Alien Spaceship Craft
Looking for a fun and easy craft project for your kids? Look no further than this alien spaceship craft made with supplies you probably already have! This is a great way to teach your children about space, and it’s also a lot of fun. So get ready to blast off into outer space!
3…2…1…blast off! This alien spaceship craft is ready to take off into your craft time! I love space arts and crafts because it allows my kids to explore their imaginations in a completely different way.
This spaceship craft is super simple and doesn’t take very long to make. It’s a great craft-time option for children of all ages! If you tend to do crafts often at your home, you will likely already have all of the supplies you need to create a spaceship that is out of this world.
When you’re done creating your spaceships, the possibilities for playtime are endless! Create a silly puppet show, go one a space adventure, or simply add a magnet onto the back to create a stellar outer space decoration.
Why You’ll Love this Alien Spaceship Craft
- This fun alien craft idea creates an end product that is fun to play with and promotes creativity and imagination!
- Cutting and glueing objects helps aid in the development of fine motor skills.
- You can use all of the different colors in this craft to help teach color recognition to your kids.
Materials needed for this Spaceship Craft
- Construction Paper – You can use any of your favorite colors as the body of your spaceship! I used blue, green, and yellow.
- Pom Poms – These can be found at your local craft store or on the craft aisle at your grocery store. Get the pack that has multiple different sizes and colors in it.
- Wooden Craft Sticks – You can use colored or regular wooden craft sticks. The colors are more fun, but you could also quickly paint regular craft sticks if you can’t find colored ones.
- Craft Glue – Any good craft glue will work!
- Googly Eyes – I like to purchase a package of multi-sized googly eyes for this craft.
- Pipe Cleaner – Sparkly pipe cleaners are extra fun for this spaceship craft, but you can use regular ones too!
- Scissors – If you’re letting little kids cut out their own shapes, consider using safety scissors.
How to make this Alien Spaceship Craft
CUT: Take a sheet of yellow construction paper and draw a half circle on the paper. Then, fold it in 4 and cut it to create four tops for the spaceships. Draw a curved banana shape on the green paper and fold it in four. Cut it to create four bottoms for the spaceship.
GLUE: On the back of a yellow half circle, glue two wooden craft sticks on at an angle. Allow it to dry and then flip it over and glue a green bottom onto the yellow shape.
Glue four or five pom poms along the green bottom to make it look like lights on the spaceship. Then, glue one to three medium (or small) pom poms on top of the yellow body of the space ship.
CUT: Cut some pipe cleaners into small pieces and glue them into the alien pom pom to create antennas. You can press tiny pom poms into the top of the antenna or curve it to give the antennas a little movement.
FINISH: Glue the googly eyes, or just one eyes, to your alien and you’re done!
I can’t find pom poms, what else can I use?
If you can’t find glittery pom poms, you could use regular ones! You can also use buttons, craft jewels, any other small circular object, or even draw your alien and lights.
Pro Tips for the best Alien Spaceship Craft
- Make your spaceship extra fancy by adding glitter glue to the edges and on the wooden craft sticks!
- Create a bigger space ship by cutting out larger shapes and using jumbo craft sticks. If you do this, try using card stock instead of construction paper so that the larger shapes won’t flop around.
- You can place small beads on the end of your pipe cleaners as an end to your antennas!
How will you play with your little alien friend? Let me know!
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Alien Spaceship Craft
Ingredients
Instructions
- Use the yellow construction paper to make the top of the spaceship, and draw half of a circle on the paper (it doesn’t have to be perfect). Fold the paper in 4 and cut it. You now have 4 tops for the spaceship.
- Use the green paper to make the bottom of the spaceship. Draw a banana shape like on the green paper, fold the paper in 4 and cut it. You now have 4 bottoms for the spaceship.
- Take the yellow top of the spaceship and glue two craft sticks on it.
- Turn it over and glue the green bottom of the spaceship.
- Glue 4 yellow or red smalls and medium pompom in the green bottom of the spaceship to make the lights.
- Glue 1 or 3 mediums to larges pompoms on the yellow top of the spaceship. This will be the aliens.
- Cut a pipe cleaner into small pieces to make the antenna. Use small pompoms and press them at the top of the pipe cleaner; glue the antenna.
- Grab the glue and googly eyes, it's time to turn these aliens into CRAFTASTIC creations!
Notes
- Make your spaceship extra fancy by adding glitter glue to the edges and on the wooden craft sticks!
- Create a bigger space ship by cutting out larger shapes and using jumbo craft sticks. If you do this, try using card stock instead of construction paper so that the larger shapes won’t flop around.
- You can place small beads on the end of your pipe cleaners as an end to your antennas!
