Space and Planets

We only had one preschool day of learning about space and planets, because the second day we took a field trip to the planetarium. Our planetarium has lots of free exhibits, so you only pay if you are watching one of the movies or shows. Sadly, I didn't get a lot of photos of either day.

To introduce the theme we sang Twinkle Twinkle Little Star and talked about stars and if we could count them, how far away they are, etc. 

We made a cute craft that I found at Preschool Education-Space Theme. 

Space Mobile: Need: Yarn, foil, paper, glitter, paper tube. Directions: We threaded a piece of yarn through the tube and tied it at the top to hang the mobile.  We punched holes in the tube and hung three pieces of yarn from it. (this part was prepared ahead of time). On the yarn the children hung a crescent moon, a star (wrapped in foil) and a sun ( two circles with pieces of yarn sandwiched in between for the rays) that the children had decorate with glitter on both sides. 

We also made our cute paper towel tube rockets. I helped them cover a paper towel tube with aluminum foil and had some precut circles to make the top cone and we added red tissue paper flames. I let them add their foam stickers and such as well. They LOVED these. My boys played with them for a few weeks until they fell apart. 

You can see all the moving rockets here. Those rockets flew all over the place! 

I had wanted to make this little recipe for Moon Rocks, but I ran out of time. 

Moon Balls Ingredients: 2 C. Peanut butter, 1 1/3 C. Honey, 2 C. Raisins 2 C. Dry milk, 3 1/2 C. Graham cracker crumbs (keep 1/2 c. separate). Mix dry milk, raisins, and 3 c. graham cracker crumbs. Add honey and peanut butter, mix will (hands do best). Roll into small balls. Place remaining 1/2 c. of graham cracker crumbs in a large baggie Place several balls at a time into the baggie and shake, then place on a Cookie sheet. Chill then eat.

I just bought powdered sugar donut holes instead. :)

We made it more exciting by taking a train down town to the planetarium. Since my boys LOVE trains, this was very exciting!

Walking on Mars!

My boys loved this little field trip, and ask all the time when we can go back.