This week’s history sentence is about US astronauts walking on the moon. Check out this amazing astronaut craft that helps reinforce A’s to your little learners.
Materials
- 3 jumbo craft sticks
- Construction Paper: blue/gray, black, and yellow paper
- Glue
- Astronaut head printable (in printable section if your purchased my packet) or sketch by hand
Step 1: Prepare the parts
- Print out astronaut head from printable section, color and cut out
- Cut out boots from black paper and sun from yellow paper
Step 2: Arrange
- Arrange craft sticks in “A” shape and glue onto page. Have child repeat the sounds of A as he does this.
- Glue rest of parts onto astronaut.
- Place star stickers as desired.
*Tell me about U.S. Astronauts…
Check out more activities like this in my guide for cycle 3 for all 24 weeks.
Facts about Astronauts to share with your kids
- Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin were the first men to walk on the moon.
- Neil Armstrong got his piolet’s license before he got his driver’s license.
- Edwin Aldrin was also called “Buzz” Aldrin. He got this nickname from his older sister who mispronounced “brother” as “buzzer” and then it got shortened to “buzz.” Buzz actually became his legal name in 1988.
- This mission was called Apollo 11.
- It took 4 days to reach the moon.
- Mike Collins was also on this mission, but he stayed on the ship orbiting the moon. He took pictures and did experiments.
- Armstrong and Aldrin descended to the moon in the lunar module called the Eagle. They walked on the moon for 3 hours walking around, doing experiments, collecting moon rocks and dirt. They placed an American Flag on the moon’s surface.
- The United States had won the space race. We had the first man on the moon. It took 10 years from the start of the space race until we had a man on the moon.
Awesome Picture Books to go along with this craft
- Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11 by Brian Floca: Great picture book about the whole Apollo 11 mission
- Moonwalk: The First Trip to the Moon by Judy Donnelly: Great easy reader book about the first trip to the moon.
- The Moon Book by Gail Gibbons: Wonderful book about the moon in general, phases of the moon, eclipses. Bonus use this book again in cycle 2.