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.

Send Your Name to Mars

Visit the NASA website and send your name to Mars.  Your name will be included with others on a microchip on the Mars Science Laboratory rover heading to Mars in 2011!  You can print a certificate of participation for your child too.