Activities, Games, Entertainment & Recipes

Because Space Week isn’t Space Week without a bunch of hands-on activities, out-of-this-world-recipes, movies and a spacey playlist to boot!

So crank the volume up, grab your tools and get into action.

Space Playlist

We’ve put together a playlist of our spaciest tunes so all you have to do is press ‘play’ and enjoy the activities.

Recipes

Don your Star Wars aprons, crank the space tunes and try your hand at a new culinary creation these school holidays.

Planet Cookies 

Galaxy lemonade

Space Rock Cakes

Space Rock Clusters

Space Rocket Strawberries

Activities and games

From building rocket ships to moon habitats and learning all about the Apollo mission. Read on for a bunch of educational and fun activities courtesy of NASA Kids Club.

Colour your universe

Find hidden space-y objects in the online colouring-in sheet, and virtually colour them in as you learn about the Hubble space telescope, asteroid belts, exoplanets and more!

Let’s play!

Play the Helios game

Learn about how the sun makes energy through nuclear fusion in the Helios game. It’s up to you to match the particles and turn the hydrogen atoms into helium atoms to keep the sun shining bright!

Let’s play!

Make your own galaxy slime

With only a few ingredients, you can have the universe in your hands – to stretch and play with!

Slime on!

Build your own moon habitat

You can be a Moon explorer too. Practice by building your own Moon habitat. Pretend you are an astronaut working with your family, friends and teammates on the Moon to build your new home.  

Download your activity sheet here.

NASA Forward to the Moon Activity 

Play word and number puzzles while you learn about the Apollo mission that first put people on the Moon. Find out about the Artemis mission that will land the first American woman and the next American man on the Moon. The free, printable booklet has mazes, word searches, sudoku puzzles with pictures and other types of puzzles. You can learn about NASA’s new Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft. These space vehicles will take humans to the Moon and to Mars. 

Download your activity booklet here.

Download your answer booklet here.

NASA Tech Fun Pad kids 5-12 

A printable pad full of fun where you can explore all things Space. 

Download your Fun Pad here.

NASA Commercial Crew Colouring Book

Suitable for kids aged 2 – 5 years. Download this printable coloring, writing and activity book. Work puzzles and learn new words about NASA’s Commercial Crew Program that will launch astronauts to space on rockets.

Download your colouring book here.

Build your own paper rocket ship

Let your child’s imagination travel across the sky with this rocketship that SuperHands is going to show us how to make. It is fast and easy. Now your children can explore the universe without leaving home. Let’s get to work, Fed astronauts! 

Movies

After all the activities you can pull up a comfy spot on the sofa and get stuck into our Top 10 Space films, suitable for kids and big kids alike. 

Kids & Family

• E.T the Extra Terrestrial (G) 
• Star Wars (PG)  
• Hidden Figures (PG) 
• Apollo 13 (PG) 
• Intersteller (PG)
• Flash Gordon (PG) 
• MARS – Netflix Series (PG) 
• 2001 A Space Odyssey (G) 
• Space Jam (G) 
• Space Buddies (G) 

Big Kids (Ie. Adults) 

• The Dish (M)
• The Martian (M) 
• Alien & Aliens (MA) 
• Star Trek – The Motion Picture (M) 
• Guardians of the Galaxy (M) 
• Total Recall – 1990 Version (R18+) 
• Avatar (M) 
• First Man (M) 
• AWAY – Netflix Series (M) 
• The Fifth Element (M) 

For more space fun and galactic games be sure to check out the NASA Kids Club! https://www.nasa.gov/kidsclub/index.html