On April 12, many countries will celebrate the World Day of Aviation and Astronautics. Our compatriot, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, first went into open space and made an orbital flight around the Earth on April 12, 1961. It is very important to instill in children from early childhood patriotism, interest in scientific achievements, teach courage and courage. Concerts, thematic lectures, exhibitions of crafts on the theme of space and aviation are organized in kindergartens and schools for the holiday.
Crafts for kindergarten
Teachers choose crafts in kindergarten for Cosmonautics Day taking into account the age of the children. Kids are offered simple crafts: pictures, postcards, souvenirs made of paper, cardboard, plasticine, salt dough. Older children can already cut out the templates of the future picture and stick them on the contours of the picture. Senior groups can be offered to fold a simple origami, make a 3D postcard, make a craft from scrap materials: balloons, balls, plastic bottles, cones, acorns, etc.
For kindergarten, the following options for crafts for Cosmonautics Day will be relevant:
- Rocket;
- Plane;
- Cosmonaut;
- Alien;
- Flying saucer;
- Planets;
- Stars.
Kids 2-3 years old
We offer with young children to make a craft from a cardboard sleeve (you can use a toilet paper sleeve) and colored paper by April 12. As a result, you should get a rocket that can be placed on a blue background, and a figure of an astronaut should be placed next to it.
Stages of work:
- Cover the sleeve with colored paper.
- Attach a colored cone on top to create a rocket mockup.
- Glue the coasters on the sides (let the adults help you fold the coasters so that the rocket can stay upright on them).
- It remains to glue the portholes, which are also cut out of colored paper.
On a note! Foil can be used with colored paper to make the rocket look more realistic.
Parents can make kindergarten crafts from multi-colored cereals with the kids. First you need to print the drawing on paper, which is glued to thick cardboard. Choose an image on the subject of space and aviation, but it is very important that the details of the drawing are large: this will make it easier for the child to make the applique. Picture templates can be found on the Internet or cut from an unnecessary magazine. Then prepare cereals (buckwheat, rice, millet, semolina), which must first be painted with food colors in different colors.
We take a glue stick, smear one part of the drawing, for example, the base of the spaceship. Then the baby sprinkles certain cereals on the glue so that there is no empty space left. When all the details of the picture are filled in with grains, turn the picture over to shake off the extra grains.
On a note! Working with small objects helps the development of fine motor skills in young children, so teachers and psychologists advise using various cereals as often as possible to create crafts.
Video: How to make a rocket out of paper
Video: Exhibition of Space Crafts in Kindergarten
Children 4-6 years old
Older kids are happy to make crafts on the topic of space. We propose to make a simple picture of colored paper on which a rocket will be depicted. If a preschooler already knows how to use children's scissors, let him cut out blanks for a future rocket from paper: a base, wings, portholes, a nozzle, as well as stars and planets that will surround our spaceship.It remains to collect all the blanks on colored cardboard using a glue stick.
On a note! A beautiful and bright design is obtained from self-adhesive paper. It is easy to stick, and it will be easy for children to make an application for the holiday.
You can cut a flying saucer out of colored cardboard, and decorate the edges with beads and sequins, which are attached with glue. You can glue the figurine of a cute alien inside the plate. An excellent option for crafts in the kindergarten!
Plasticine is often used for all kinds of crafts in kindergarten. Children can mold various figures from it: rockets, astronauts, planets, stars. Figures can be placed on thick cardboard or attached to a base to make a picture of plasticine. It will be easier for children to work with wax plasticine, which is more plastic and soft.
Video selection of children's crafts for Cosmonautics Day
Crafts to school
Practically every school in our country holds festive events dedicated to April 12. Celebratory concerts are being prepared for the holiday, quizzes, lectures, themed evenings, as well as exhibitions of handicrafts for the Day of Cosmonautics are organized. Usually, in school work, all kinds of improvised materials are used: fir cones, foam balls, fabric, glass pebbles, colored paper, napkins, cardboard and much more. Connect your imagination, come up with original options for crafts and surprise the jury with a non-standard solution and creativity.
For school, you can draw a homemade wall newspaper dedicated to the theme of space. Teamwork will unite the students in the class and help create an interesting copy that students and teachers will be happy to read.
Primary School
It is easier for students in grades 1-4 to create a DIY craft for Cosmonautics Day, because they already know how to cut, carefully paste applications and work with many different materials. Often, primary school students are asked to make figurines from salt dough.
To get bright and colorful dough figurines, you will need the following materials:
- Salted dough of various colors;
- Toy eyes for aliens (you can buy them at the hardware store or use eyes from unnecessary toys);
- Buttons, beads.
When an elementary school class makes crafts, the teacher is required to provide materials and observe the manifestation of imagination in children. There is no need to offer a ready-made version of the craft, the child himself will happily come up with the basic concept. The dough can be used to make a figurine of a space rocket, colorful aliens, planets and stars. Until the dough is frozen, the figures are decorated with buttons, sequins, beads. Planet Earth can be made of blue dough.
Using cookie cutters, cut out the stars from the dough. Decorate them with sparkles, rhinestones, beads. Punch a hole in one beam, insert a string with a ring, and you will have a keychain for the holiday.
5-9 grades
In middle grades, many schoolchildren put up their "space" craft for a competition. The more interesting it is, the more chances you have to get a well-deserved victory in a creative craft competition among schoolchildren. All kinds of installations that are made of cardboard, colored paper, foil, plasticine, and various materials at hand are popular. Options for "space" installations:
- Cardboard rocket, stars, plasticine astronaut, several planets (plastic balls painted with gouache). Stretch a piece of blue fabric on thick cardboard, secure with a stapler. All elements of the installation are attached to a fishing line and double-sided tape.
- Space rocket, lunar rover, two astronauts who landed on the moon. Bend a sheet of blue cardboard. We put another sheet of cardboard inside to make it look like a box with two walls and a bottom. We glue the stars cut from the foil on the side parts.The lunar rover can be made from an empty container from under a chocolate egg, and astronauts can be molded from colored dough.
- Rockets made from cardboard sleeves, colored paper, foil. Take a cardboard shoe box, cut off the lid. Stick a picture of the night sky inside (you can draw it yourself or print it from the Internet). Use rope or fishing line to attach the rockets to the side of the box to give the impression that they are flying against the background of the cosmic sky.
Children's crafts can be made from plastic bottles painted with acrylics. A picture made using plasticine technique looks beautiful. Give students the opportunity to unleash their creativity and come up with their own unique craft.
Ideas for high school students
High school students are also happy to participate in making crafts for the holiday dedicated to astronautics. Teenagers can put up a craft for a competition or give it as a souvenir to parents, classmates, teachers. A stand with planets can become an unusual craft. What materials will be needed:
- Multi-colored plasticine;
- Shiny and colored paper;
- Empty containers for chocolate eggs;
- Foil cuts;
- Paints, brush;
- Wire;
- Fantasy and creativity.
Getting started:
- Build a plasticine planet stand.
- Roll planets of different sizes from foil.
- Cut the wire, attach one end to the ball, and place the other in the stand.
- Next, turn on your imagination and decorate the planets the way you want. You can paint them with gouache or finger paints, stick with colored plasticine, decorate with beads, sequins, sparkles, beads.
The craft made of polyurethane foam, which will personify the conquest of the moon by astronauts, looks unusual and festive. Your actions:
- Prepare an unnecessary shoebox. Cut off the top cover and paint the walls black. Use glitter paint to paint the stars and planets (you can cut them out of foil and glue them to the box).
- The Moon landscape is created using polyurethane foam. Apply foam to the bottom of the box and leave to dry completely overnight.
On a note! Use disposable gloves when working with polyurethane foam!
- Use homemade salted dough to mold astronauts. You can use toothpicks to keep all the details of the figures firmly in place.
- Lunar craters can be carved into dried polyurethane foam with a sharp knife.
- From unnecessary cars and various small parts, for example, bottle caps, we assemble the lunar rover. We put it on the "lunar" surface, next to it we attach figures of astronauts with the help of a wire.
- From plastic balls, painted with paints, we make planets that are installed on a wire.
High school students who are fond of needlework will be happy to embroider a picture on the theme of space. All that remains is to put the embroidery in a frame, and it will be a wonderful gif.webpt for the Day of Cosmonautics.
You can also bake gingerbread in the shape of rockets, flying saucers, astronauts, stars and planets. Use colored icing to paint the pattern on the gingerbread cookies. You can arrange colorful gingerbread cookies in gif.webpt bags and give them to classmates and teachers on April 12. Rest assured, everyone will be delighted with such an unexpected surprise!
Making crafts with your own hands is always interesting and exciting for children of any age, especially on the mysterious, intriguing theme of space. In kindergarten and school, children will happily start creating unique masterpieces of varying degrees of difficulty in order to surprise their parents and participate in contests for the best craft.
