UFO Craft

We are having so much fun with our space theme!  There are so many ideas out there to try.  Our latest project was to make a UFO.

You’ll need 2 paper plates, a paper bowl, glue and anything else you want to use to decorate your UFO.

Hunter and Hailey painting their paper plates.

After painting his bowl, Hunter added some sequence.

Hailey added some glitter.

Once the bowls were dry, I used a brad to attach a string so that we would be able to hang up our UFOs.

I glued the plates together and then glued the bowl on top.

The completed UFOs.

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Alien Puppets

We made cute aliens to go along with our space theme:

You’ll need: paper bag, glue, construction paper in a variety of colors, scissors, do-a-dot markers.

Have your child decorate the bag with do-a-dot markers (and perhaps his hands and the table too).

While the kids are working on their bags, cut out a variety of sizes of circles and some teeth.

Use the circles to decorate your alien.

Hunter’s alien on the left, Hailey’s alien on the right.

Hailey wanted me to show that she decorated the back of her alien too.

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Moon Rocks

The other day we took a little trip to the moon to celebrate our space theme… while we were there we collected some moon rocks.  Just in case you are unable to go all the way to the moon, here is how to make you own moon rocks at home:

You’ll need some paint- the one pictured is a silvery paint with glitter in it.  You have to use a lot of the paint or it doesn’t really show up.  You’ll also need some black and white tissue paper, glitter, something to paint with and a rock.

Paint the tissue paper onto the rock.  (The pacifier keeps the paint out of his mouth… usually.)

While your paint is still wet, add some glitter.

Our completed moon rocks.

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Moon Sand

We are doing a theme about space right now, so we pretended that we took a little trip to the moon.  While we were there we found some moon sand to bring back to earth with us.  Just in case you aren’t able to go all the way to the moon, here is how you make some moon sand right at home 😉

All you need is sand, cornstarch and water.
(Hunter had been sick all week or I would have bought some regular colored sand.  Since he wasn’t feeling up to going out to the store to get sand I just used what we had here- and it just so happened to be blue.)

Mix together:
3 cups of sand
1 1/2 cups of cornstarch
3/4 cups of water

Stir it all up

Finished moon sand.  I really like how the moon sand feels.  I don’t like how regular sand feels, but this is different and not as messy as regular sand.  I still kept it outside, of course.

Hunter played with our moon sand.

Hailey loved the moon sand- she has played with it for hours!!

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