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Home | Store | Forum | What's New | Contact | About | Terms | Links | Storytime | UNCRC Navigator's activity and game ideas. Plant pot rockets and lunar landings ..   Use aluminium foil sheets, plant pots, fiery red tissue paper for blast-off flames, sticky tape and role play astronauts to enjoy lunar landings in your outdoor and indoor areas .. Provide a range of planet surface material - rocks, bricks, gravel, pebbles and junk modelling boxes  for construction ..   Astronaut mission: Take off and orbit earth, find a planet, land safely, build a space station and move in ...   Encourage mark making, literacy and design with clipboards and sheets of plain & pre-filled paper, crayons and pencils. Use rulers to measure height and tape to look at circumference & distance. Introduce a safety compass to show how, from a static/stationary position an adjoining marker can track out circles and those circles can be snipped to form nose cones .. blast off, set down, moon walk, and float though physical play as any space theme develops in response to your children interests .. Some of the following printables are available in other areas of the site - outlines, activity sheets Astronauts - print, cut, colour fill, laminate and trim where representational models are unavailable Rocket outline - colour fill and use as mission sheets .. Astronaut star strings - use stickers for fine motor activity  peel & stick or scissors for cut and paste Space words - filled and blank sheet   Other space themed resources astronaut hand puppet - list of space themed books for preschool Include ICT with space torches and walkie talkies that promote communication, language and with support literacy. Make own communicators from heavier card where the functions of working toys are not necessary.  Role play rocket house for children that enjoy schematic play and enclosure dough cutters to move space adventures to malleable activities and songs for children's space themed music and dance .. www.hubblesite.org/gallery - spectacular images to decorate your role play space .. Space forum for activity ideas Cones - make aerodynamic nose tips for your rockets ..