Space and Cardboard Box Day
Hello my name is Sue and I’m a teacher and an author. I write children’s picture books about buses, especially Play buses.
A bus you can play on and use your imagination, I love to play, don’t you? I love playing with Lego too! Today’s day is ‘’Cardboard Box Day and National Space Day. Come along and join my Space Adventure
Make Junk Model Rockets and Space Gear
Using cardboard tubes or boxes make a rocket and cover it with foil.
Make some control wrist bands to wear and add buttons to message mission control.
Maybe make some air tanks using old plastic bottles or a space helmet to wear on your head.
Draw a picture of your spaceman or your rocket ship.
Label it.
Help the children to make a space rocket with cardboard tubes or other suitable junk.
What other construction toys could they use to make a rocket.
Help them to think of things they could wear to make themselves into a spaceman.
Maybe they could wear their space gear on the climbing frame.
What would they say?
(Mission control; blast off!)
Make a space badge.
Draw a picture to label.
This activity supports language and fine motor skills.
Make a control box
We are going to use a Cardboard Box to make a spaceship control box.
What could we use to make a box full of dials and buttons to press?
Help the children to make a space rocket with cardboard tubes or other suitable junk.
What other construction toys could they use to make a rocket.
Help them to think of things they could wear to make themselves into a spaceman.
Maybe they could wear their space gear on the climbing frame.
What would they say?
(Mission control; blast off!)
Make a space badge.
Draw a picture to label.
This activity supports language and fine motor skills.
Space Background
We will need to make a dark night sky for our space journey to the moon.
What will we see in the sky?
Help the children make stars for their backdrop and add planets and stars.
(If they remember their ‘Mother Earth Day they could use their Earth model)
Get all of today’s models ready for our zoom to the moon.
This activity helps language and communication development.
Zoom to the Moon
Now we have everything we need to zoom to the moon. Get ready with our space gear on, our rockets ready to fly and our control box too.
Help the children to sing the song and fly their rockets
Extension: Perform the song with actions.
This activity helps develop your child’s language and communication, memory and performance.
Extension
Space Travel: Perhaps the children could explore different books about space and the planets. Look at spaceships and the control box dial’s they might need.
Visit the local park and use the climbing frame to take on a role for a space journey!
Rhyme Time with Daisy Daydream
A Playbus is a good place to use your imagination and play.
Daisy Daydream has her own story book but also a book full of familiar rhymes.
(About buses of course)
Grown Ups
Ask questions about using their imagination and play.
What do you enjoy?