This fun pinwheel galaxy is perfect for teaching the orbit of the sun. All you need is a paper plate, colored construction paper, pebbles, and black and silver craft paint. Learn more: Books and Giggles
Help your students build their scientific observation skills. Space activities for kids can be made from simple objects like paper plates, crayons, and a straw like the sun dial shown. This simple sundial will teach them to tell time by tracking the sun’s movement across the sky. Learn more: Green Kid Crafts
This planets board game is a fun way to learn and practice facts about the planets in our solar system. Kids roll a die and work their way around the path to the finish line. This activity comes with free downloadable planet cards. Learn more: Inspiration Laboratories
Space activities like this one for kids encourage them to use their imaginations while they learn. Get lots of cool ideas for stocking your astronaut training center at the link. Learn more: Early Learning Ideas
On the sidewalk or on your driveway
Help your kids draw out constellations
Using the rocks for the stars. Write the name of the constellation underneath with chalk. Take pictures of the kids’ constellation creations and print the photos to make a little DIY book. They’ll love looking through it and relearning the constellations.
This clever craft simulates the tiny rover (just a couple of inches high) that NASA built to explore the surface of an asteroid and take pictures. Learn more: Space Place
This is one of those classic space activities for kids that everyone should try at least once. There are hundreds of ways to make one; find options at the link. Learn more: Gift of Curiosity
Color the free printable rocket templates, then mount them to straw launchers and send them soaring! Learn more: Buggy and Buddy
What goes better with Oreos than a glass of milk? How about a little bit of moon science! We love lessons you can eat when you’re finished, don’t you? Learn more: Science Bob
Here are a few fun ways to teach all about space
The stars
The planets and more! Space STEM:Shooting Star Spinner ~ this is a fun project that teaches about kinetic energy. You wind it up and let it spin and fly! It also is just a cool craft for when you are learning about shooting stars or meteors!
All you need is some sidewalk chalk and a small pile of rocks or stones. On the sidewalk or on your driveway
Help your kids draw out constellations
Using the rocks for the stars. Write the name of the constellation underneath with chalk.
1. Construct a spinning solar system This fun pinwheel galaxy is perfect for teaching the orbit of the sun. All you need is a paper plate, colored construction paper, pebbles, and black and silver craft paint. 2. Create a space-themed board game This planets board game is a fun way to learn and practice facts about the planets in our solar system.
Here are a few fun ways to teach all about space, the stars, the planets and more! Space STEM: Shooting Star Spinner ~ this is a fun project that teaches about kinetic energy. You wind it up and let it spin and fly! It also is just a cool craft for when you are learning about shooting stars or meteors!
Astronomy is the study of the Universe and everything in it, including planets, stars, galaxies, comets, and black holes. It's full of huge distances, gigantic sizes, and long periods of time. It's a BIG subject! Do you have what it takes to drive a robot on Mars? Find out what we know about Mars in this online tour of Earth's closest neighbor.
