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3-12-01Paper Mache Planets. Have the children decide which planet they would like to make, so you can help them with the appropriate size and color. Blow up balloons and cover with several layers of newspaper and paper mache paste. The last layer should be white paper. Tie a string of yarn hooked to a paper clip and add to the wet paste so that you will be able to hang it later. Let dry for 2 days. Paint, hang and have children tell you about their planet and why they picked it.
3-12-01I buy small Styrofoam shapes at the craft store. If you have to buy larger shapes, you can cut them (i.e. cut circles in half, cut the bottom off of a large cone shape, etc.) Supply the children with different materials, ruffly cocktail picks, flag picks, pipe cleaners, bendable straws in fluorescent colors (cut down) and let them make satellites which you can hang around. Also let them dab fluorescent paint or glue onto their satellites. Twist the pipe cleaners into odd shapes and provide some background for the children about the purpose of satellites in space. The kids have a ball with this.
1-19-01Paint a easel size piece of paper with black, blue and purple paint. Encourage the children to use large strokes and cover the entire paper. Let dry. Add sticker stars, stars cut from silver and gold Mylar "tissue" paper or construction paper.
11-5-00Blob aliens We made blob aliens using A3 sized paper we put blobs of paint on one half of the paper and folding over (butterfly style) to make the pattern for the aliens skin. The following day the children can cut their blob print into the body shape of their choice and glue on arms and legs and other collage materials to complete their alien. You can have great fun thinking up different shaped feet and hands. I had some children make aliens with six arms and hands of all different colours. The aliens all look very individual. As a follow up I ask children to write me a little story about their alien including things like it's name, where it lives, what it eats. Great Fun! From Christine, Perth W.A.
9-13-00To make a fast and simple flying saucer or space ship, you will need: 2 CDs per child (AOL and many stores like Kmart give them away free), and 2 small or medium Slurpee type lids per child. Glue the 2 CDs together with the sides with writing on them together. Glue a Slurpee lid centered on each side of the glued CDs. It can be hung by punching two holes in one of the Slurpee lids (opposite each other) and tying a ribbon, string or yarn through the holes. Kids just love the shiny CDs and "bubble" looking spaceships.
7-25-00Have the children cut out a cardboard circle about 9 -10" across. They then glue on any bits and pieces e.g... macaroni, beans, bottle tops - whatever you want to use up. When its dry, glue over the surface again, and cover with foil. Push down in between all the bits to get a real bumpy effect. This may need several layers, as the foil does tear. The effect is stunning
Date: 4-8-00Give the children different colored star stickers to put on black paper. After they have finished that, give them chalk to connect the stars. They can look at their picture and name their constellation and you can write it on the picture.
2-20-00We had the children cut out different color circles, one for each planet, and then paste them onto a black sheet of construction paper, then add white paint spots, and glow in the dark star stickers, for their own solar system! (for the younger class we had already cut out circles that they could paste)
2-20-00We planned an outer space trip, the children cut out magazine pictures of things they would like to bring to space, then put them into a paper suitcase. At circle time we had a suitcase in the middle of the class and each child could bring one item from the class to take on an outer space trip!
Date: 1-30-00Stars: Let the children paint a paper towel tube with dark blue paint and add stars when dry. Cover end with black tissue paper and hold on with a rubber band. Poke holes with a pin or paper clip that is opened up. Hold up to light and see the "stars"!
Date: 12-21-00I gather about six 8" round cake pans, and set them upside down on the art table. The children use bronze, blue and green paint to completely cover the bottom of the cake pan. Then we take a print from their pan onto black paper. It makes the most realistic looking planet. the children sponge stars shapes around the planet, or they might use sticky stars to complete the picture.
1-20-00I put white tempura paint diluted with water in small spray bottles and had the children spray on a piece of black construction paper....I also did this on our bulletin board. It looks a lot like outer space! Then they colored in different planets (circles) with fluorescent or glow in the dark crayons and I had them cut them out and glue them onto their space construction paper. Then we used a star hole punch on aluminum foil and I had the kids glue those on as well. It is a 2 day project but they were so excited about it....They turned out really neat.
Date: 1-19-00Outer Space Windsocks Materials: Black Construction Paper, Orange Streamers, one piece of yarn, and Space Stickers Put the Space Stickers on one side of the Construction paper. On the
other side of the construction paper at the bottom tape different lengths
of streamers. Then roll it, tape it, punch two holes at the top and tie
the yarn. This looks really cute hanging in your classroom.
Date: 1-19-00Planets Materials: All different size Styrofoam balls and Crayola Art paint Let the children paint different size balls to make a planet. For Saturn, put a pipe cleaner ring around it. Fun, Fun, Fun and Easy!
ideaA project we have done is to take a piece of black construction paper and fit it inside a coffee can. Have the children dip a marble in white paint and stick it in the can. They place the lid on and role the marble around. After they pull the paper out, they glue star stickers randomly and it looks like shooting stars. Date: 9-12-99
Date: 8-19-99A Bulletin Board about Space: I went to a local store and asked if I could purchase the tops to ICEE cups ( those that look like bubbles or the front of a space ship). I took pictures of my students and cut them into the size circle that would fit on the inside ridge of the ICEE top. It looked just like the kids were in spaceships. I put the bubbles with pictures on a dark blue background and glued silver stars around them. I made a larger paper space shuttle and placed it in the center and added newspaper clippings of John Glenn's space shuttle trip last year. The kids loved seeing their pictures in these space bubbles.
Date: 7-25-99Space Ships(Flying Saucers) Have children glue two heavy paper bowls to a 12 inch cardboard circle or cardboard pizza tray, and then paint gray. After both sides dry, have children draw windows or whatever on ship and use stickers for aliens. Then hang with a string from the ceiling. Found this easiest to do if I put a metal bad through one of the bowls before gluing and painting. Date: 7-2-99Children were given a sheet of various space objects - star, sun, comet, meteor, moon and flying saucer - to color in using crayons. After doing this they cut them out and glued them onto a large sheet of white cartridge paper which they washed using blue colored dye. Then they cut out a rocket and an astronaut..tied together using a length of yarn. Taking original artwork as well as the rocket and astronaut we stuck Velcro stickers on them...now rocket can move around outer space as can the astronaut without falling off.
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