We have print-ready PDF files of Space Place's popular hands-on activities. Print these out and you no longer need to be connected to a computer to have a fun, educational experience. Perfect for the classroom, after school, and camps.
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Sun
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Make sunspot cookies! Real sunspots aren’t made of chocolate, but on these sunspot cookies they are!
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Make a pastel aurora! In this activity, you can make your own colorful aurora with oil pastels.
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Make handprint art using ultraviolet light! In this activity, see for yourself how sunscreen can be used to block the sun’s ultraviolet light rays.
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Make sun paper! Make this marbled paper that looks just like our sun.
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Make colorful star cookies! Make these yummy star cookies with genuine star-colored centers you can see through.
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Earth
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Color an Earth coloring page! Learn more about Earth with this NASA coloring page.
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Make a Stained Glass Earth! You get to create your own full view of our planet as if it were seen from space—something that was not achieved until the 20th century.
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Make an Earth mask! Learn more about Earth with our planet mask activity.
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Make a pastel aurora! In this activity, you can make your own colorful aurora with oil pastels.
Download Pastel Aurora Activity PDF
View Pastel Aurora Activity
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Make an Earth fan! To remember that Earth is much more than just the surface we see every day, make this Earth layer fan.
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Build your own birdseed wreath! Birds will love this simple bird feeder!
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Make a cloud mobile! This mobile of beautiful, feather-weight clouds is balanced so that any gentle breeze sends them turning and twisting. Some are rain clouds, dropping sparkling showers below.
But it's not just a pretty work of art. The shapes represent certain types of clouds.
Download Cloud Mobile Activity PDF
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Whip up some El Niño pudding! You have probably heard people blame "El Niño" for everything from bad weather to lost homework. Now we are going to "blame El Niño" for inspiring a delicious and colorful dessert!
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Get your gummy greenhouse gases! Got gumdrops? Then you can build models of molecules. Molecules are tiny structures that make up just about all matter—including you! Molecules themselves are made of atoms, the basic building blocks of matter.
Using just four kinds of atoms as building blocks, you can construct many different types of molecules. In this project, you will build models of some gas molecules. These kinds of gas molecules are part of the air. They are called greenhouse gases.
Download Gummy Greenhouse Gases Activity PDF
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Make Oreo Moon phases! Open up some Oreo cookies and scrape off the creme filling to make the four major phases of the Moon
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"See" inside a closed box! Suppose someone shows you a box and says it contains a mysterious object. Figure out what's in the box without looking or touching and the object is yours!
The box has no lid, but is covered by a piece of paper so you can't see inside. You are allowed to poke small holes in the paper with a sharp, straight stick of some kind, like a knitting needle, but you can't peek inside. How would you discover what's in the box?.
Download Topographical Map Activity PDF
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Make a topographic map! Build your own mountain and make a topo map of it!
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Solar System
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Color these NASA Coloring Pages! Learn more about the planets in our solar system with these NASA coloring pages.
Find and print a planet coloring page PDF here.
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Make planet masks! Learn more about the planets in our solar system with our planet mask activity.
Find and print a planet mask activity PDF here.
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Make a comet on a stick! A comet is a chunk of ice, rock, and gas flying through space. When they get close to the sun, they heat up. We can see their glow and long tails. In this activity, you’ll make your own comet that can fly around the room!
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Make asteroids you can eat! Create your own odd-shaped asteroids out of plain old mashed potatoes. Bake them in the oven to turn them (more or less) asteroid color. Then eat your asteroids for dinner!
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Make Moon cookies! No baking required!
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Build a Moon habitat! Pretend you are an astronaut working with your teammates on the Moon to build your new lunar home.
Download Moon Habitat Activity PDF
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Make Oreo Moon phases! Open up some Oreo cookies and scrape off the creme filling to make the four major phases of the Moon
Download Oreo Moon Phases Activity PDF
View Oreo Moon Phases Activity
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Make a CD Saturn! You can make a lovely model of Saturn and her rings. You can hang your model Saturn from the ceiling and watch it gracefully turn with the air currents. Or your Saturn will make a beautiful holiday decoration.
Download CD Saturn Activity PDF
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Universe
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Make universe slime! Did you know that our universe is stretching out in all directions? Make your own stretchy universe slime.
Download Universe Slime Activity PDF
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Make a pinwheel galaxy pinwheel! The Pinwheel Galaxy is a spiral-shaped galaxy about 21 million light years away from Earth. Scientists call this swirling galaxy M101. You can find it in the constellation Ursa Major, or the "Big Dipper," in the Northern Hemisphere. With a nice, dark sky, you can see it with binoculars or a small telescope. For those of us who can't see it in the night sky, we can have the next best thing: a Pinwheel Galaxy pinwheel!
Download Pinwheel Galaxy Pinwheel Activity PDF
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Make a galactic mobile! Make your own collection of beautiful galaxies. Suspend them on a mobile so they turn and sparkle in the wind.
Download Galactic Mobile Activity PDF
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Make a GALEX galaxy montage! Make a colorful work of galactic art using coffee filters, markers, and construction paper. Hang your galaxy montage on the wall or refrigerator. It will remind you of the beauty of the night sky and the great variety of shapes the galaxies take.
Download GALEX Galaxy Montage Activity PDF
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Build a physics machine! If you build it carefully, this crazy contraption demonstrates one of the basic laws of nature. This law explains many events we see every day. For example, why does a big truck come out the winner in a head-on crash with a small car, even if both are going the same speed upon impact?
Download Physics Machine Activity PDF
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Make colorful star cookies! Make these yummy star cookies with genuine star-colored centers you can see through.
Download Star Cookies Activity PDF
View Star Cookies Activity
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People and Technology
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Build your own spacecraft! Become a NASA engineer and design the latest and greatest satellite.
Download Build Your Own Spacecraft Activity PDF
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Build your own birdseed wreath! Birds will love this simple bird feeder!
Download Birdseed Wreath Activity PDF
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Get your gummy greenhouse gases! Got gumdrops? Then you can build models of molecules. Molecules are tiny structures that make up just about all matter—including you! Molecules themselves are made of atoms, the basic building blocks of matter.
Using just four kinds of atoms as building blocks, you can construct many different types of molecules. In this project, you will build models of some gas molecules. These kinds of gas molecules are part of the air. They are called greenhouse gases.
Download Gummy Greenhouse Gases Activity PDF
View Gummy Greenhouse Gases Activity
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Ions in action! Make pieces of paper fly through the air and stick onto a balloon.
Download Balloon Ions Activity PDF
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Build a Moon habitat! Pretend you are an astronaut working with your teammates on the Moon to build your new lunar home.
Download Moon Habitat Activity PDF
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Make a balloon-powered nanorover! Roving a mini-"planet" calls for a "mini-rover." NASA built a tiny rover just a couple of inches high to explore the surface of an asteroid and take pictures.
You can build a nanorover too. Try this one, made from three styrofoam meat trays.
Download Balloon-powered Nanorover Activity PDF
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Build a bubble-powered rocket! Build your own rocket using paper and fizzing tablets! Watch it lift off. How high does your rocket go?
Download Bubble-powered Rocket Activity PDF
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Hear tiny sounds with a Super Sound Cone! Make a simple sound cone to turn up the volume on whatever sounds are coming from a particular direction. You will be amazed!
Download Super Sound Cone Activity PDF
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"See" inside a closed box! Suppose someone shows you a box and says it contains a mysterious object. Figure out what's in the box without looking or touching and the object is yours!
The box has no lid, but is covered by a piece of paper so you can't see inside. You are allowed to poke small holes in the paper with a sharp, straight stick of some kind, like a knitting needle, but you can't peek inside. How would you discover what's in the box?.
Download Topographic Map Activity PDF
View Topographic Map Activity
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Make a topographic map! Build your own mountain and make a topo map of it!
Download Topographic Map Activity PDF
View Topographic Map Activity
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