Today, I am going to share ten activities for toddlers and preschool-aged children to learn about space or the solar system. These activities could keep your children occupied while you work on your space unit studies with an older child(ren).
My children were three and two years old when we did these activities.
Fine Motor Skills
Sweeping up Space Objects
Help your child cut out an orange circle for the sun. Then let them glue it to a paper and try cutting out rays.
Sorting the stars and moon!
Use stickers to fill in the dots on this do a dot page. I can’t remember where I found this printable.
Another printable from the same place as above.
We made some rockets using our duplos.
You can let them experiment and make their own too!
Do a dot printables with pompoms, buttons and pony beads.
Vocabulary
Learning the planet names.
Math
We rolled up pieces of tin foil to make moon rocks. We then got out our free counting cards from Modern Preschool. The kids either picked them up with their fingers or transferred them using a scoop. They were also transferred from one bowl to the other.
2 piece puzzles
Memory Game
I made up some space memory playing cards for my kids to enjoy. They are available in French and English and Turkish and English in my Teachers Pay Teachers store. I called out the names of the planets in one of the languages when the kids were turning the cards over.
Learning the planet names in French and English
Bilingual Flashcards
Does your child have a favorite activity for learning about space ?
