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Includes Space Art activity, Classroom Cloak activity, wordsearch.
Downloaded from: https://www.stardome.org.nz/education-resources/library/ (Matariki Kete for Primary)

Resources

For Space Art:
- Art supplies – chalk pastels, paint, or crayons
- 1 x piece of black construction card per student
- White paint and paintbrushes (optional)
- Images of nebula or galaxy as inspiration (attached)
- Access to computers or other technology (optional)

Instructions

Using either your imagination or real deep space images as inspiration (we suggest googling images like the Helix Nebula, Pinwheel Galaxy or the Butterfly Nebula), play with your art supplies to recreate a galaxy or nebula on your card. We found the best way to do this is with chalk pastels because they smudge easily and blend to mimic the colours we see in deep space images.
2. Either smudge white chalk pastel dots or tap the end of a small paintbrush dipped in white paint across your image to create star speckles.
(Optional):
3. Have your teacher scan or take a photo of your artwork and upload the image onto a computer or tablet.
4. Open the image in any application which allows you to add text over the top of an image. Think about what Matariki, space, science or stars mean to you. Come up with a quote, a poem or a fact about any of these ideas.
5. Add your text and position it over the top of your space artwork. Play with design techniques you (or your teacher) knows, such as font type, size and colour, to enhance your artwork.
6. Print out your finalised digital artwork and display it.

Tags

• art
• galaxies
• matariki
• space
• stardome

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