Many children are fascinated by space, especially boys. They imagine themselves as discoverers of distant galaxies, courageous and strong astronauts. Who are not afraid of weightlessness and unexplored distances. And the main thing is to support their fantasies and flight of thought. Parents can bring these games to life with models of spaceships, spacesuits, it’s all simple to make out of paper.
Do not underestimate paper crafts, and although it seems to us that a plastic rocket will be more reliable, bright will serve faithfully for many years. But in fact, the same rocket made with a baby in the company of parents or friends will mean much more to the child.
Crafts from paper are an easy way to keep your child busy with something interesting, distract him from the gadgets and screens that surround a modern person everywhere. In the form of the game, you can remember the colors of the shape of the numbers, the child will not even notice that you are studying with him.
Space paper figures aren’t just rockets and spacesuits. And also all kinds of aliens, and here you can fantasize endlessly. In such crafts, you can use a variety of colors and textures. It is very easy to make the character funny and interesting, let your child dream up, let him make the weirdo the way he wants. Even if he does not even turn out to be very beautiful the first time, but in this game, it is not beauty that is important, but the development of the child’s imagination, the ability to stand his ground, to make an independent choice without the help of parents.
Play and have fun, we have selected several options for paper crafts in the space theme.
Paper rocket
We will need
- Colored cardboard
- Colored paper
- Scissors
- Glue
Let’s get started
- First, let’s make the base, take the cardboard and roll it into a tube.
- Glue the cardboard to keep it in shape. The base is almost ready.
- For good streamlining and thermodynamics, we make our rocket a pointed nose. Roll a small piece of cardboard into a cone.
- Glue the spout to the base.
- Further, it remains only to decorate the rocket with the missing elements.
- The rocket is ready
Alien on a stick
For this craft we need
- Colored cardboard
- Sticks or tubes
- Decorative items (buttons, beads, ribbons)
- Scissors
- Glue
Let’s get started
- Making this craft is very simple and does not take much time. Cut out a shape for the base of the future alien. These can be ovals, circles, squares, triangles. Figures must be paired
- Next, take two identical figures. Place a tube in the middle of one, cover the second, and glue them together. The tube should be inside, between the two cardboard pieces.
- The base on a stick is ready, then we decorate to our taste.
- Done
alien 
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