Space Week

June 1, 2020 /
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We started our space themed week by making Shapes Rockets. A super easy activity that encompasses learning about shapes, colors and of course space travel!

First simply cut out some shapes from different colored paper (or draw them if you have an older kiddo who can cut them out themselves). Start with a large rectangle, then three triangles, two circles and three diamonds.

The rectangle will become the body of your rocket – attach two triangles for the wings and one for the top of the rocket. The circles then become your windows and the diamonds on the bottom become the exhaust gas.

While most kids know what a rocket ship is they might not know much about how they work. We found a few fun books as we discussed Rockets & Outer Space, but the one that best explained a rocket flying on their level was Babies Love Aerospace Engineering.

Other great “Space Week” titles for younger kids include:

We talked a bit about phases of the moon and how the moon is the same size, but the parts we can see get bigger and smaller. We even used some Floam to make a new moon or crescent moon! After making our crescent moon we decided to make a full moon and had some fun dropping “meteorites” (small rocks) on it to see if they would make any craters!

Another one we grabbed was this awesome Rocket Science coloring/activity book that was tons of fun for the rainy days!

Watching the launch live was incredible – we learned a lot about space travel even from the failed attempts, but you can still find the video of the launch and tons of information here on youtube from NASA’s channel. Just skip ahead a bit to actually see them launch and go into space.

Another great activity to try this week was our balloon rocket! This works best with long balloons (like you’d use for balloon animals) but any balloon will do! Pump it up but don’t seal it then countdown, let go and watch it rocket around the room as the air gets pushed out! This was a fun one that sent them running all over looking for the rockets and coming back again and again for more! Bonus points if your rocket makes a great sound as the air is released!

We finished with yet another Rocket, this time working on our letters and built a Name Rocket. I wrote each letter of their name on a square and they put the letters in order to build the rocket. Click below for a downloadable version of the template (though you made need to add or subtract boxes depending on your kids name).

Name Rocket PDF

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