Greetings to all readers and guests of the blog. Today I again invite you to turn on your creativity and do some handicrafts. After all, a very interesting and exciting holiday is coming up - Cosmonautics Day. This means that children's institutions are already preparing in full for this event.
And of course they give tasks for joint creativity, as they organize annual competitions on space topics. Therefore, I have prepared a special issue for you!! We will make neither flowers nor , but rockets, planets, flying saucers and much more.
I’ll immediately make a reservation that I take all the ideas for my work from the open access of the Internet. But I select from them the most creative, cool and accessible in terms of material, as well as for different ages. So read to the end, it will be interesting!!
Of course, for all times, applique is always in demand, and it can be made not only from paper and cardboard, but also from fabric and cereals.
It would be cool to do some modeling and make three-dimensional planets like this. Moreover, to create them you can use balls of different diameters and from different materials, and then just color them. Or mold it from plasticine or salt dough.
Looks cool too voluminous postcards made of paper, corrugated or fabric.
You can make such a symbolic picture. Take a black background, glue a blue ball and decorate the remaining elements with rhinestones.
Here is another great option made from salt dough. It looks very beautiful and bright.
But look what you can make from felt. And we do without sewing!!
How do you like these funny space weirdos that come in a regular box, sealed with a blue background and decorated with stars?
A cool option made from various available materials.
Paper three-dimensional postcard in the style of a baby book.
How do you like this flying saucer made of disk and beads?! Looks very impressive, doesn't it??
Everything here is sculpted from plasticine; by the way, you can do this as a team effort.
You can, in principle, not bother, just take it and draw it, and then put it in a frame and you’re done!!
And if, on the contrary, you want to surprise everyone and have time, then make souvenirs from pasta. We looked at this technique when we did it.
As you can see, there is always a choice, the main thing is not to be lazy!!
Space crafts from colored paper and cardboard for kindergarten
And now I want to invite you to make a very simple flying saucer. We will make it from ordinary paper plates; if there are none, you can use plastic or cardboard.
You will need: two paper plates, pencils, markers, paints, glue, brush.
Work process:
1. Take plates and paint them any color. You can immediately take colored plates.
2. After the paint has dried, draw patterns on them with a pencil.
3. Color them with a marker or paints.
4. Then glue them together. Complete the composition with an alien made of plasticine.
You see how easy and fast everything is, and the main thing is that kids can do this kind of work.
And I also selected a couple of options from my favorite materials for creativity (paper and cardboard). Look, choose and show your children, let them make them.
A simple astronaut made from cones!
This work can be done not only from cardboard, but also from felt. And I really like the idea with photographs.
Naturally, do not forget about the applique, prepare templates, cut and glue.
You can also use the origami technique.
Here the option is more complicated, as it requires fine work and knowledge of quilling techniques.
Making souvenirs from felt
And now we’ll sew a green alien. Many people will definitely like this craft.
You will need: green, blue and black felt, sewing threads green, black and white, gold beads No. 10, foam rubber or cotton wool, sewing needle, marker, glue.
Work process:
1. Prepare the templates first and then transfer them onto the fabric.
2. Then following step by step instructions Sew the weirdo below.
Let's see what else you can create from this wonderful material called felt:
The easiest thing to do is cut out the silhouettes, then glue them onto the background.
For older children, and for those who sew well, voluminous crafts will, of course, be advantageous:
The last work will, of course, require the help of adults.
What crafts can you make on the theme of space for school?
Now let's see what we can offer older guys. You can choose the options that we discussed above, or you can think about it and choose from the following.
The image of space is always relevant. Take an empty box, make a background of paints, and glue paper stars. Make planets and hang them on strings.
Excellent teamwork. Make rockets using the origami technique and glue them on.
Cool version of salt dough!!
And look at the cool use of egg molds!!
What do you think of the idea of using a light bulb?!
Well, everything is simple here, schoolchildren can easily cope with such a postcard.
Using a plastic bottle and plasticine.
Here is a whole cosmic composition, a great idea for creativity.
And here are the plasticine masterpieces:
Crafts for Cosmonautics Day from bottles
Cool and original products for April 12 can be made from ordinary plastic bottles, just look at these souvenirs:
Alternatively, you can use not the whole bottle, but only the neck, and add a Kinder Surprise egg.
And I suggest you watch a video story from which you will learn how to easily and beautifully make a space satellite.
Master class on making a rocket from waste material
A popular craft for this holiday is a rocket. Well, let's see how we can make it too. I found good instructions on the Maam.ru website. I thought this option was cool, since everything is made from simple materials and anyone can do it.
You will need: toilet sleeve, colored cardboard or paper, scissors, glue, pencil.
Work process:
1. Cut out a large circle from thick paper or cardboard. Cut out a small triangle from it.
2. Roll into a cone and glue with glue. Then make small cuts around the entire circumference.
3. Glue onto the sleeve.
4. Cut out small circles and glue them too, imitating a porthole.
5. Make cuts on both sides of the sleeve.
7. Insert this strip into the prepared slots. The rocket is ready to fly!!
This is how easy and quick a souvenir is to make. Did you like it?!!
Craft ideas for the competition for April 12, 2019 (from plasticine and salt dough)
Children's favorite material for creativity has always been and remains plasticine, modeling mass or salt dough. After all, there is a great flight of imagination here and you can create whatever you want!!
- Favorite cartoon characters - dog astronauts))
- Alien in outer space
- Flight of fancy in the open sky
- How do you like such a real astronaut?!
- Various colored aliens
- Planet Conqueror
- Interesting suspension option
- Plasticine masterpieces
Video on how to make a flying saucer from a disk
I found another cool video, and it’s hosted by a child. So be sure to show it to your kids and let them make a cool craft for Cosmonautics Day themselves.
And a few more pictures for your creativity:
Templates on the theme of space for children in kindergarten and school
And in conclusion, I offer different templates for any type of crafts, and for applique, for postcards, for sewing and drawing, or plasticine creativity.
I won’t describe it, since everything is obvious. Your task is to save and print.
Our exciting space journey has come to an end!! Make your choice, participate in competitions and win, and just create for your own pleasure!!
Crafts for Cosmonautics Day do not have to be made from “space” materials. Everything that can be found in the house will be used: old boxes, ribbons, plasticine, desire.
Cardboard, pencil, plasticine.
All planets in order
Any of us can name:
Once - Mercury,
Two - Venus,
Three - Earth,
Four - Mars
Five - Jupiter
Six - Saturn
Seven - Uranus,
Behind him is Neptune
For each planet, different colors of plasticine were mixed:
Mercury - yellow and black
Venus – yellow and white
Earth - white, blue and green
Mars - red and black
Jupiter - red, yellow and white
Saturn - red, yellow and white
Uranus - white and blue
Neptune - white and blue
Signatures were made with the help of an adult. Because a circle is organized in the garden English language for preschoolers, the names of the planets are also duplicated in English.
IN MADO kindergarten No. 9 in Ishim, Tyumen region children, under the guidance of teacher Natalya Arnoldovna Igisheva, created mini-copies of space airfields.
This is how the children of the senior group, teachers Elena Nikolaevna Okhotnikova and Marina Aleksandrovna Dolzhenko, saw Baikonur.
These are the crafts we made for Cosmonautics Day children from MBDOU “Kindergarten “Smile””, Zima, Irkutsk region. Teacher - Polyakova Tatyana Georgievna.
Application "Space".
Application “Mysterious Space”.
Application from plasticine “Amazing Space”.
Drawing with wax pencils.
Alien friends.
Alien "Three-Eyes".
Alien Bug-Eyes and Horned.
This work was carried out by Rostislav Andreikin under the guidance of teacher Natalya Yuryevna Udovina, MBDOU DSKV No. 2 “Kalinka”, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug-Yugra, Nizhnevartovsk.
Children from the group “Guselki” MKDOU No. 159, Kirov, made a collective craft, under the guidance of teachers: Irina Nikolaevna Maltseva and Ekaterina Mikhailovna Novokreshchenova.
Crafts for Cosmonautics Day are made not only by children, but also by teachers. I made this drawing Dmitrieva Yana Mikhailovna, teacher, kindergarten No. 102, Taganrog.
The guys from MADOU "CRR - kindergarten No. 10 "Solnyshko"" under the leadership of Rashida Saifitdinovna Aitkulova and Guzel Rinatovna Kaekberdina, they made an entire space station.
The article contains photos of crafts sent to the “Let's Go” competition.
NOTE: Demonstration material for low prices in the specialized store “Kindergarten” - detsad-shop.ru.
A selection of didactic and visual aids for Cosmonautics Day in kindergarten. Will come in handy preschool teacher! Excellent quality and inexpensive prices. Specialized store for kindergartens.
The collective work of coloring “Rocket” was carried out by children of senior group No. 11 “Polyanka” MDOU General developmental kindergarten No. 62 “Scarlet Flower” Kotlas, Arkhangelsk region. Teacher Petrushina Alexandra Anatolyevna
Materials for work: Coloring book “Rocket” on 18 sheets, watercolor colored pencils, wax crayons, glue.
Craft for Cosmonautics Day “Rocket” made by Sharin Timofey senior group No. 11 "Polyanka" MDOU General developmental kindergarten No. 62 "The Scarlet Flower" Kotlas, Arkhangelsk region. I prepared the craft together with my dad. The craft can be used to decorate the “Space” layout and as a material for inflating exercises to develop the power of exhalation. Teacher Petrushina Alexandra Anatolyevna.
Teamwork of children preparatory group Mikhailovsky kindergarten 2. Teacher Berezhnyak Irina Nikolaevna with children Lyakh Taya, Rachenkova Valeria, Chepurnov Artem, Rakhmetov Aslan, Poltavskaya Augusta. The work is called “Fast rockets are waiting for us...”
Participant - Bulatov Sasha.
Age - 5 years.
Title of the work: “We are living the dream of space!”
Collective work of group No. 1. 3 years. Protvino, Moscow region. MBDOU "Kindergarten 4 "Fairy Tale". Teacher: Varvaritsa Yulia Alekseevna.
Stepanov Ilya 6 years old
Bonev Semyon 6 years old
Vlasova Valeria 6 years old
Janus Timofey 6 years old
Zhukova Karina 5 years
Moryakov Saveliy 6 years old
Petrova Alena 6 years old
Gulin Danya 5 years
“On a rocket into space” Kozhevnikov Seraphim, 5 years old. MBDOU "Kindergarten No. 2" city of Okhansk, Perm region. Teacher Kalinina Nadezhda Vladimirovna.
Korotenko Karina Evgenievna, 7 years old. MBDOU d/s No. 36 Mesyagutovo village municipal district Duvansky district of the Republic of Bashkortostan. Model of "Planets of the Solar System". Head: Ishmukhametova Liana Ildusovna, teacher of MBDOU d/s No. 36 in the village of Mesyagutovo, municipal district Duvansky district of the Republic of Bashkortostan
Works of children of kindergarten No. 36. Supervisors: Borisova-Pugacheva O.V., Semenova S.S.
Dmitrieva Elizaveta – 6.5 years old
Charkova Sofia - 6 years old
Ivanova Sofia - 7 years old
Velieva Albina - 6.5 years old
Gorodetskaya Daria - 6.5 years
Tiganova Anastasia – 6.5 years
Good afternoon dear friends, very soon the whole country will celebrate a magnificent holiday dedicated to the day astronautics. This topic fascinates and intrigues not only adults, but also children.
There is a reason to make a small craft with your child for Cosmonautics Day with your own hands. Below is a list of what can be done and how to do it. Small crafts that will not be difficult to assemble from improvised materials that can be found at home. There are various ideas for crafts, both simpler and more complex. I tried to collect the most original crafts for almost any age. So you will have plenty to choose from.
Of course, the main idea for crafts is a rocket and everything connected with it. It was on our rocket, assembled in our country, that Yuri Gagarin made his first flight into outer space. The flight took place on April 12, 1961. Since then, humanity has made great strides in the development of the space industry. But it all started with small models assembled at home. So we will join you in the general topic. Next, we will try to properly prepare for Victory Day on May 9th. By this date, another article will be published about what crafts can be made for this great holiday.
So let's start with the simplest thing that can be done simply and quickly without much effort.
You will need thick cardboard or a sleeve from toilet paper or paper towels. Colored paper, scissors and glue.
In order for your rocket to stand confidently on the table, we will attach a small stand to it. The stand will also act as motors.
If desired, you can make a larger rocket. For this you will need more cardboard, but the best building material for home rockets are, of course, cardboard boxes.
You can also assemble a 3-D drawing from such rockets.
Or build a big rocket like this using it as a building material plastic bottles. Cut several pieces and put them together.
Well, if you spend a little more time on assembly. Then you can collect such beauty. Almost a real model.
Also, together with the rocket, try to build a flying saucer with aliens. Plastic or cardboard plates are great for construction.
An excellent material for flying saucers could be your old CDs or DVDs.
It’s not difficult to make the aliens themselves from disks and caps from Kindersurprises. Glue the cap to the disk and insert skewers with beads as legs.
And for making alien tentacles, ordinary paper clips are perfect.
Of course, every flying saucer has a cabin, we’ll make it out of plastic cup placing the pilot in the cockpit. Let's make a plate out of two disposable plates gluing them together.
Well, of course, where would we be without good old plasticine. I think we all turned out masterpieces from it.
As you can see, the simplest and most ordinary things can be used as building materials. But what beautiful crafts they make, and I think that not only you and your child will like them.
And if you want to do something on a larger scale, look at what you can do with a little imagination.
For Cosmonautics Day, you can build not only a rocket or a saucer, you can make an entire planet. Here is an example of how to create a Jupiter from papier-mache.
Or create an entire universe out of plasticine. By the way, you can collect several new planets and name them in honor of mom or dad.
Craft ideas for kindergarten
Now let's take a closer look at a few crafts for children younger age, namely about preschool children from kindergarten. Here you can build both rockets and beautiful pictures using the application.
The simplest and most inexpensive thing is to sculpt Martians from plasticine.
You can also split the group into several creative cells.
Next is the rocket appliqué. You will need several sheets of colored paper, scissors and glue. 
To assemble a flying saucer, take two plastic or paper plates and glue them together with the convex side out. Color them in any shape you like. Here, of course, every child can show their imagination.
Next, we’ll make a passenger from plasticine. And we place it in a cabin made of a plastic cup. Which we attach with glue.
Now we’ll make a rocket where you can make a child as an astronaut. You will need colored paper or felt.
We glue the blanks onto a sheet of cardboard to make a rocket, and paste a photo of the child into the porthole. This is how beautiful it turns out. 
You can even make a group flight into space.
But this rocket was made using the quilling technique. This is when objects are assembled from strips of paper twisted into a spiral.
You can also print out the outlines of the rockets and give them to the children so they can color them as they wish.
The result of all the crafts is, of course, an exhibition of works. 
Here is an example of newspaper walls made from rockets that the kids made in kindergarten.
The simplest crafts made from paper and cardboard
Well, of course, the simplest thing you can come up with is to take an ordinary coloring book and make an excellent picture out of it using felt-tip pens or paints. 
And using colored paper and colored cardboard you can assemble your own universe.
Making beautiful crafts for school
For school, of course, you need something more complicated. Therefore, for Cosmonautics Day, this time we will build not a rocket, not a plate, but an alien made of foil.
You can also make a homemade earth satellite for school using improvised materials. How to do this, watch a video that describes the assembly process in detail.
There is a great idea for a composition on space theme. To do this, take a small cardboard box and prepare it by painting it with a suitable background.
Cut out the stars from tar paper and paste them on.
Let's find something semicircular and wrap it in foil. This will be a small space flying object.
Next, using plasticine, we will attach improvised antennas and solar panels to it.
Let's build a rocket out of cardboard and colored paper. We will make 1-2 astronauts from foil.
And then we place all the made objects on our cosmic surface.
Or you can mold astronauts from the Barboskins series entirely out of plasticine.
But these characters can be made from cardboard and ordinary tin cans.
Make a space applique and decorate it with a beautiful macaroni frame.
Try making planets from plasticine by placing them on a beautiful stand.
Or this picture might come out of the same plasticine.
Cool works from the land of masters
I suggest looking at pictures on crafts for Cosmonautics Day. Pictures taken from the website Country of Masters. Perhaps they will encourage you to create something similar.
First, let's look at what can be made on this topic. For younger kids, it will be possible to make (with the help of their parents) such a layout from colored paper. All the planets of our Solar System are located on it. At the same time, of course, we teach the kids the names of the planets.
Application Solar System
You can make such applications from small plasticine balls. It’s better to draw such compositions first and even paint them with flowers. And then you can roll small balls and just stick them on.
After all, it’s really possible to submit it for a competition?
Squirrel in a rocket
We make figures of astronauts and a lunar rover from salt dough. Simple . This material is pleasant to work with for several reasons:
- it hardens quickly and can even be placed in the oven;
- it can then be easily painted in different colors with acrylic paints or gouache;
- environmentally friendly, you can even swallow it))).
Russian cosmonauts and lunar rover
Children 4-5 years old can make simple paper rockets. This turns out to be a simple form of origami. And you can glue them onto a dark blue background, which will represent outer space.
Rockets in the universe
Let's make these funny aliens from toys, jars, tubes and plasticine.
Funny aliens
Another option for the competition using the modular origami technique.
We turn on our imagination and use everything: polystyrene foam, tree branches, foil, wire. Bushings will even be useful for making rockets.
Gagarin in flight
Plasticine composition with Saturn, stars, rocket and our green planet.
Milky Way
And a little humor)
Cat in a hat from the planets of our solar system
I hope that we have already more or less chosen something for ourselves, that we will make it and move on.
Simple crafts for kids in kindergarten on Cosmonautics Day
I suggest making a rocket with the kids from a sleeve (you can even use toilet paper) and colored paper. It turns out such a long and stable little thing that can be placed on a blue background and next to an astronaut figurine.
Add some foil and you'll have a more realistic spacecraft.
Let's make a starship out of paper. You can do this simply according to the diagram below.
And here is the finished version. Color it as you wish.
Or we’ll make an unidentified flying machine out of thick paper. You can make several of these things and put them again on the blue sky.
Look how colorful and at the same time original UFOs we produce.
Let's use the baby's favorite toy - plasticine. It is pliable, soft and adheres well to almost any surface.
Here are some applications you can make with it in disposable plates.
Saucers - open space
Oh, and we parted ways! Let's sculpt a cute alien. It will look good next to a paper flying saucer.
Funny alien
Don't feel like folding paper? So let's blind her too, because there is a lot of plasticine!
When working with plasticine, the first thing you need to do is explain to children that this is an inedible material and should not be put into their mouth.
Alien and flying saucer made of plasticine
Space idea made of paper and cardboard for April 12
Components such as paper and cardboard are the easiest to make for kindergarten and school work. Because they are always present in any home. And also scissors and glue. If all this is available, then I propose to build such a composition from a flying spaceship, sun and saturn on a black background.
To work you need:
- Cardboard with a black background about 30*25 cm;
- Toilet paper roll;
- Colored paper;
- Gold and silver foil;
- Semolina;
- Scissors;
- PVA glue;
- Pencil.
Manufacturing:
1. Cut the sleeve in half. At one end we cut off the edges to create the nose of the rocket.
2. From blue paper, cut out three blue cones, which we bend in the middle. These will be our rocket engines. We glue them to the uncut (back) part of the sleeve.
3. Glue the rocket onto a black background.
4. Cut out two petals from red and gold paper. This will be fire coming out from behind the ship.
5. Glue the flame and the cut out window.
6.Draw the sun on gold foil, and Saturn with a ring on silver foil. Cut out and glue both shapes onto black cardboard.
7. Apply glue to the background and sprinkle semolina on top. This is ours Milky Way. Beautiful craft ready!
Did you like the collage? If you have schoolchildren, you can make a flying luminous object below.
Video about how to make a flying saucer from a plastic bottle
How to make it - watch a short video. I’m sure the kids will enjoy the process itself, and then they will play UFO with enthusiasm. After all, this is not just a craft, but with special lighting effects!
How to make crafts from disks on a space theme?
CDs are already being thrown into the trash, but in vain. After all, this waste material Very suitable for souvenirs for Cosmonautics Day. Its shiny and round flat surface is very suitable for the production of unidentified flying objects.
Here is a second grader's masterpiece. She used the disk under a flying saucer with a very cute alien.
And this is the alien himself with antennas made of springs and foil.
Interplanetary taxi from the children from the preparatory group in kindergarten.
The cutest plate made of rhinestones and fluffy antennas.
ABOUT! And here is a whole group of funny humanoids with their own transport.)
And one more idea on how to use CDs.
Step-by-step 3D postcard in the form of a rocket
If you have never created three-dimensional postcards, here is a step-by-step method for you. Again, everything is as simple as two and two. Templates can be found at the end of my post.
We need:
- A blank sheet of paper A4;
- The pencil is simple;
- Scissors;
- Colored paper;
- Glue;
- Gouache paints.
Manufacturing:
1. Fold the A4 sheet in half. On the fold we draw half a rocket.
2. Part of the rocket in the photo below is marked with a dotted line. This means that we will not cut here. And we cut out all the straight lines using scissors.
3. We try to do everything as carefully as possible.
4. We turn our spaceship inside. It will fold inward and the entire card will fold outward.
5. Draw the details of the ship: nozzles, porthole, nose and flame below.
6. Paint the background black with gouache. And the rocket itself in suitable colors.
Here you can get creative and make an astronaut’s face in the porthole window.
7. Draw beautiful flames.
8. Cut out different planets from colored paper. We glue them all over the background. You can also make stars from foil.
Voila! Our cool three-dimensional card is ready. We give it away for its intended purpose.
Making original works for a school competition
Let's be inspired by the ideas of the kids who won space-themed craft competitions. They all tried, working out every detail in their masterpieces.
Any available materials were used in the work. These are twine, foam balls as planets, glass pebbles, felt and much more.
International station
Composition of planet Earth, a rocket and two astronauts in outer space.
Russian cosmonauts
Solar System with satellite and planets.
And here is a magnificent model made from plastic bottles.
We use felt for voluminous applique.
Intergalactic travelers.
Beautiful applique made from napkin balls.
To make it, you need to roll out many, many balls of colored paper napkins. But the work seems to be worth it!
The squirrel and the salt dough arrow are waving their paws at you).
A little imagination on the theme of the galaxy, starships and UFOs - and a wonderful work is ready for the competition!
Pictures and templates on the theme of space
I suggest using cute templates and drawings as backgrounds and pictures. They will fit perfectly when creating postcards or crafts on the theme of astronautics.
On this note, I say goodbye to you for a moment. I wish you success in your creativity and pleasant moments spent with the guys!
April 12 Our entire country celebrates the wonderful holiday "Cosmonautics Day". My children and I also carefully prepared for this national holiday. We conducted an educational integrated lesson “Cosmonautics Day”, at which we conducted research activities“What is the solar system?”, “What is the gravity of the earth?”. We conducted a lesson on the artistic activity “Flight to space”.
Target: formation of older children preschool age ideas about outer space, solar system and its planets, human space exploration.
Tasks:
1. Continue to expand children’s understanding of the diversity of space. Tell children about interesting facts and space events.
2. Introduce the first cosmonaut Yu.A. Gagarin.
3. Develop creative imagination, fantasy, and the ability to improvise; to cultivate mutual assistance, a friendly attitude towards each other, pride in the people of this profession, in their homeland;
4. Involve parents in joint activities.
Progress of the lesson:
Since ancient times, people have looked at the sky and thought about how to rise above the clouds and find out what is there. It took a long, long time before people learned to build aircraft. And the first to fly into them were not people, but animals: rats, and then dogs. Their names are Belka and Strelka. And only after other dogs had successfully flown into space did the first man go there.
Many years ago, it was on this day that cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin flew into space.
We conducted a number of activities, conversations, games related to space and in conclusion we made a collective craft “A rocket flies into space.”
1. First we drew space and a rocket on a sheet of paper.
2. Then the children colored the space suits (I found space suit blanks in coloring books for children, downloaded them, and printed them out).
