Rocket and Plane Day ideas for OSHC
12 DIY activities for a rocket and plane day at before and after school care or vacation care, usually run around Any time / World Space Week (October) or Any time / National Science Week (August). Pick and mix, or build a balanced day in one click.
Building Brick Planes
Children design and build planes from building bricks, testing different wing shapes and sharing how their designs would fly.
Space Explorers · Science and Space · Rocket and Plane Day +2Cardboard Rocket Ships
Children build rockets from tubes, boxes and foil, designing fins, windows and a launch pad.
Science Day · Rocket and Plane Day · Science Week +2Fizzy Canister Rockets
Older children add a fizzing tablet and water to small snap-lid canisters and watch the gas build up and pop the lids skyward.
Halloween · Rocket and Plane Day · Science Day +2Ghost Rockets
Children decorate small canisters as ghosts, then launch them with fizzing tablets and water.
Flying High · Science Week · Rocket and Plane Day +2Paper Helicopter Spinners
Children make paper spinners that twirl like falling seeds and test how design changes the drop time.
Holidays and Travel Week · Flying High · Rocket and Plane Day +2Paper Plane Airlines
Children fold paper planes and decorate them with their own airline name and logo, then test how far they fly.
Rocket and Plane Day · Flying High · Paper Crafts Day +3Paper Plane Challenge
Children fold and test paper planes, adjusting their designs to fly furthest, stay up longest or loop the loop.
Planes, Trains and Automobiles · Rocket and Plane Day · Flying High +2Paper Plane Distance Contest
Children fold different paper plane designs and test them for distance. Simple science of flight.
Rocket and Plane Day · Space Explorers · Science Week +3Stomp Rockets
Children stomp on an empty bottle to send a paper rocket flying through a tube, then experiment with rocket shapes to go further.
Space Explorers · Rocket and Plane Day · Science Week +2Straw Rockets
Children make paper rockets that slide over a straw and launch them with a puff, measuring how far each one flies.
Balloon Day · Science Week · Rocket and Plane Day +3String Balloon Rockets
Children tape a balloon to a straw on a string line and let it go, watching it zoom along and exploring how air pushes it forward.
Flying High · Rocket and Plane Day · Planes, Trains and Automobiles +2Wing Design Challenge
Children design and test paper wings and gliders to see which shape flies the furthest.