It’s World Space Week – last year we had so much fun celebrating World Space week that we are doing it again and this time we’ve invited some amazing kid bloggers to join us celebrating with fun activities, crafts and ideas to share with your children.
We’ve been reading lots of books about Space and Aliens and J asked this morning to make some aliens – which I asked from what – I got a lot of suggestions but playdough was repeated over and over again – so I looked through our playdough box and found some tubs of blue and green that we had got from some parties and set them out with a selection of pom poms, googley eyes, cotton reels, pipecleaners and craft sticks and let J and T play.
Initally we started with fairly small Aliens as you can see from above but they got bigger and bigger as the morning went on. This open ended creation is fantastic for imagination – as J was creating he was describing what the alien would be like and do. T was making marks with the different bits in the playdough and playing with them moving them around the table and into the other room.
Our biggest Alien is above, apparently it creeps and crawls it’s got lots of eyes to see behind it and around and around as it spins. The Cotton reel makes it easier to hear as that it’s mouth with lots of spikey teeth on it.
J has got lots of other ideas that he wants to try – I will try and post them if not I will share some of them over on my facebook page this week.
This is a blog hop and cohosted by some amazing bloggers around the world please go by and check out their posts. If you have any space themed posts we would also love for you to link up below and join us celebrating the 51st World Space Week.
Rainy Day Mum, Nurturestore, Toddler Approved, Here Comes the Girls, 3 Dinosaurs, Mummy Mummy Mum,
Science Sparks, Living Montessori Now, One Perfect Day, K C Edventures
Please grab our button if you link up to let others know about the event and to come and share their activities as well.
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Love your space alien play dough monsters… looks like lots of fun for a rainy day
I love your play doh Cerys!
Emma @mummymummymum recently posted..Blast Off!
LOVE your alien playdough! How fun
What a wonderful alien. Why don’t you write down J story about him?
I love all of his eyes! What a wonderful creation!
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Love them!!
Cathy @ Nurturestore recently posted..Blast off! space game
Love your alien playdough and what great ideas on your hop
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I just love these aliens, we made monster play dough (with goggly eyes) a little while ago which was so much fun. I think we need to get the book Q Pootle out from the library as I think this definitely lead onto to some alien play dough creations. Thanks for sharing. (also loved your Mr Men and feeling post) Ellie
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Your materials made perfect aliens! Love them.
Thanks for sharing at the Sunday Showcase.
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