Camp Quarantine Week 3: Space

Makers Monday

Design a space shuttle

We kicked off space week by designing space shuttles made from cereal boxes and toilet paper rolls. You gotta love the versatility of toilet paper rolls, right? I used this template from Pink Stripey Socks and the shuttles came out perfect.

Tasty Tuesday

Try astronaut ice cream

I thought it would be fun to have the kids try astronaut ice cream aka freeze dried ice cream. The verdict? It was too hard and not nearly as delicious as regular ice cream. We had a long conversation about why food needs to be modified for consumption in space and watched a bunch of astronaut Chris Hadfield's videos about living in space. 

Learn phases of the moon with Oreos

Our second Tasty Tuesday activity was learning the phases of the moon using Oreo cookies. I didn't get any good pictures but we ate soooo many cookies. Check out the directions from The Brighter Writer.

Whatever Wednesday

Create playdough aliens

I wonder at what age kids no longer think play dough is fun. It's such a versatile medium for all sorts of projects. The kids used play dough and their imaginations to create models of what they think aliens look like. This was a super simple project inspired by Rainy Day Mum.

Thinking and Thoughtful Thursday

Design your own planet

We use this free worksheet from education.com to design our own planets and then recreated our planets using perler beads. The kids had to come up with a planet name, describe how people would be able to live there and what they would do to protect the planet's environment. The real winner here was the decision to use perler beads to recreate the planets they drew. They LOVED doing it and it took such a long time. 

Fun Friday

Create a model solar system

This create your own solar system project sounded fun but turned out to be a hot mess. The paint colors didn't include brown so the kids mixed a bunch of colors together and made a huge mess, they spilled paint on the floor and the strings kept getting tangled. Perhaps this would be more successful if the kids were older? Who knows. I tossed the model after this project was done.