The Sky Is the Limit Art and Craft for Kids

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Surface area SETUP

(Open thematic poster-The heaven) Print, laminate, and display all kinds of posters.

Educa-theme-The sky
(Open educa-theme-The heaven) Print and laminate the items that represent the theme. Use them to present your theme to your group (and parents) while decorating a corner of your daycare.

Educa-decorate-The heaven
(Open up educa-decorate-The heaven) Print, laminate, and cut out the diverse items. Utilise them to decorate your daycare and set the mood for the theme.

Garland-The heaven
(Open garland-The sky) Print several models. Let children decorate them. Cut them out and hang them within your daycare or near your daycare entrance to create a garland.

Stickers-The sky
(Open stickers-The heaven) Print the illustrations on adhesive paper and utilize them to create original stickers for your group.

SPECIAL TOOL

This tool was created in response to a special asking received. (Open the weather condition this calendar week) Impress, laminate, and stick Velcro behind each pictogram. During circle fourth dimension, take a few minutes to observe the sky with your group and help children decide, among other things, if they will be able to play outside. If you lot add the weather pictograms to your calendar, children volition exist able to compare the weather over a flow of a few days and depict conclusions. For example, they many discover that it has been raining for three days or that clouds were more present yesterday. The atmospheric condition is discussed daily by adults. Introducing children to atmospheric condition concepts will make it possible for them to participate in discussions outside of your daycare too.

CIRCLE TIME

Finding my circumvolve fourth dimension spot
Suit colourful stars on the floor, making certain y'all take a different color for each child. Set miniature stars (corresponding colors) in a minor box. Before circumvolve time, let each child pick a tiny star, find the star of the same colour on the floor, and sit down on it.

Animated discussion-The heaven
(Open picture show game-The sky) Impress and laminate the pictures in the format you lot prefer. Apply them to spark a conversation with your group and to ask children questions about the theme.

Poni discovers and presents-The sky

(Open Poni discovers and presents-The heaven) Print the cards. Laminate them and cut them out. Use your Poni puppet or some other boob children are familiar with to present the pictures to your group. (Open sun and moon) Print and laminate. Sit in a circle with your group. When you show children the sun illustration, they must stand up up and dance around. When yous show them the moon, they must lie down on the floor and pretend to sleep. Alternate the sunday and the moon to get children moving. Subsequently a while, encourage children to calm downwards and pursue your circumvolve time discussion.

GREETING

Earlier children arrive in the morning time, decorate your ceiling with items that can be seen in the sky: dominicus, moon, stars.

Here are a few additional suggestions:

• Hang miniature Christmas lights.
• Stick deject shapes on the ceiling in your relaxation expanse.
• Attach a paperclip to a piece of fishing wire and stick the other end on the ceiling. Use the paperclip to display a variety of items (dominicus, moon, star).
• Stick glow-in-the-dark stars on the ceiling. Hang a sunday or a moon shape over your circle time area for each child. Write their name on their shape to place their spot.

Motion picture GAME

The pictures may be used as a memory game or to spark a conversation with your grouping. Use them to decorate your daycare or a specific thematic corner. (Open film game-The sky) Print, laminate, and store the pictures in a Ziploc pocketbook or in your thematic bin.

Memory game
(Open picture game-The sky) Impress the illustrations twice and employ them for a simple memory game.

ACTIVITY SHEETS

(Open activity sheets-The sky) Action sheets are suggested for each theme. Print and follow instructions.

Means to utilise your activity sheets
Stick ii crayons end to end. Accept a child begin completing an activeness sail with one color, then encourage him to rotate the crayon and motion his fingers down like a caterpillar to continue with the reverse finish.

Different writing positions
Brandish your activity sheets on walls and on the floor or stick them under tables and take children lie on their stomach or back to complete them.

WRITING ACTIVITIES

(Open writing activities-S like sky) Print for each kid or laminate for use with a dry out-erase marker.

Educa-nuudles-The sky

(Open up educa-nuudles-The heaven) Impress for each child. Accept children color the sheet and utilise Magic Nuudles to give it a iii-dimensional look. Variation: Y'all don't have Magic Nuudles? Accept children fill the spaces designed for Magic Nuudles with bingo markers or stickers. To gild Magic Nuudles.

Stationery-The sky
(Open up stationery-The sky) Print. Use the stationery to communicate with parents, in your writing corner, or to identify your thematic bins.

Educa-spots-The sky
Print for each kid. Utilize bingo markers to add color within the circles. If you don't have bingo markers, but have children deposit cereal or stickers inside the circles.

Various WORKSHOPS-The sky

Posters-workshops
(Open posters-workshops) Print, laminate, and brandish to identify your various workshops.

Workshop planning booklet
(Open up workshop planning booklet) Print, laminate, and utilize the filigree with a dry-erase marker. This essential tool will help you prepare and create the fabric y'all need for your diverse workshops, organize your surroundings, and plan per the interests of the children in your group. It will too help you clarify your weekly activities.

Workshop follow-up booklet
(Open workshop follow-up booklet) Print for each child. This booklet will help y'all better understand how workshops foster children's development.

Construction/building blocks:

• Instead of dividing your blocks by kind (wooden, LEGO, etc.), divide them by colour.
• Brilliant pieces of felt children tin can add to their constructions.
• Sort your figurines, toy cars, etc. by color.

Drawing/Arts & crafts:

• Provide primary paint colors and permit children explore color combinations:
  • Xanthous+Cherry=Orange
  • Bluish+Red=Regal
  • Yellow+Blue=Green
• What happens when we add white paint to a primary color?
• All kinds of newspaper for cut, drawing, and creating.
• Finger pigment for exploring color combinations.
• Markers with a diversity of different tips (wide, narrow, etc.) for color exploration.
• Color by number activities.
• Coloring pages of all kinds.

Role play:

• Transform your area to make information technology expect like a "paint store". Children become painters.
• Paint fries and color samples, painter hats, paintbrushes, paint rollers, etc.
• Decorating magazines (enquire parents if they have old ones they no longer need).
• Former sweaters with paint stains.
• Create an creative person corner by adding an easel, paint, a palette, paper, paintbrushes, etc.

Manipulation:

• Memory game for exploring colors.
• Modeling dough in primary colors (permit children mix them together). Use homemade modeling dough to reduce the cost. Children will play with it for hours.
• Association game involving illustrations and colors (a cloud can be associated with white, a leaf tin can be associated with green, etc.).
• Color sorting activities using items you lot have in your daycare.
• Colourful cellophane paper for looking at objects. Stick circles of paper on the ends of your binoculars.
• A Lite-Brite game or colourful mosaics.

Reading/relaxation:

• Books about shapes and colors or simply books with pretty colors and scenes.

Music/motor skills:

• A Twister-style game, homemade or store-bought.
• Traffic light game.

Sensory bins:

• Water table: Add food coloring to the water.
• Rock bin: Utilize aquarium pebbles to create an inexpensive sensory bin.
• Froot Loops bin.

Early scientific discipline:

•  Experiments involving colors
  • Color explosion in milk.
  • The flower that changes color if nosotros add food coloring to its water.
  • Color combinations with pigment.
  • etc.

Linguistic communication ACTIVITIES

Word flashcards-The sky

(Open word flashcards-The sky) (Open giant word flashcards-The sky) Print. The word flashcards may exist used to spark a chat with your group, in your reading and writing corners, or to identify your thematic bins. sun, moon, cloud, airplane, thunder, star, bird, rainbow, hot air airship, helicopter, pelting, snow

Let's conversation
(Open word flashcards-The heaven) Print and laminate the word flashcards. Have each kid pick a flashcard. They can take turns presenting the word they picked to the group. With your group, talk about each item. Ask children questions to encourage them to share what they know about each one.

Educa-chatterbox-The sky
(Open educa-chatterbox-The heaven) Print and laminate the cards. Cutting them out and place them in an empty shoebox or pocket-size container. Add items, pictures, and illustrations related to the theme. During circle time or when children are waiting for lunch to be served, encourage them to accept turns picking a bill of fare out of the box and naming what they see.

Reinvented scrabble
(Open give-and-take flashcards-The heaven) (Open giant discussion flashcards-The sky) Impress many copies of the discussion flashcards and encourage children to use scrabble tiles to write the words. Manipulating the modest tiles represents a great fine motor skill exercise. At the same time, children will notice which messages make upward the unlike words.

Give-and-take association-The heaven
(Open up word flashcards-The sky) (Open behemothic word flashcards-The sky) Print ii copies of several different word flashcards. On a large piece of cardboard, stick one copy of each flashcard vertically to create a discussion column. Cut the second copy of each word flashcard and then you take the discussion on one side and the illustration on the other side. Attach Velcro backside each part likewise as to the right of the uncut flashcards (on the paper-thin). Arrange the cut flashcards on the tabular array and encourage children to look at your flashcard board to identify a matching discussion and analogy. When they succeed, they may stick them next to the corresponding flashcard, on your board. This exercise will aid children acquaintance words with pictures.

Word tree-The heaven
(Open word flashcards-The sky) (Open behemothic word flashcards-The sky) Print several give-and-take flashcards. Utilize a hole-punch to make a hole at the top of each flashcard. Thread a ribbon through each pigsty and tie a knot. Bring the word flashcards outside and encourage children to use them to decorate a tree. Every time a child adds a flashcard, invite him/her to "read" the corresponding word. Children will exist happy to repeat this activity many times. Eventually, they will acquire to recognize the words.

Give-and-take clothesline
(Open word flashcards-The heaven) (Open giant word flashcards-The heaven) Print two copies of several word flashcards. Hang one re-create of each give-and-take on an indoor clothesline with colourful clothespins. Arrange the copies in a pile on a table. Let children take turns picking a give-and-take and finding the matching give-and-take on the clothesline. When they find a match, they can place the flashcard on top of the i that was already hanging on the clothesline. Assistance younger children manipulate the clothespins if necessary.

Discussion race
(Open word flashcards-The sky) (Open giant discussion flashcards-The heaven) Print several word flashcards and hide them throughout your daycare or g. Split up your group into ii teams. When you lot requite them the signal, children must search for the flashcards for a pre-determined menstruum, for instance three minutes. When the time is up, children must be able to "read" their flashcards to earn a point for their team. If they are unable to find the right word, the other team can earn the point if they succeed.

Scene-The sky
(Open scene-The sky) Print, laminate, and cut out the pieces. Encourage children to use them to decorate the scene.

Motion-picture show inkling story-What's wrong Sun?
(Open pic inkling story-What's wrong Sun) Print. Sit in a circle with your group. Brainstorm reading the story. Every time you reach a motion-picture show inkling, pause to requite children the chance to identify the missing discussion.

ROUTINES AND TRANSITIONS

Game-This is my spot-Planets
(Open game-This is my spot-Planets) Print each analogy twice. Stick one copy of each picture on the table using agglutinative paper. Eolith the second copy of each illustration in a handbag and have children accept turns picking a card to decide where they are to sit at the table, their spot in the job train, etc.

My star-filled path
(Open my star-filled path) Print, laminate, and stick the illustrations on the floor to create a path leading to dissimilar areas within your daycare that children frequently visit every day such as the bath, the cloakroom, etc. If yous prefer, use the illustrations to delimit workshops.

Lost in space
Photocopy pictures of planets. Laminate them and stick them on your daycare walls. Tell children you lot are lost in infinite. Encourage them to find Earth by going from one planet to the next.

My routine-Sun
(Open positive reinforcement organization-Sun) Print and laminate. This positive reinforcement system is designed to increase children's willingness to cooperate. Hither, children collect rays they can add to their sun. For example, y'all could give children a ray every fourth dimension they wash their easily.

Game-This is my spot-Day and night
(Open up game-This is my spot-Day and night) Print each illustration twice. Stick i copy of each picture on the tabular array using adhesive newspaper. Deposit the second copy of each illustration in a bag and take children take turns picking a menu to determine where they are to sit at the table, their spot in the job train, etc.

Imaginary walk
Take children stand in a line. Have them on a walk around the daycare, pretending yous are walking around your neighbourhood. Pretend to cross paths with a diversity of obstacles such as traffic lights, a bus, a stop sign, a sign indicating a right turn, etc.

ACTIVITIES FOR BABIES

Rainbow mobile
(Open mobiles-Rainbows) Print and decorate the colourful shapes with glitter, ribbon, cotton assurance, confetti, etc. Stick them on either side of pieces of ribbon or string. Hang your mobile from the ceiling over your changing table.

Sun and Moon
Draw a large moon and a big sun shape on cardboard. Display them on a wall and have children paint them with their hands.

Stardust bottles
Create special sensory bottles for fiddling ones by filling empty water bottles with glitter and shiny objects. Babies volition beloved turning the bottles over, manipulating them, observing the contents of the bottles, and listening to the sounds produced past the contents of the bottles.

Mobile-The heaven
Use the pictures from the theme'due south educa-decorate document or pictures and illustrations from magazines to create a space-themed mobile. Just utilize dissimilar lengths of string and ribbon to hang the items over your changing table. Children will love admiring your mobile during diaper changes. Add tiny bells for actress fun.

PHYSICAL Activeness AND MOTOR SKILLS

String activities-The sky
(Open up string activities-The sky) Print for each kid. Children trace the lines with white gum before positioning a string on them.

Sky game
(Open up game-The sky) Print and laminate the pictures. Hang a large piece of light blue cardboard on a wall, at children's level. Hide printed illustrations throughout your daycare. Every time a child finds ane, he must exclaim, "The heaven is blueish!" and stick it in your sky. Keep until all the illustrations take been found.

Deject transportation
Make full a container with cotton balls. Set an empty bin at the other end of your daycare. Children apply a spoon to transfer the cotton balls to the other bin.

Holes in the moon
(Open moon with holes-Planets) Cut the moon shape out of xanthous paper. Use a hole-punch to make holes all the manner around information technology. Thread a shoelace or ribbon through the holes.

Walking on the moon
Push piece of furniture items upwardly against a wall to create a large playing surface area. Deposit several small, medium, and large unbreakable objects on the floor. For instance, you could use blocks, plastic animal figurines, etc. Set pillows or cushions on meridian of the objects and embrace everything with bed sheets. Encourage children to "walk on the moon".

Night hibernate-and-seek

Pull your curtains and organize a simple game of hide-and-seek. Give the kid who is counting a flashlight. The other children hide inside your daycare. When he is done counting, the "counter" turns the flashlight on and uses information technology to search for the others. Once all the children have been establish, invite another kid to count. (Open up lord's day and moon) Impress and laminate. Sit in a circle with your group. When you show children the sun illustration, they must stand and trip the light fantastic toe around. When you show them the moon, they must lie downward on the floor and pretend to sleep. Alternating the sun and the moon to get children moving.

Planet hop
(Open planets) Impress. Use agglutinative newspaper to secure the illustrations on the floor. Play music. When the music stops, children must sit down on a planet (variation of musical chairs).

Moon walk
Utilize hula hoops, chairs, etc. to create an obstacle course. Testify children how astronauts walk on the Moon and encourage them to walk like astronauts every bit they complete the class.

Shooting stars
Accept children crumple several pieces of recycled paper. Let them toss them in the air to represent shooting stars.

Cerebral ACTIVITIES

Snakes and ladders-The sky
(Open snakes and ladders-The sky) Print and laminate. Employ a die and tiny figurines equally playing pieces.

Counting cards-The heaven
(Open counting cards-The heaven) Impress and laminate. Prepare a series of wooden clothespins on which you tin can paint or draw numbers 1 to ix. Children count the items on each card and place the corresponding clothespin on the right number.

Educ-large and small-The sky
(Open educ-big and modest-The sky) Print the cards and invite children to arrange them from smallest to biggest or biggest to smallest.

Educ-trace-Stars
(Open educ-trace-Stars) Print for each kid. Children must trace the lines using a crayon of the corresponding color and then color the object at the finish of each line using the aforementioned colour.

Educ-pairs-Stars
(Open educ-pairs-Stars) Print. Children must draw a line to connect matching items or color them using the same color. For durable, eco-friendly employ, laminate for use with a dry out-erase marker.

Colour by number-Stars
(Open up color past number-Stars) Children must color the movie per the colour code.

Educ-intruder-Stars
(Open up educ-intruder-Stars) Impress and laminate. Children must find the half-dozen (6) items.

MORAL AND SOCIAL ACTIVITIES

Star gazing
Encourage parents to detect a star-filled sky with their child and draw what they saw together.

Surprise-filled hideout
Purchase several glow-in-the-night stars and moons. Stick them nether a table. Pall a blanket over the table to create a dark hideout. Children tin accept turns visiting your hideout to find the special surprise. Once everyone has had a plough, yous can stick various illustrations and pictures related to your theme under the table and encourage children to visit your hideout with a flashlight to explore them.

Space ship
Use three or four empty cardboard boxes or one large apparatus box. Have children paint the box(es) with gray poster paint. Set a small table within and add together an one-time computer keyboard to represent a control centre. Add former headphones and arts & crafts materials children tin can use to create alien costumes (aluminum newspaper, buttons, felt, pipe cleaners, etc.). Get gear up for take-off!

Space travel
Accept children sit in a circle and accept turns stating what they would pack if they were travelling to outer infinite. For example, they could say, "I am travelling to outer space, and I am packing my teddy bear." Each kid must repeat the items previously stated earlier calculation his own to the list.

Dress-up dolls-Astronaut
(Open apparel-up dolls-Astronaut) Print and laminate. Set the pieces on a tabular array and let children dress the doll every bit they wish.

Space camera
Utilize an empty tissue box. Punch a pigsty in it so children can encounter through it. Wrap it with aluminum paper and attach a string so children can habiliment it around their neck. They will savour pretending to take pictures of outer infinite with their special space photographic camera.

Thematic bin
Wrap a cardboard box, a recycling bin, or a plastic bin with space-themed wrapping paper to create a thematic box. Print the theme's picture show game and use the illustrations to decorate your bin. Add the following items: astronaut figurines, puzzles related to the theme, a infinite station, flashlights, rockets, books about planets or planet illustrations, greyness, white, and dark-brown modeling dough, cotton fiber balls, star-shaped agglutinative putty, planet and star-shaped tattoos, a night coating, planet-shaped lacing activities, empty paper towel rolls and crepe paper for creating rockets, bags filled with colourful balls, etc.

OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES

Behemothic tic-tac-toe-The sky
(Open up giant tic-tac-toe-The sky) Print the parts and laminate them for durable, eco-friendly utilize. Use chalk or colourful tape to draw a tic-tac-toe grid on the ground. Ii players have turns depositing a symbol in the grid. The start kid who places iii identical symbols in a row wins.

Shadow chasing
Go outside on a sunny day and invite children to chase their friends' shadows. Help them discover how certain shadows are very tall while other shadows are very small, depending on the sun'due south position.

I am tall, I am brusk...
Measure out each child'south shadow at the aforementioned spot throughout the twenty-four hour period. Help them notice how their shadow varies in size depending on the fourth dimension, even if they are always the aforementioned size.

Walking on the Moon
Create an obstruction course with hula hoops, balls, cardboard boxes, etc. Invite children to complete the course equally if at that place is zip gravity.

Planet game
Children must pick a planet (represented by a hula hoop or analogy) and stand inside or on it. Give ane child a star (ball). He must toss information technology to another kid, naming the respective planet. The longer children play, the better they will become at naming planets.

MUSICAL AND RHYTHMIC ACTIVITIES

Musical word
(Open up word flashcards-The heaven) (Open up giant word flashcards-The sky) Print 2 copies of several word flashcards and eolith them in a box. Have children sit down in a circle and manus them the box. To the sound of music, children pass the box around the circle. When the music stops, the child holding the box picks a flashcard and names the particular.

Twinkle, twinkle little star
Children walk around the daycare every bit they sing Twinkle, twinkle little star. When the song ends, they lie downwardly on the flooring and spread their arms and legs to represent a star.

Moon dance
(Open Sun and Moon) Print several moon models and stick them on the floor. Play music. When the music stops, children must quickly sit down on a moon.  Variation: (Open planets) Impress and laminate. Use adhesive paper to arrange them on the floor. Play music. Every time the music stops, children must quickly detect a planet to sit on.

RELAXATION ACTIVITIES

The sky
Invite children to pigment the solar system on a big piece of paper equally a group. One time information technology is dry, stick their masterpiece on the ceiling in your naptime area.

Stardust
Fill Ziploc numberless with cheap hair gel and glitter. Seal the bags (add agglutinative tape). Children will enjoy manipulating the bags. Variation: Set the bags in the refrigerator for a few hours to provide a new texture and awareness that children will relish exploring.

EARLY Scientific discipline/MANIPULATION/EXPLORATION

Deject catchers
(Open cloud) Print several copies and cutting out the clouds. Set them in a bin filled with cotton balls. Children shut their eyes and plunge their hands in the bin. The goal is to find a cloud.

Lite-Brite
Permit children explore this pop game and use it to discuss how stars shine brightly in the sky.

Star exploration
Invite children to bring a flashlight to daycare. Have children paint Styrofoam drinking glasses. Permit dry. Dial holes in the bottom of each glass, creating a variety of designs. In a dark room, show children how they can insert their flashlight in the glasses and indicate them towards the ceiling to see "stars".

Shooting stars
Line a big metal coffee can with blackness or dark blue construction newspaper. Set a mixture of white paint and Elmer'south glue (information technology is very of import that y'all use Elmer's glue for this experiment). Press ping-pong balls in the mixture before dropping them in the tin can. Permit children shake the tin in every direction. After a few minutes, remove the paper to observe the path of your shooting stars. Use the assurance to create a mural.

Gravity in space
Give each child an inflated balloon. Have them depict an astronaut face on their balloon. Encourage children to tap their balloon up in the air to make it bladder around similar an astronaut in space. Utilise this activity to hash out gravity.

The Sun's heat
You will need four Ziploc numberless. Make full them with h2o. Cover the start bag with white paper, the second pocketbook with orangish paper, the third bag with black paper, and the last bag with aluminum paper. Set all iv bags in the sun for ane hour. Later on one hr, measure the temperature of the water in each purse with a thermometer. Compare the results and employ them to talk most the Sunday's strength and how the Sun is attracted to different colors with your grouping.

The Earth spins
Use chalk to marker a ray of sunday on the ground. Every 30 minutes, mark its new position with your group and use this action to help children sympathize how the Earth spins around the Dominicus.

CULINARY ACTVITIES

My planet with a hole in the centre
Spread cream cheese on a bagel. Decorate it with sliced fruit. Add together a hard-boiled egg in the heart to stand for an edible planet. Variation: Use flavoured foam cheese or add together nutrient coloring to your cream cheese.

My moon pizza
You lot will demand half an English language muffin for each child. Encourage children to notice how the holes in their English muffin look a lot like craters. Let them garnish their English muffin with pizza sauce, veggies, and cheese.

Apple satellite
Yous volition need half an apple per child. Have children place their half-apple tree apartment on a plate. Permit them use toothpicks to add "antennae" to their satellite, pressing grapes or miniature marshmallows on the end of each one.

Space-themed snack
Serve a variety of dried fruits. Explain how astronauts can't eat regular meals and how the food they eat must be very light.

Star fruit
Buy carambolas, slice them, and serve them at snack time. Brand sure children observe the fruit is star-shaped.

Sunny snack
Requite each kid one-half of a peach to represent a sun. Fill the crenel with cottage cheese to represent a cloud. Enjoy as a snack!

Day and nighttime
Use cookie cutters to cut bread slices and give them star, moon, or deject shapes. Repeat the same operation with cheese slices. At snack time, set the shapes in forepart of your group and let them associate matching shapes earlier eating them.

Moon water
Invent a elementary story and serve moon water to your group throughout the theme. For example, you lot can tell children that ane of your friends is an astronaut who went to the Moon and that he shared the recipe for moon water with yous. All you demand is a pitcher filled with h2o and lemon wedges. Stir everything together and serve at snack time.

ARTS & CRAFTS

Artistic clouds
(Open creative cloud) Print for each child. Invite children to stick cotton fiber balls all over their cloud. Accept them draw raindrops under their cloud to complete the scene.

My rainbow
(Open rainbow) Print. Cutting strips of colourful construction paper and take children employ scissors to cut them into tiny pieces they tin can gum in the rainbow sections, respecting the color sequence of a rainbow.

My sky
Accept children paint a slice of paper-thin with dark blue paint. Permit dry. Press cotton fiber balls in yellowish poster paint and stamp them in the blue sky to represent planets and stars.

A collective lord's day
On a large slice of cardboard, describe a yellowish circle. Paint children'south hands with xanthous poster paint and take them printing them all the style around the circle to represent rays. Write the name of each child in ray.

Star-filled sky
Hang large pieces of dark paper on a wall. Mix water and yellow poster paint in a spray bottle. Permit children spray the mixture on the paper. Permit dry out and display.

Puppets-Stars
(Open puppets-Stars) Print the models on heavy newspaper. Have children cut them out and decorate them with a variety of arts & crafts materials. Stick a Popsicle stick backside each one to complete your puppets.

Models-Stars
(Open model-Star) Print the model and utilise it for your diverse needs and activities throughout the theme.

I am learning to cutting-A star
(Open I am learning to cut-A star) Print the model on newspaper or cardboard. Invite children to cutting forth the lines to practice their cutting skills.

The sky
Invite children to pigment the solar arrangement on a large piece of paper every bit a grouping. Once information technology is dry, stick their masterpiece on the ceiling in your naptime expanse.

My miniature astronaut
(Open miniature astronaut) Print, cut out, and color. Take children glue the pieces on an empty toilet paper roll. Hang the astronauts from the ceiling.

Blue skies above
Requite each child two empty toilet paper rolls. Accept children paint them blue earlier sticking them together to represent binoculars. Punch 2 holes, one on either side of their binoculars, and thread the ends of a blue string through them. Knot them inside the rolls. Add bluish cellophane paper to the end of each toilet paper roll. Encourage children to look through their blueish binoculars to come across a very bluish sky.

Star magic
Have children utilize a white crayon to draw stars on a piece of white paper. Encourage them to printing as hard as they can. Next, have them use blue or blackness affiche paint to paint over the stars and watch them appear, like magic.

Glowing in the night
Purchase glow-in-the-dark paint and have children paint a starry sky on dark newspaper. Once dry, encourage them to admire their masterpiece in a nighttime room.

Shine Sun, Smoothen!
Requite each child a paper plate and have them paint it with yellow, orangish, and ruddy paint. Take children cut rays out of yellow or orange paper and glue them around the outside of their plate.

Shining stars
(Open up model-Star) Print several copies. Have children cutting out a star and use white glue to add glitter all over it.

Sun
(Open models-Sun) Print for each child. Let children color their sun before gluing information technology on orange construction paper. Cut out each child's sun and hang them from the ceiling using invisible wire.

The render of the Sun
(Open models circles) Use the models to trace circles on yellow and orange construction newspaper: a large circle out of the orangish paper and a small circle out of the yellow paper or vice versa. Children then stick the modest circle on the big circle. Adjacent, they cut strips of yellow and orangish construction paper to stand for rays and gum them all the mode around their sun.

Daytime sky, nighttime heaven
Stick a piece of black construction paper and a piece of light blue construction paper together to represent a daytime sky and a nighttime sky. Ready a series of white items (cotton balls, cord, tissue paper, chalk, a star shape, a moon shape, etc.). Have children mucilage them on the dark paper to complete the dark sky. Provide a cotton brawl, a sun shape, cord attached to a kite shape, a bird, etc. Have them glue these items on the bluish paper to consummate the daytime sky. Hang their piece of work from the ceiling so both sides can be admired.

The galaxy
Pigment Styrofoam balls to stand for planets and hang them from the ceiling.

Collective constellation
Glue a piece of dark paper-thin on a piece of wood. As a grouping, stick planets, stars, and cotton balls (to stand for clouds) on the paper. Utilize unlike sizes of Styrofoam balls that are cut in two and painted for the planets.

Bright star
Take children cut a star shape out of heavy paper and wrap it with aluminum paper. Hang children'due south stars from the ceiling.

Telescope
Use an empty paper towel or wrapping paper curl to make a telescope. Glue stars on the walls and ceiling throughout the daycare. Children will have fun admiring them through their telescope.

COLORING PAGES

(Open coloring pages theme-The sky) Print for each child.

Different Ways TO Employ THE COLORING PAGES

Identical coloring pages-The sky
Print the aforementioned coloring folio for each kid and an boosted copy for your model. Color just sure parts of your movie. Present the model to your group and inquire them to color their picture to make it await exactly like yours.

Coloring folder-The sky
Impress and laminate several coloring pages and conform them in a binder with a few dry-erase markers. Leave everything on a table for children to explore.

Musical drawing-The heaven
Play musical drawing with your grouping. Give each child a coloring page. Have children sit down around a table. When the music starts, they must pass the coloring pages around the table. Every time the music stops, they must color the movie in front of them until the music starts again.

Homemade puzzles-The sky
Give each child a moving-picture show to color. When they are done, cut each picture into pieces to create unique puzzles.

I AM LEARNING TO DRAW

(Open I am learning to draw-A star) Print and laminate the model sheet. Invite children to practice their drawing technique on the model sheet before trying to draw a star on their ain.

(Open I am learning to describe-A sun) Impress and laminate the model sheet. Invite children to do their cartoon technique on the model sheet before trying to draw a sun on their ain.

SONGS & RHYMES

(Open songs & rhymes-The sky)

By: Patricia Morrison

The heaven

Looking up at the large blue sky
I run into a bird flying past

Looking up at the sunny sky
I see a fluffy deject floating past

Looking upward at the dark night sky
I encounter stars shining manner up high

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