Engaging space activities for kids with photo ideas—explore craters, rockets, stars, and galaxies.
World Space Week is from 4th - 10th October. To help educators join the global celebration, a variety of free themed activities are available for download. These resources are designed to be engaging, educational, and easy to use across different age groups, making space exploration accessible and fun for all.
Spaceship Shape Cards are a playful and engaging way to help young children develop shape recognition skills through hands-on exploration. Each card features a brightly colored spaceship with a distinct shape displayed on top—like a triangle, circle, or hexagon—and three possible matching shapes below.
Children are invited to identify the correct match and either clip it with a peg or mark it using a counter, making the activity both interactive and adaptable for different learning styles. These cards are perfect for shape hunts, fine motor practice, or quiet corner tasks, all while adding a cosmic twist to early learning.
World Space Week ideas for babies and toddlers: sensory play, crafts, songs, and gentle learning.
Teaching preschoolers about space can be a fun and engaging way to spark their curiosity and imagination! The following provides a variety of experiences for children can engage in.
Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me is a free story for Educators to download and read to young children. It is a story about a young girl named Monica who dreams of playing with the Moon, moon begins to shrink teaching Monica about moon phases.
This template is free. It is a fun template that children can use to detail what they would do if they were an alien.
This star-counting song encourages children to count backwards from 5 to 1.
This space action song is in the tune of Farmer In The Dell and each verse is about what you can do when you're flying to the moon. A great action song to introduce during circle time.
This counting astronaut rhyme song teaches the concept of ordinal numbers to children.
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