I don't know if it was only me or every kid dreams of visiting moon and escaping the gravitational pull in childhood.
Besides gravitational pull, I used to find slowing down of time quite fascinating. If you have watched Interstellar then you will get it.
My son who is 5 years old, also takes a great deal of interest in Space.
One of the reason that he was over the moon when Space Week announced in his school. All days were jam-packed with activities.
| Monday | Costume Day |
|---|---|
| Tuesday | Quiz Day |
| Wednesday | Video Watching |
| Thursday | Presentation |
| Friday | Project |
On Monday, he wore a rocket shirt to school.
On Tuesday, he enjoyed a lot answering questions related to planets.
On Wednesday, he watched a Space movie which I don't know anything about but he was happy when he came back home.
On Thursday, it was presentation day of another class.
On Friday, it was project day to which he looked forward the most.
A day before, we worked on the project. He can't use scissors properly so I did all the cutting and let him do other stuff like pasting and painting and we strictly followed all his ideas and imagination.
Idea
Astronaut M visits planet Mars to meet his alien friend, Vector.
This was totally his idea.
Materials Used
- Cardboard Box
- White thick paper sheet
- Aluminium Foil
- Extra Cardboard pieces
- Paints
Process
- Cardboard box has 6 sides. I cut three sides as you can see in the picture.
- Then I wrapped remaining structure with white sheet and started painting the walls black.
- My son helped me in the painting. He made galaxies with me and he loved sprinkling stars with white paint.
He was getting edgy when I took out purple, red and gray paints. But when I showed him how these colors together can make galaxies then he couldn't stop making them with me.
Then we cut out round shapes from extra cardboard sheets. Made Earth, Moon and Jupiter.
When it was time to paint Jupiter, he told me to make the storms. I didn't even remember Jupiter had storms.
We also made a small satellite with aluminium foil. My son suggested the name - MINIAC so ofcourse we had to go with it.
I let him stick every thing with double tape on the sky we made earlier.
Then it was turn to work on the Mars surface. I spread the aluminium sheet on the ground. I deliberately made some impressions and left a lot of creases in the sheet. Since it was going to be the ground so I wanted to create some texture.
After fixing the sheet, we painted it with a hint of Red, Burnt and Raw Umber shades. Since it didn't need detailing so I let my son do the painting.
I crumbled some small pieces of aluminium foil to make rocks and hills and painted them as well.
Then we made an alien, an astronaut, a flag and fixed them all with toothpicks in the rocks.
And oh yes, my son had a UFO sharpener, we fixed it as well behind the alien.
The project was done and we were happy the way it looked. It was simple but my it was a great learning process for both of us. It was great activity which helped us spend quality time with each other.
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I loved it, I always wanted to do this type of projects and make short films using only images, here in Venezuela we don't usually do crafts or projects like that, although I see them a lot in the movies, every time there is a science fair, there is always a child who has something like that. I really like it I think I'll do it when I have time and that way I cross something off the list of things to do ☺️
What kind of crafts you do in Venezuela?
Yes, in every science fair, there's such a project. Probably, that's why my son wanted something like that.
Please do share if you create something and tag me. I would love to check it out. 😀
Here they are generally more cultural projects, depending on the class you can focus on one thing or another. That is, if the project is sent by Geography, then you make a model of the geography of your state or city, If it is Biology you talk about the fauna and flora that are in your environment, if it is about history or culture, you can do it about the areas oil companies, livestock areas, natural heritage...
In general, it's fine, it's nice, and besides, there are also projects more focused on science, like lighting an LED with a lemon and that kind of thing. But, in Venezuela, bullying is practically a national sport, so children do not risk (when they already have a certain degree of awareness) to carry a model with a caricature theme or anything that is different 🤔
I don't know, but I find it quite interesting, because on the one hand it makes us be a little less open-minded to avoid long-term rejection and on the other hand it makes us have a little tougher skin when it comes to receiving criticism.
One way or another, thanks for answering my comment and making me think a bit ☺️
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This is outstanding....💗💗🤗
It's so amazing and breath-taking seeing this little cutie creatures being extremely creative and vast... I'm so in love with how he came up with this astronauts and alien invasion. For the fact you allowed him do his thing and just helped by cutting those stuffs is so just coooooolll🤗... I forget to say this I came in from dreemport.
Wow, very nice.
Hats off to you and your son.
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This is lovely to see. Imma be a mother one day. Hopefully my kids don't take me to space. I'd get lost 😅
Haha... You never know.