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Explore Our Universe! Family Storytime, Week 6: Into the Great Unknown Aliens, Black Holes, and Other Mysteries of Space

BOOKS Nova the star eater by Lindsay Leslie and John Taesoo Kim Your alien by Tammi Sauer and Goro Fujita Best frints in the whole universe by Antoinette Portis There was a black hole that swallowed the universe by Chris Ferrie Llama destroys the world by Jonathan Stutzman Life on mars by John Agee Nuts in space by Elys Dolan Even aliens need snacks by Matthew McElligott Aliens in underpants save the world by Claire Freedman Pluto gets the call by Adam Rex Pluto visits earth by Steve Metzger 8 spinning planets by Brian James Pete the Cat: out of the world by James Dean SONG FIve Little Aliens (Tune: One Little Duck Went Out One Day) Five little aliens went out to play Over the moon to the milky way. Mama alien went: “ECK! ECK! ECK!” Four little aliens came floating back. Continue song and count down to last alien. Mama alien went “ECK! ECK! ECK!” And the five little aliens came floating back.

SONG Did You Ever See a Llama? (Tune: Have you Ever See a Lassie?) Did you ever see a llama, a llama, a llama Did you ever see a llama, go this way and that? Go this way and that way, and that way and this way? Did you ever see a llama, go this way and that? Extra verses: Eat this thing and that If You’re an Alien (Tune: If You’re Happy and You Know It) If you're an alien and you know it wave your arms If you're an alien and you know it wave your arms. If you're an alien and you know then your arms will surely show it. If you're an alien and you know it wave your arms. Extra verses: Show your claws/Gnash your teeth/Stomp your tentacles/Growl out loud FLANNEL SONG There are no Bananas in the Sky (Tune: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzCCtC895GU) There are no bananas in the sky (in the sky) There are no bananas in the sky There’s the sun and the moon and a coconut cream pie! But there are no bananas in the sky Extra verses: You can replace bananas with any felt piece that you have handy that would be the silliest! SONG The Sun is in the Sky (Tune: The Farmer in the Dell) The sun is in the sky, the sun is in the sky. Hot and bright, it gives us light. The sun is in the sky. The moon is in the sky, the moon is in the sky. Around and 'round the earth it goes. The moon is in the sky. The stars are in the sky, the stars are in the sky. Twinkly bright, they shine at night. The stars are in the sky.

FLANNEL RHYME Four little stars, winking at me. One shot off, and then there were three! Three little stars with nothing to do. One shot off, and then there were two! Two little stars afraid of the sun. One shot off and then there was one! One little star, alone is no fun. It shot off and then there were none.

Five Little Aliens Are Sitting on the Stars Original Author Unknown

Five little aliens are sitting on the stars. The first one said, “Let’s go to Mars.” The second one said, “There are rockets in the air.” The third one said, “But we don’t care.” The fourth one said, “Let’s go up in the sky.” The fifth one said, “Let’s fly, fly, fly. Then swish went the ship into the night And the five little alien flew out of sight!

5 Green Aliens Finger Play Adapted by Jolanda Garcia, KidsSoup, Inc.

Five green aliens flew into space. (Move hand up in the air) The first one disappeared without a trace. (Hide thumb) The second one flew past the moon. (Hide finger) The third one waved "see you soon!" (Hide finger) The fourth one took off towards the sun. (Hide finger) And the fifth one looked around "Where is everyone? (Bring fist down to ground). Then WOOSH when the fuel and on came the light. (Wiggle fist and then stretch fingers). And the 5 green aliens went on another flight! (Move hand up in the air)

CRAFTS

Easy Paper Plate Alien – Kid Craft Tutorial February 21, 2014 by Stacey Gibbon

Paper Plate Alien Craft Supplies: * Large Paper Plate {one per alien craft} * Green Tissue Paper * Purple & White Cardstock * Craft Scissors * School Glue

Directions:

1. First tear/cut up your tissue paper into 2×2 inch squares.

2. Now cover your paper plate completely in school glue. Hand over the paper plate and tissue paper to your child, and ask them to completely cover the plate.

3. While they are decorating their plate – cut out the features of the alien’s face. This is where you can get really creative.

4. Once the paper plate is completely covered in tissue paper, glue on the facial features.

5. Set aside your finished Paper Plate Alien to let it dry completely before displaying proudly.

And that’s it! Like I said – super easy! If you don’t have green tissue paper, green construction paper will work too. Remember – you can always alter the supplies to make it work for you!

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Outer Space Crafts From Hand-Me-Down Ideas

Kindergarten was learning about Outer Space this month, I try to incorporate what they are learning in class to the projects we do for art.

For the first craft I wanted to do bubble wrap painting and decided to give it a try. I love letting the kids use different types of mediums in projects, so I added the paper tube painting, star stickers and an interactive space ship. It swings from the string to look like its flying in space across the planet.

First I started with plain white construction paper and traced a bowl for the planet. This is what the kids will bubble wrap and paper tube paint.

I then found a space ship online and printed it out, the kids can color it anyhow they would like. My local Walmart had the star stickers for $1 a package. Used kite string I had on hand and black construction paper. The tape is to tape the string to the colored and cut out space ship and the back of the black paper.

I was running low on TP rolls so I just cut some extras from wrapping paper rolls and other paper tubes I found. This way they could chose different sizes to use. I picked a few colored paints, and bubble wrap from packing supplies.

The kids painted a color in the middle of pre-cut bubble sheets, stamped them onto the traced circles. They had to paint and stamp a few times to cover the entire planet. Then they choose the tube they wanted and stamped that over the bubble paint, let dry a little while, then cut out their planets. Each kid put star stickers all over the black paper and then I attached the space ship with tape and kite string. They loved how the space ship moved across the page, lots of smiles and count downs when the project was finished.

For the planet with flying astronaut, I used 2 thin uncoated paper plates, 1 large foam plate, shaving cream, food coloring, pipe cleaner, an astronaut printable, popsicle stick, ribbon and lots and lots of paper towels!

First we covered the foam plate in shaving cream added a few dots of food color and then the kids swirled it around with a popsicle stick until the pattern looked nice.

Then the child placed the uncoated paper plate on top of the shaving cream, pushed down just a little. Then pull straight off it will be coated and a big mess. We did this twice so when the planet is hanging it has two colorful sides.

Next, and this part I did, you use the popsicle stick to scrap off the remaining shaving cream. The designs on the plates looked so bright and colorful.

The kids colored the astronaut I attached it to a pipe cleaner, and then between the 2 plates. Just add your string hand it up and enjoy! The kids loved these we added small pictures of their faces onto the helmets.

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