Children can imagine and create their own pictures of the nighttime sky.

Materials:

• Paper shapes to represent stars and moons that are full or crescent shaped
• Dark-colored construction paper
• Glitter
• Foil
• Non-toxic liquid glue

Directions:

Invite the children to tell you what they see when they look up at the sky at night. Ask the children to close their eyes and imagine a sky full of stars. (For musical fun, the children can sing, "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" as they imagine.) Talk about and describe objects in the night sky, such as stars and the moon.

Invite the children to look through an assortment of paper shapes you've prepared and choose several of them to make a night sky on dark-colored construction paper. The children can arrange the shapes any way they want. (It's not really important that the pictures actually look like the night sky. Some children may choose to use five moons instead of just one.) The children can add glitter and glue on foil to create interesting effects. To add glitter, the children can drizzle liquid glue onto the paper shape and sprinkle glitter on the glue. When the glue has dried, you or the children can shake off the excess glitter. Invite each child to show and describe his or her collage before displaying.

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