Crafts for Kids Who Are Wild About Outer Space.pdf

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For Greyson, who has always liked his space!-K.R.

For my mother, who gave me space-S.L.H.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-PublicationData

Ross, Kathy (Katharine Reynolds), 1948-

Crafts for kids who are wild about outer space / Kathy Ross ; illustrated by Sharon Lane Holm

p. cm.

Summary: Provides instructions for twenty projects, creating such things as a planet mobile,

constellation tack board, space helmet, moon buggy, pop-up alien puppet, and rocket pin.

ISBN 0-7613-0054-6 (lib. bdg.) ISBN 0-7613-0176-3 (pbk.)

1. Handicrafi-Juvenile literature. 2. Outer space in art-Juvenile literature.

3. Space vehicles in art-Juvenile literature. [l . Handicraft. 2. Outer space in art.

3. Space vehicles in art.] I. Holm, Sharon Lane, ill. II. Title.

lT160.R714225 1997

745.5-dc20 96-14303 CIP AC

Published by The Millbrook Press, Inc.

2 Old New Milford Road

Brookfield, Connecticut 06804

Illustrations 01997 by Sharon Lane Holm

Printed in the United States of America

543

Contents

Pom-Pom Planet Mobile 8

Comet Ball 11

Flip-the-Rings-on-Saturn Game 12

Starry-Sky Light Catcher 14

Constellation Tack Board 16

Orbiting Sputnik 18

Astronaut-into-the-Spaceshi p Puppet 20

Stars-in-a-JarShaker 23

Moon Buggy 24

Straw Rocket 27

Rocket Pin 28

Racing Rocket 30

Doll Friend Space Suit 32

Space Helmet 34

Weightless Box 36

Magnetic Space Walk 38

Command Module and Parachute 40

Pop-Up Alien Puppets 42

Alien-in-a-Saucer Necklace 44

Robot Hideaway 46