Joint creativity with a child is not only pleasant, but also useful. They help develop the baby's ability to think creatively and teach them how to do something with their own hands. For example, you can make a space rocket together.
You will need:
- large plastic bottle
- 2 hooks, awl and 2 plugs
- acrylic paints and sponge
- colored cardboard and scissors
- shiny paper
- paper and pencil
- markers
- tracing paper and PVA glue
Rocket model
Cut off the bottom of the plastic bottle. Use an awl to make two holes in the bottle. They should be located along the bottle in one straight line at a distance of 15 cm from each other. The holes are for mounting simple hooks, with which the rocket can be suspended in the air, for example, by a taut string.
For best staining, use a clear bottle.
Slide your hand into the bottle and place the cork against the opening. Screw the hook prepared from the outside into the cork. Invite your child to repeat this operation with their own hands, twisting the second hook.
Take blue acrylic paint and use a sponge to carefully paint the bottle, avoiding paint on the portholes. Invite your child to paint a few chaotic strokes with a sponge dipped in gold-colored acrylic paint. Let the rocket dry.
Design portholes
Make rocket portholes with your child. On the sheets of yellow and white paper, draw three circles of the same size.
Cut out three rings from shiny paper to be glued to the portholes as frames.
Ask your child to draw the faces of the astronauts who will travel on this rocket on a sheet of plain white paper in circles with felt-tip pens. Cut out the resulting portraits from the circles and glue them to the portholes.
The child can draw the faces of their favorite characters.
Installing stabilizers
Cut 4 rocket stabilizers out of cardboard. To do this, first draw four identical rectangles 10 cm long and 5 cm wide. At the top of the rectangle, step back 3 cm from the left edge and draw a line resting on the lower left corner.
Also draw a beveled line in the right corner of the rectangle. Only on this side will you get a smaller angle of inclination.
In the lower left corner, step back 1 cm and put a point with a pencil.
Invite your child to draw a line from this point to the upper right corner. Cut off the chamfered corners to make four stabilizer patterns.
Use a sponge to paint these patterns red with your child and let them dry.
Do not use water-based paints for painting.
Rocket mounting
Draw a 1 cm wide, 5 cm long wavy strip on gold paper with a pencil.
Fold the paper several times and cut out the strips. Stick them on the stabilizers with your child.
On the finished stabilizer patterns, gently bend the long edges 0.5 cm and glue them to the rocket.
In the room, you can pull a simple thread, tying it between some interior items, and hang the rocket from the hooks.
The rocket is ready for launch into space.
