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Description

Help your favourite teddy turn into an astronaut and get ready for their space adventure.

Resources

You’ll need:
• Scissors
• Glue sticks
• Sticky tape
• Tin foil
• Small cardboard tissue boxes (tissue boxes work well)
• Toilet roll or kitchen roll cardboard tubes
• Craft materials to decorate (such as stickers, pipe cleaners, plastic bottle tops or scrap paper)

Instructions

Gather everyone together in a circle and explain that you’re going to make space helmets for your teddies to go on their own adventure.

Ask everyone why they think astronauts need space helmets and space suits.
*Space helmets and space suits help astronauts in many ways. They protect astronauts from getting too hot or cold. They also give astronauts oxygen to breathe while they’re working in space.*

Pick up your teddy and find a box which will fit on the top of their head.

Everyone should take time to find the right sized box for their teddy. If a box is too big, people could carefully, with an adult’s help, use scissors to cut their box and tape it back into a helmet shape.

Next, young people should cover their cardboard box in tin foil. You should be able to scrunch it up and fold it over the sides of the box to keep it in place. You can also stick it in place with a glue stick or sticky tape.

After the tinfoil has been added, everyone should decorate their teddy’s helmet. They could add stickers, colour the tinfoil with felt tips, write their teddy’s name, add plastic bottle top buttons or use some pipe cleaners for antennae. The young people can be really creative!

Finally, put the helmets onto the teddies, so that they’re ready for their space adventure.

You could ask those who are happy to introduce their astronauts and show off their helmets. You could have a fashion show to show off the helmets, set up a space obstacle course for the teddies to complete, or have a space relay race with the teddies.

Tags

• astronauts
• creative
• imagination
• Junk Modeling
• recycling craft
• space
• teddy bear

Badge Links

• Space - International Space Station
• Space Explorer - Astronauts