Here is my sharing board I put together for our conference next week. I LOVED how it turned out. This you I did a space theme.
Aliens Love Underpants Space Ships
Create alien space ships with a simple paper plate and Q-Tip paint with liquid water colors. I saw a version of this space ship on Pinterest. I did my own twist and this is what I came up with!
Directions for space ship - Using a circle
cutter, cut a little more than a half circle in the center of an inexpensive
white paper place. Using the same
cutter, we cut out our aliens and pasted them onto the plate. Aliens can be found in the “Downloads and
Games” tab on http://www.aliensloveunderpants.com/ or create your
own. Place a thin line of white glue on
the edge of the bottom half of the paper plate.
Fold over the rim of the plate and
secure with small binder clips. These
clips will help hold while the glue is drying and also serve as the feet for
the space ships. These were made up in
advance.
Decorating our aliens and space crafts – First add
eyes. What alien would be complete
without a few eyes! Add several sticker
and/or self stick wiggly eyes. These are
great for fine motor. Then its time to
paint! Liquid water colors in Styrofoam
egg cartons and q-tips works the best.
The kids were encourage to decorate their aliens and space crafts.
The
results were out of this world!
Doodle on the Moon – Fun, simple (and
low-ink) printable activity to spark kids imagination to…. a full moon glow! Put out large moon and let the kids doodle & put on
space stickers!
There’s a very big
size to print for the full effect, medium size and a one page version for small
doodles and journals.
Large Moon (12 pages,
22 Mb) LTR
Medium Moon (6 pages, 11 Mb ) LTR
Small Moon (1 page, 2.5 Mb) LTR
Medium Moon (6 pages, 11 Mb ) LTR
Small Moon (1 page, 2.5 Mb) LTR
Cutting/Fine Motor – Give each child
their own moon to cut out to put in their journal.
Journals - Paste moons in
their journals! Instruct them to write
their name and the date
in numbers. Doodle on
their moon and add some space
stickers.
Have the class line up in a circle with a teacher on either side with an iPad. Select “Match” and then one of the “Listen” games. Have the kids take turns pressing the space ship with the speaker. Then select the correct alien based on what they heard. Challenge the kids with the numbers up to 50 or ABCs upper and lower case.
Top off the Day with Mini Vanilla Moon Pies!
4 comments:
Hi! I love your alien loves underpants activity and am going to try it in my four year old son's class next week! Quick questions -- where do you purchase an easy to use circle cutter? Also, should I use watercolors for four year olds or just let them decorate with markers? Thanks so much for your feedback! Carrie Heller
The circle cutter is from creative memories. I did water colors with my 4s and it works fine. Put the water colors in Styrofoam egg cartons and use q-tips for painting.
Thank you for sharing your ideas! We made Aliens wearing Underpants in UFOs for our Letter U craft at Playgroup this week. We coloured them with felt pens, and added fun googly eyes.
Hi, Love what you did with the paper plate alien space ship craft. This craft originally came from Danielle's Place. I am the creator of this craft. I would appreciate it if you would state where this craft came from and put a link to my website to this page: http://www.daniellesplace.com/html/outer-space-crafts.html#ufo3 Thanks. Also I would love to put a link to your blog to let my viewers know what you are doing with the craft. Would you let me use one of your images on Danielle's Place with a write up about it and a link back to your blog?
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