May The Fourth Be With You! Star Wars Dog Ewok Pet Costume

May 4, 2025

As always on this silly date, a very happy ‘Star Wars Day’: ‘May the Fourth’ be with you 😉

We’ve now had a lovely year with our Border Terrier Connie and this year and I pondered on what Star Wars fancy dress pet character to dress her up as!

Even though I’ve tried this outfit on my previous pooch, I thought it’d be rude not to highlight her already scruffy bear like vibes… so I give you…

An Ewok of course!

Bless her little fuzzy face

Big up my dad ‘GPJ’ (Grandpa John) for being on hand with ham and bread bribes!

Coincidentally, I was a ‘J themed’ fancy dress party yesterday (with my daughter Jasmine, as ‘Princess Jasmine’), so thought it rude not to go as Jedi Knight Anekin! (Or “Barn-akin”?!)

There were a few Jedi’s there, and I thought I had the high ground trying to despatch a youngling, but Palpatine turned up and I got Mauled! 😉

Last year, at only 10 weeks old, she had her baptism of fire as Chewbacca…

Being ‘Chewy’ has been a theme throughout her first turn around our local Star

(See my boys ‘Darth Mauled’ dinosaur collection for details)

Some of you may know I had a thing for annually dressing up my previous beloved pooch Kyra as Star Wars characters, as it was her birthday on May the 4th!

13 outfit variations and she sadly passed, after her final Star Wars humiliation – I mean ‘performance’ – as the ‘Dog Star’.

What a star she was too. An ambassador to the Staffy breed and I still miss her company.

This is where it started for ‘Darth Kyra’ back in 2011, strong with the force, not long after we ‘rescued’ her (though she might not have thought it was a rescue after these shoots…)

Over the years we attempted a host of Jedi, Chewbacca, Leia, an X-wing pilot. About 10 major characters later I started running thin on ideas and even attempted Han Solo in Carbonite and even a Tuscan Raider!

I thought it might also be fun to go back through Kyra’s punny hits… Including ‘Kyra-2D2’!

This official Lucasfilm licensed outfit looks like a victorian frilly blouse and b) comes with a skullcap she WAS NOT 100% IMPRESSED WITH!

She put up with my silly ways in exchange for sliced ham and biscuits!

My boy Len even helped with treat distribution and I only realised afterwards that I’d massively missed a trick not dressing him up as C3PO to complete the pairing!

Being born at the end of Feb 2020, Lenny also suffered at the hands of my Star Wars nerdery, and sat in a bin to play ‘The Child’ AKA ‘Grogu’ / ‘Baby Yoda’!

But back to Kyra…

Finding my snowboarding goggles in the drawer inspired me to do an X-Wing Pilot one year!

And as I strain at puns on her name ‘Kyra’, she joins Gold Leader, Blue Leader and Red Leader, as ‘Kyred Leader’!

This was an official outfit too. Lucasfilm are nothing if smart at covering all merch bases!

Anyone starting to see how impressed she is about all this?!

While she’s technically a Bantha, the rider is a Tuskan Raider and that makes an easier ‘Kyra/dog’ pun!

‘Kyrace Windu’! Samuel Jackson’s purple lightsaber weilding badass.

‘Kyrey’!

And she looks just as pleased about being dressed up in this ‘Rey’ toddler fancy dress costume and hanging out in a local golf course bunker as one might expect!

Kyra’s attempt at ‘Chewbarka’, in our local bluebell woods, made out of a hacked up a Chewbacca Rucksack!

The Force Awaken’s ‘Kyra Ren’ – from Han & Leia’s very naughty boy Kylo.

Â ‘Kyran Solo’ was a labour of Blue Peter-style cardboard-and-PVA-glue love, to create a Han Solo in Carbonite box Kyra could climb into!

‘Princess Kyra’… cause she’s a little short to be a Storm Trooper!

This was Kyra’s effort as an Ewok (aka ‘Kyrawok’), made out of an old charity shop skirt & a teddy bear! Think she might have preferred Connie’s bib to be fair!

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