Space Week

Space Week

Here are a few activities from our space week adventures.

Constellation art 

I realize I could have been more creative and used star stickers, however we were out of them at the time. First we looked at some pictures of constellations.  Then we put stars on the paper with Elmer's. After that I had the kids connect the stars and name their constellations!

Moon texture painting

Ingredients

€        Flour

€        White Paint

€        Black Paper

€        Brushes

Directions

€        Just mix it until it is lumpy

This was a fun one. First we watched a YouTube video about the geography of the moon. The video was totally made by a dude in his basement, but it was very informative. Then we painted! Ty even named some of the mountains on his moon-mostly "Duck face" and "Mountain of danger"

Balloon rocket

€        Materials
String

€        drinking straw

€        paper rocket

€        tape (lots of it)

€        Balloon

This was a fun experiment that did not go as well as we hopped. First you thread the straw on the string. Then string the string between two points (a downward angle seemed to help).

Tape the rocket to the straw, blow up the balloon, tape that to the rocket and let the air escape.

Mostly the rocket just turned around in circles which was tons of fun, but we did get it to shoot to our space station a few times.

Space station play

For this we made space helmets for mousey (the puppet) and Ty. We then made a blanket fort and stocked it with food from the play kitchen, a broken keyboard, and other materials that Ty decided he needed for space-including 3 pairs of shoes. Then we turned on some space themed music and the kids were entertained for about 2 hours. Gav mostly enjoyed going in and out of the tent-then he discovered the stereo and played with that. Ty and Mousey had several space walks and did important research on alien life-forms circling the earth.

Paper plate UFO's

These were simple and fun. Kids drew pictures of aliens on paper plates. We then stapled 2 plates together to make a ship form. Ty wanted his filled with beans-which was kind of a disaster because when he started to throw it around like a Frisbee, they went everywhere. The Dyson does not like beans.

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