Preschool Space Activity – Building a Planetarium with your Preschooler

Is your preschooler fascinated with the stars? Have you taken your preschooler to a planetarium yet? Whether or not you have, you can teach your preschooler how to create their own planetarium with this easy preschool space activity. You and your preschooler can actually simulate the night sky within your home with this fun and easy preschool space activity.

What your Preschooler will learn from this Preschool Space Activity:

1. How to create a planetarium
2. It’ll interest your preschooler in space
3. That stars and planets look a lot alike from earth

What you will Need for this Preschool Space Activity:

1. A medium-sized plastic funnel
2. Black construction paper
3. A pushpin
4. A pencil or pen
5. Tape
6. A small flashlight
7. A kitchen or dining room table
8. One or two blankets

What to do:

Step one: Take your funnel and tape your piece of black construction paper over the bigger hole of the funnel.

Step two: Take a small pin and pencil and poke holes the black construction paper. Tell your preschooler the small holes are stars while the bigger holes are the planets.

Step three: Set your preschooler up under a table with a blanket covering the sides. The idea is to make the area under the table as dark as possible.

Step four: Shine your flashlight through the smallest part of the funnel and your preschooler will have their own planetarium.

Variations on this Preschool Science Activity:

1. You can build this planetarium in your preschooler’s bedroom after dark, by simply turning off the light
2. If you can, try to have your flashlight be small enough to completely fill the smaller hole of the funnel

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