World Space Week ideas for OSHC
6 DIY activities for World Space Week at before and after school care or vacation care. Pick and mix, or build a balanced day in one click.
Asteroid Belt Dodge
A fast outdoor game where 'spaceships' try to cross the asteroid belt while educators and children roll soft balls across their path.
World Space Week · Space Explorers · Science and Space +2Astronaut Glove Challenge
Children try everyday tasks such as threading beads or building with bricks while wearing thick gloves, discovering how hard fine work is for astronauts on spacewalks.
World Space Week · Science and Space · Science Week +2Chalk Sundial Shadow Clock
Children build a giant sundial using a stick or a child as the pointer, marking shadows through the day to see how Earth's spin moves the Sun across our sky.
World Space Week · Coding Unplugged · Space Explorers +3Mars Rover Command Grid
One child plays a Mars rover, following arrow-card commands written by 'mission control' to collect rock samples across a chalk grid, practising unplugged coding.
World Space Week · Space Explorers · Inventors Day +3Recycled Satellite Design Lab
Children design and build a satellite from recycled materials, deciding what job it does, such as weather watching or sending messages, and presenting it to mission control.
World Space Week · Space Explorers · Science and Space +2Toilet Roll Solar System Walk
Children unroll a toilet roll to make a scale model of distances between the planets, discovering just how much empty space there is in our solar system.