Sunday, February 28, 2010

Super Easy Space Shuttle

The "N" in the Florida alphabet book is for NASA.  C and R were very excited to make their own space shuttles.  This craft is super easy and you probably have everything you need.


  1. Paint a paper towel tube white
  2. Cut a large triangle out of white paper or card stock
  3. After the tube is dry, glue it to the triangle
  4. Paint a piece of aluminum foil black and wrap it around the nose of the shuttle (you can use black paper if you want, I just like the way the aluminum foil stays in place when I wrap it around the tube)
  5. Cut some strips of red tissue paper and glue them inside the bottom of the tube to look like flames (if you don't have tissue paper, use any red or orange paper)

Practice counting backwards from ten.  10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 BLAST OFF, and run around the room like crazy with your space shuttle.

6 comments:

danita said...

cute, cute, cute! i'm def. going to do this with the pea!

Ticia said...

What a fun project! I bet my kids would love to do this when we get there.

Susana said...

This is so cool! Since we are still doing space and rockets this next week, we ARE making this!

Thanks--this came at a perfect time!

I love the pics of them with their rockets!

Valerie @ Inner Child Fun said...

This looks like so much fun! What kid wouldn't enjoy learning more about NASA?

Natalie PlanetSmarty said...

Love this craft - it's really at our level of complexity. If Anna has any inclination, we will do it for our Russian week. After all, space flight did come from Russia :)

Rebecca said...

Hmm, if my son ends up having a space party in a couple months, we might do this :)