Star Wars Learning Activities for Kids

May 4, 2023 by Sarah White Leave a Comment

Whether you celebrate May the Fourth be with You, Revenge of the Fifth, or This is the May, Star Wars activities are super fun all month long (or any other time) and give you a great excuse to talk about space exploration and observation. Pull out your favorite space crafts, print out some space mazes, or start planning a space camp at home, and check out these fun Star Wars learning activities.’

First, dress up your pencils by turning them into light sabers with this idea from Keeping it Simple Crafts. Then you’ll be all set to play these Star Wars-inspired Mad Libs from Get Away Today.

Or check out this Star Wars preschool printable pack from Hazen Home and School. It has a counting activity, three part cards, repeating patterns, letter tracing and more.

Help your toddler make Yoda out of simple shapes with this activity from Toddler Approved. Or you can make Star Wars characters using cardboard tubes with these ideas from Hello Wonderful.

Turn classic baking soda and vinegar play into a rescue mission with mini figures and this tutorial from Fun-a-Day.

Use basic bricks to make Star Wars-themed constructions (Yoda, R2D2 and a Death Star) with these ideas from Little Bins for Little Hands. Or grab the mosaic building cards from Frugal Fun for Boys and Girls. She also has a pattern from making Rainbow loom light sabers. So cute!

Color in some baby Yoda bookmarks for storytime from Rock Your Homeschool, and get a ton of printable games and activities from Preschool Printables Free. And don’t miss Printabelle’s Star Wars bingo cards.

And if your kids love to dress up, check out the easy Ewok ears and hoods I made for my daughter’s birthday a few years ago. Other than the fur mess these were easy to mass produce and a big hit with the kids!

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Make Unpoppable Bubbles You Can Play with Inside

If it’s hot where you live, you might be looking for some fun activities you can do with kids inside the house. And while bubbles are generally a strictly outside the house kid of activity, these special bubbles are ones you can play with inside. It’s both a lot of fun and a science lesson.

These bubbles aren’t blown into the air, you blow them onto a tabletop gently through a straw.

What’s really cool about them is that they will stay on the table top without popping. You can even blow another bubble inside the first bubble, or stack bubbles on top of each other.

Why does this work? It’s thanks to a special ingredient in the bubble solution: sugar.

This particular recipe is from Play Party Game, but I’m sure you can find it other places with similar ingredients as well. But this post has a good explanation for what is normally happening with regular bubble solution made mostly with just soap and water, as well as why the sugar helps to make bubbles stronger and helps them last longer.

You could make this into a full on science experiment for your kids, comparing regular bubbles (this time you’ll want to do it outside or somewhere easy to clean) to the “unbreakable” bubbles, letting them hypothesize about what ingredients might help make bubbles stronger or what the sugar does to the solution.

You can talk about the molecular structure of the bubble being altered by the sugar, which makes it stronger and longer lasting.

They even have an activity kit you can buy to help guide your explorations and that offers extension activities for you to try.

Or you could just play with them. No judgement here; it’s summertime.

Grab the recipe and more of the science behind the bubbles from Play Party Game. And while you’re playing with bubbles you can also check out my giant bubble solution recipe over at Our Daily Craft.

[Photo: Play Party Game]

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