.
I threw the Bothan's bit and the little ships in for a little more silliness.
I hadn't made a typo in quite some time. But I did last night and covered it up - wrote the same word twice. That's what happens when you're a tired lunch-bag maker.

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