If your kids love space and space-themed crafts and activities, they will love making and playing with this easy DIY galaxy playdough.

These are the very best, FREE, outer space activities for preschoolers! Print one page or print them all for an out-of-this-world adventure!

I know I say it all the time but . . . "I LOVE THIS UNIT"! This is truly one of my favorites. It still amazes me to see how much my little sponges can absorb. The sky was the limit (literally) this week as we discussed our solar system. We started out the week with a big surprise - a rocket ship in our classroom! Our square snowman got a weekend makeover! Everyone loved pretending where the next rocket would go. Since we quickly learned that the sun is the center of our universe, we started off our week by doing a wonderful art project of the sun! This is one of my personal favorites because even though everyone uses exactly the same material, the final results are all different. We started with a BIG round circle and added our paint. Next, we covered it with clear plastic wrap - Here comes the fun part . . . next we squish it! Everyone of course has their own technique. Some are gentle while others literally beat the daylights out of it. Either way, the results are amazing! We quickly plopped the wet sun onto a LARGE piece of black construction paper and added the sun rays. OH MY! At this point I realized these were something special! One of my favorite things to do during "Solar System" week is to assign each child a planet name. This year I have 10 children in my classroom, so everyone got a planet name and we even had earth's moon! The entire week we called everyone by their planet name. I added new facts each day and by the end of the week my entire class could not only locate their planet on the diagram, but most could locate and name the entire solar system! Since the big rocket was staring at us all week, we decided to "fly to the moon!". I found this amazing astronaut over at Crayola and I knew he/she would be perfect. I tweaked him just a little by cutting him out, adding details to the flag and removing his face (we will add ours later!). Then we started painting! I was amazed at how insistent my class was about painting the American flag "the right way". Everyone wanted the little square to be blue and it had to have stripes on it! Needless to say, I was proud! I told everyone that they could do any planet they wanted. I guess they really WERE listening in circle time because each and everyone of them knew that men had already been to the moon, so off the moon we went. We made our moon by doing a good old fashion sand paper rubbing. Finally, it was time to put it all together. We added our rocket ship (with hand print flames), some stars and WOW! I hope the parents loved it as much as I did! Our Fabulous Fun Friday was SO EXCITING! First, we are lucky enough to have an amazing Dad who is a landscaper. I put out an S.O.S. for some rocks and he came through BIG time. They were perfect for our moon rocks! Everyone used silver paint to stick on some black and white tissue paper. After they dried we added a little silver glitter glue and . . . . instant moon rocks! SWEET! To me the most exciting part of the week happened when we headed to the kitchen on Friday. First we made a rocket cookie for our snack. Next, we made our very own "moon sand"! The recipe is very simple - 4 cups of sand 2 cups of corn starch 1 cup of water Mix together and have fun! AND BOY DID WE HAVE FUN! Before we knew it we had been in our kitchen area for over an hour! We even sent everyone home with their very own bag of "moon sand". Our "Solar System" week was only four days because of the "Martin Luther King" holiday on Monday. We voted and decided that we needed ONE MORE DAY, so on Monday of the following week we savored the last sweet day of our solar system with the most amazing project, a name rocket. First everyone wrote the letters of their names on little squares of paper. Next, we lined them up in the shape of a rocket, added some stars and more flames AND . . . . . . another WOW project! And, before you ask, YES! the children wrote their names BY THEMSELVES! I AM SO PROUD! It was great week. I hope you visit us again. Next week we will be talking about the circus! I'm sharing this at -

This moon craft is great for preschool, kindergarten, first grade, or older kids. It's a great art extension during a space theme in the classroom.

Free printable I spy outer space activity for kids. Simply download the PDF file, print it at home, and have fun.

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3, 2, 1....BLAST OFF! This week we are jumping into our space theme in my preschool classroom! What I love about this theme is that I can pull it out anytime of the year and my students always LOVE it! What's not to love about planets, astronauts and of course I had to throw in an alien activity! If you are looking for

Kids love learning about space! Today I'm sharing a Free Printable Solar System Hat that you can use along with your space unit!

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I've got a Spaceman Freebie but first, I have some new products added to my Teachers Pay Teachers store: ⤤ SUPER EASY to implement - GREAT for the first weeks of school!!!! Click on the pictures to check them out or click HERE to visit my Teachers Pay Teachers store and click HERE to get a FREE kit each month!! Wonder how many times I've had to remind students to use spaces between words when writing? Maybe a million! I've been wanting some "spacemen" to help students remember to use those spaces, so I decided to make some. If you would like to make some too, I have a free download for you right here: {Click here or on the picture to download} BTW, I post a lot of freebies on my blog - if you don't want to miss any of them, make sure to click on this button follow me on bloglovin': There are a couple of ways to do this - the easiest would be to print on cardstock, laminate, and cut into strips. They can be used this way, might get a little worn after a while but it would be easy enough to replace them each school year. To make them super sturdy, I wanted to make mine to fit on large craft sticks (the kind sized 6 inches x 3/4 inch). I bought these at Walmart: I tried using Mod Podge at first, and that worked good, but I realized I had a MUCH easier way to do it so I broke out my trusty Xyron machine with the laminate/permanent adhesive cartridge: This: That's the smaller one, that works just as good, I have the larger one here: I got mine years ago and it's a lot cheaper now! I loaded in the printout of Spacemen... and out they came, laminated with permanent adhesive on the back. Then I just cut out on the lines (I used my paper cutter) and peeled the backing off to stick on the craft stick. I have these sized to fit the craft sticks exactly with just a little extra on the top and bottom. I made that extra space on purpose - here's a little trick to trim off that top and bottom and make it perfectly molded to the stick. Use a fingernail file! Just use a downward motion pressing the file to the stick where the paper is hanging over. It files the paper and laminate away and shapes it to the edges of the stick: Now they are ready to use!!

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We may earn money or products from the companies mentioned in this post. Please see policies for more information.I love a good paper craft. All you need is paper and maybe some crayons or markers. This origami eye from Krokotak is fun to make, plus once you have the steps down you can make it

Galaxy shirt tutorial. Great for Star Wars and Dr. Who fans! Easy to make craft that lets you create your own Galaxy on a shirt to wear. Great activity for kids!