To Infinity and Beyond!

Well, I can officially say it is Summertime! Here is to a summer of travel and relaxation. 

To kick off the Summer, I spent last week hosting a Space Camp! It was absolutely an out of this world blast :)! 

The activities we did this week are perfect to do with kids of any age! Personally, what I loved about these crafts is that they were super fun, creative, and time consuming!

To kick off the week, we started by making these cute Paper-Mache Astronaut Helmets.  
Of course, while making these helmets we talked about how a real astronaut's helmet has a microphone in it so that they can talk to each other and a tube for oxygen to come into the helmet.  

**Notes: 

1) When making these helmets, it is MUCH better to let the helmets dry for 24 hours after adding the paper mache, then paint the helmet, let the helmet dry, and THEN pop the balloon inside.

2) For the paper mache, do 3 layers - the first layer use whole sheets of paper, then for the next layer use torn sheets of paper, and for the third layer use whole sheets of paper again.  This will add for sturdiness. 

3) When drying the helmets, tie a string to the end of the balloon and hang them in a tree so that it completely dries.

Once the astronaut helmets were completed (it took about 2 days and at least 1 hour each day), all the kids wanted to do was to go outside and play astronaut space games! They could have done this for hours! 

The next craft that we did was alien art! We talked about how we have not found life in outer space yet, but of course there always could be! I then had the kids think in their brain what they would imagine an alien would look like.  It took at least an hour. 

**Note: I had the kids draw a rough draft on a piece of white paper first, then draw their design on the canvas, then paint. 

On the last day, we got as close as we could to experiencing walking on the moon by heading over to our local Hoppin' House and bouncing on Moon Bounces! 

Happy Summer!

Andrea