Help Kids Learn About Space with This Fun Glove Box

My daughter is a little obsessed with space, and we talk about it and study it a lot. I recently came across this idea for making an astronaut glove box from Gift of Curiosity, and I just love it.

Basically all you have to do is find a cardboard box, cut off the top, cut holes for arms and add some “moon rocks” and other objects for kids to discover. The top gets covered with plastic wrap so they can see through but the box is sealed, just like when real astronauts study specimens.

This project was just a part of Katie’s space unit study, which includes book recommendations on topics such as space, the moon, the sun and the planets. There are also other activities including learning about how astronauts eat in space, how planets orbit the sun, how the moon got its craters, phases of the moon and, of course, a model solar system.

This whole unit would be so much fun for kids! I will definitely be doing some of these activities with my little one.

Have any great resources for learning about space? I’d love to see them!

[Photo via Gift of Curiosity.]

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I’m in deep denial about the fact that new year is almost upon us again! It’s been the fastest and the longest year at the same time, and I can look back and see some good things as well as some things I wish had gone differently.

Doing a year in review with your kids — whether in the classroom or at home — is a good way to capture some of their memories and the things they really liked about the year gone by.

There are a lot of different printable year in review worksheets you can use if you want to make this super easy. Here are links to a few (often part of larger posts about NYE celebrations with kids that are worth a read, too):

Teach Beside Me has lots of fun printables fro the end of the year, including a year in review that covers favorite memory, funniest memory and the best book they read, among other topics.
NurtureStore‘s version has space for a self-portrait and prompts like favorite toy, best day out this year and future dream job.
Remember favorites, their “best idea” of the year and have room for setting goals for next year with this one from The Keele Deal.
The year in review from Yes We Made This has room for drawing or writing and includes things like something they learned, a memory they made and a place they visited.

Of course you could pretty easily make your own year in review for the whole family to do that asks questions based on what you most want to remember. (Favorite video game? Best friend? Favorite family memory?)

And if after the year in review you’re ready to look ahead a bit, Mrs. Merry has new year’s resolution printables to inspired kids to look ahead and set goals for things they want to try. You can totally fill this one out as a grownup, too.

[Photo: Mrs. Merry]

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