Blue Moon Craft for Kindergarten
The moon is often the focus of many baby rooms and craft projects for kids. In kindergarten, students are just start learning about science and nature, including how the earth interacts with its moon. When creating blue moon crafts, your kids focus energy on a decorative item and learn about the different phases of the moon at the same time. In other projects, kids learn how to paint an object and cut different shapes from materials such as Styrofoam and felt.
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Phases of the Moon
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With a collection of paper plates, set out newspaper and blue paints at the table. Instruct kids on how to cut the shapes of the moon from the paper plates, including crescent, half, gibbous and full. With a paintbrush, paint the paper plates with a light blue color. Create dark spots on the moons to create craters. Explain the phases of the moon as you create each phase, showing how the moon starts as a crescent, then changes into half, gibbous and full. Show how the moon's phase is reflective, as the full moon then changes to gibbous, half and crescent. Decorate the moons with glitter and puff paints, then hang around the classroom.
Earth and Moon Model
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Pick out two Styrofoam balls, one smaller than the other. Create paper mache strips from newspaper and flour paste. On a flat surface, cover both Styrofoam balls in paper mache strips. Let the paper mache dry, then paint the larger ball as the planet earth, looking at a globe to figure out the size and dimension of continents. Once finished with the earth model, paint the moon in a light blue to gray color, looking at an image to paint the craters in a darker color. Attach the blue moon with a toothpick or stake on top of the earth model. If you want, create the phases of the moon with more Styrofoam balls.
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Moon and Stars Mobile
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Gather felt beads and pieces of felt in yellow, black, light blue, white and green. Cut shapes of stars from the yellow felt and crescent moons from the light blue. From the white pieces of felt, cut shapes of rocket ships, and from the green pieces, cut out a flying saucer. From the scraps of felt, cut out trim, windows and lights to glue onto the rocket ship and spaceship. Look at cartoon pictures of the ships to see different designs. Cut a long piece of blue knitting yarn and make a knot one end. Stitch the long yarn through the middle of each shape with a darning needle. Pull through and add a felt bead in between the shape, leaving space in between the felt shape, bead and then the next felt shape. At the top of the strand, leave a lot of yarn to tie up the mobile later. Mix up your shapes and beads on each strand, creating a mixture of stars and moons or stars and spaceships. Create four to six strands of shapes and beads. Use a medium plate to mark a circle on piece of cardboard. Cut out the shape from the cardboard. Punch four to six holes spaced evenly around the edge of the circle to hang the strands from. Paint the cardboard entirely with one color and cover in glitter. Once dry, thread the yarn through the hole for each strand. Pull each top of the yarn strands together once you thread through and tie a knot that holds all of the strands. Hang the mobile by the top knot by your classroom's window.
Step Stool
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Purchase a cheap step stool or build one from wood. Encourage kids to paint the stepping stools in a light blue color. On the first step of the stool, paint a smiling moon starting with a circle of white paint and adding in the mouth and eyes with black paint. Add stars to the left and right of the moon in various sizes with a yellow paint. On the top stair, paint a sleeping moon with stars to the left and right. Allow kids to bring the stepping stools home to place in front of the bathroom or kitchen sink.
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