Your session goals
Teamwork 20%
Artist 33%
Space 28%
Space 32%
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Session summary
Have a go at making your own telescope, playing some space themed games and eating some astronaut pudding.
Safety message
For a space camp, some areas to consider include:
- First aid kits
- Food hygiene and safety
- Active games, including wide games
- Motion picture licensing for films and TV shows
Activities
Telescopic creations
30 mins
Use simple materials to make a telescope then look into the sky and discover the stars.
- Meets
- Requirement 3
Make astronaut pudding
45 mins
Cook up something out of this world that an astronaut might enjoy, as we look at life on the ISS.
Play Comet's Coming
30 mins
Blast off and try our Space-themed game of Captain’s Coming
Cool crafty constellations
30 mins
Learn about the night sky and see which constellations you can make.
Satellite insight
45 mins
Discover more about satellites and how useful they are as we try to create our own orbital objects.
- Meets
- Requirement 3
Preparation
Equipment
- Tables
- Chairs
- Pens or pencils
- Rulers
- Something to protect surfaces (for example, newspaper or tablecloths)
- Craft materials (for example, tissue paper, pipe cleaners, stickers)
- Scissors
- PVA glue
- Cardboard tubes
- Paint brushes
- 1cm wide concave lenses
- 1.5cm wide convex lenses
- Craft knives
- Sheets of cardboard
- Black electrical tape
- Black paint
- Device with access to the internet
- Ingredients and equipment (see recipe card)
- Hoop, chalk, paper signs or masking tape to mark base (optional)
- Glue sticks
- Star shaped stickers
- Letter stickers
- Glitter
- Black card
- Metallic pens
- Pencils
- A4 paper
- Satellite-making materials (like recycled plastic bottles, cardboard, paper, boxes, tubes, packets and scraps of material)
Resources
Recipe card (Astronaut pudding)
PDF - 124.7KBSatellite examples and features
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