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Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Craft Alien Spaceship Crayon Scratch

Off Art Build a Rocket Paper Shooting

Plasticine

Starry Night

S.T.E.M Moon Slime Galaxy in a Jar String Rocket Ship Mars Footprint Solar System

in a Bag

Active Spaceship Flight

Crew Training Asteroid Collision Freeze Dance Musical Planets Asteroid Field

Drama Exploding Galaxy

Experiment Space Yoga

Solar System

Necklace Moonwalk Dance

Space Arm

Construction

Table of Contents

Monday Page 2

Tuesday Page 4

Wednesday Page 6

Thursday Page 10

Friday Page 12

As a kid, I loved to think about space! Wouldn’t it be

super cool to visit the moon, see a space rover or walk

where there is no gravity? I know I'd certainly love

to experience that! My favourite planet is Mars

because of its amazing red colour! What’s your

favourite planet?

- Curtis Anderson,

Recreation Program Leader

We have been very busy filming some great videos

for you! Visit the Tiny Recreation YouTube Channel

to play games, sing songs, and follow along to this

week’s craft instructions. Each activity in this booklet

is accompanied by a video on our YouTube channel.

Some are short little clips while others let you spend

more time with us. We hope you have as much fun

watching them as we had making them!

Thursday is SPIRIT DAY! Dress up in your best space themed costume! Try

dressing up as an astronaut or alien! Counselors will show off their garb in a

special SPIRIT DAY video on Instagram — feel free to share your look with us

by posting on Instagram and tagging @tinyrecreation or by emaling your photo

to recreation@tiny.ca.

This week will be a blast as we fly to the moon!

Some of the awesome activities lined up this

space week include making some silky moon

slime, a paper astronaut and our very own

galaxy in a jar. Join us for a week of “out of this

world” fun!

Mars is often called the red

planet because of its

reddish appearance. It is

named after Roman, the

God of War. Woah!

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Pompoms

Googly eyes

Paper bowls

Clear cup

Glue

Paint

Paint brushes

1. Paint and decorate the paper bowl.

2. Glue eyes onto the pompom to create the alien and put the alien in the clear cup.

3. Glue the rim of the clear cup to the bottom of the bowl.

Do you want your UFO to actually fly? Attach string to

the UFO and tape it to your ceiling! Now your little alien

will always be flying.

Cornstarch

Shampoo

Food Colouring

1. Mix 1/2 cup of shampoo and 1/4 cup of cornstarch in a bowl.

2. Add 3 drops of food coloring (optional).

3. Slowly stir in 5 tablespoons of water, one tablespoon at a time.

4. Knead the slime for around 5 minutes.

5. Enjoy your slime once at your desired consistency.

Play around with the ingredients to make one stickier or

gooey by adding more cornstarch or more water!

UFO is an acronym for unidentified flying object. This

term was introduced in the 1950s after sightings of a

disc shaped flying object.

If you find that your slime is still sticky after kneading it

for a while, keep adding cornstarch to the slime and

knead it in until you get a good consistency.

Another word for the moon is Luna. Luna is a latin term

for “our Satellite” because the moon is earth's natural

satellite.

Bowl

Water

Measuring cups

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Cotton swabs

Food colouring

Milk

Plate

Dish soap

1. Pour enough milk to cover the bottom of the plate.

2. Gently drip one drop of each colour of food colouring onto the surface of the milk. Drop your colours close together near the centre of the plate.

3. Grab a cotton swab and coat one end with a drop of dish soap.

4. Press the soapy end of the cotton swabs into the middle of the plate, hold it steady, and watch what happens!

Marc Garneau was the first Canadian to fly in space but

Chris Hadfield was the first Canadian to Walk in

space. Roberta Bondar became Canada’s first woman

astronaut when she flew aboard the space shuttle

Discovery in 1992.

Try taking turns with a friend! Whoever collects the

most pairs at the end wins!

Memory cards

1. Mix up the memory cards.

2. Place them face down.

3. Flip over 2 at a time and see if they match.

4. If they match, you keep the cards. If they do not match, put them back face down.

5. Repeat until all the matches are found.

Add some glitter or sprinkles for more fun!

There are approximately 170 billion observable

galaxies with as much as a hundred trillion stars.

Tiny Recreation Exploding Galaxy

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Paper clip

White paper

1. Randomly colour the white paper so you can’t see any white. Use lots of different colours.

2. Paint over the colour with black paint.

3. Use the paper clip to scratch off the black paint so the colour shows through. Create lots of designs!

Cotton balls

Glitter

Jar

Food colouring

1. Fill ⅓ of the jar with water.

2. Add several drops of only one food colouring. Shake the jar to mix the food colouring and water.

3. Add glitter for stars.

4. Stretch out cotton balls and add them to the jar until the bottom is filled with cotton. Push them down to the bottom with a stick or a spoon.

5. Fill another ⅓ of the jar with water and a different colour of food coluring and repeat steps 2-4.

6. Fill the final ⅓ of the jar with water and repeat steps 2-4 again.

7. Enjoy your awesome galaxy in a jar!

In 1961, Yuri Gagarin was the first person to fly to

space. It took a total of 108 minutes. Cool!

Use the paperclip to create a space themed drawing.

For example you could draw an alien, the solar system

or even a spaceship!

If you liked the galaxy in a jar, you could try making a rainforest in a jar, aquarium in a jar or even a snowglobe in a jar!

There is a black hole at the centre of all large galaxies,

including our own Milky Way Galaxy! Earth is said to be

approximately 3, 300 light years away from the nearest

black hole! That is extremely far!

Water Black paint

Crayons

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Yoga cards

Open space

Towel or yoga mat (optional)

1. Find an open space indoors or outdoors.

2. Put down your towel or yoga mat (optional).

3. Use the yoga card and try all of the different poses.

4. Make sure to take slow steady breaths and stay nice and calm.

Tin foil

Box

1. Make asteroids by crumpling up tin foil into different sized balls.

2. Place your box 3 metres away and see how many asteroids you can land inside your box.

3. Award different points for hitting the box and for landing inside the box.

Yoga is 5000 years old! The most ancient form of

Yoga is known as the Vedic Yoga. How cool!

Make your box look like a planet! Use paint or markers

to decorate it! You can even use construction paper,

pipe cleaners or any other materials you have around

your house to create a ring around your planet.

Asteroids travel around 138, 000 kilometres an hour.

They all orbit around our sun. So fast!

Tiny Recreation Space Yoga

Make up your own yoga poses and create cards for

them! Teach them to your friends and family. See how

long they can hold the pose!

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Cardboard roll

Construction paper

Ribbon

Tinfoil

2 bottle caps

1. Wrap the cardboard roll with tinfoil.

2. Cut out a large circle and two triangles in the construction paper.

3. Cut a slit halfway across the large circle and roll it into a cone shape for the top of the rocket ship. Secure it with tape.

4. Glue or tape the cone to the top of the cardboard roll and the triangles to the bottom sides.

5. Draw happy faces on the bottle caps and glue them onto the outside of the rocket. These will be the windows.

6. Glue or tape ribbon on the bottom of the rocket. These will be the flames.

Scissors

Markers

Glue

Tape

String

Balloon

Straw

2 chairs

Tape

1. Blow up the balloon.

2. Tape the straw onto the side of the balloon.

3. Feed the string through the straw.

4. Tape both ends of the string onto two separate chairs.

5. Hold the balloon at one end of the string and release the air.

6. Watch your rocket go!

Astronaut comes from the Greek word “astron'', which

means star and “nautes” meaning sailor.

Attach your astronaut to your string rocket! See how far

your little person can fly!

A rocket can carry over 6,000 pounds at speeds of

35,400 kilometres an hour.

If you liked making your rocket, try making an astronaut

for your rocket! Use a small cardboard box and cut out

a circle for the helmet and a rectangle for the body!

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String (gimp)

Dowel

Plasticine

1. Roll the plasticine into small balls of different colours. Try to match them to the planet picture below.

2. With the dowel, poke a small hole through the centre of each planet.

3. Thread the string through the planets.

4. With an adult’s help, tie off the ends of your necklace.

The dwarf planet Pluto is surrounded by a frozen mass.

Interesting ices like methane and nitrogen coat its

surface.

Music

1. One person controls the music while the rest spread out in an open area.

2. The music plays and everyone dances.

3. When the person controlling the music, pauses it, everyone freezes on the spot.

4. The last person to freeze is out.

5. Keep playing until there is one person left who is declared the winner.

Some rockets go faster than the speed of sound.

Sound can travel 332 metres per second! Imagine how

fast those rockets must go!

Instead of freezing on the spot, the person controlling

the music shouts out an object that everyone has to

grab. An example would be spoons and the last person

to grab a spoon is out.

Try putting the planets in order of our real solar system!

Look to this picture for reference:

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This week, we will learn the French names for different parts of our solar system! You can follow along with the diagram

while you watch us on YouTube!

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For those who are French experts, practice filling out

this diagram with the planets names in French. If you

need some help, use the sheet on Page 8.

Dans l’espace, lorsque l’on se brosse les dents la seule manière d’éliminer la dentrifice est de l’avaler.

Identify each space component with a number:

1. Terre

2. Lune

3. Soleil

4. Étoile

5. Planètes (8)

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1 ¼ cups baking soda

¾ cup cornstarch

Paper plate

Tooth picks

Canada flag

Construction paper

Red food colouring

1. Mix together the baking soda, cornstarch and water in a bowl.

2. Transfer the mix to a medium stove pot. Have an adult heat it on the stove at medium heat.

3. Stir the mixture frequently until it has the consistency of mashed potatoes.

4. Place the mixture back into the bowl, allowing it to cool for 30 minutes.

5. Put 2 drops of red food colouring into the dough and mix with hands.

6. Put the dough on the plate and place the plate on the ground.

7. Press your foot into the dough and take it out once there is a good footprint.

8. Create a flag using construction paper.

9. Tape the Canada flag and your flag to toothpicks and stick them into your footprint.

Create the same craft with different images.

Instead of a shooting star, cut out a rocketship or a

UFO! Be creative!

Variety of paint colours

Black paint

Paintbrushes

Pencil

Scissors

1. Paint the bottom of one paper plate in black and paint the bottom of the other plate colours.

2. Pour glitter over black painted plate while wet to create a starry night sky.

3. Cut out the shooting star(s) template and when dry, trace the template onto the unpainted underside of the black paper plate.

TIP: Make sure you don't trace a shooting star right in the centre of the paper plate so you can connect the paper plates later.

4. Remove the template and cut out the shooting stars. Have an adult help with this step if it is difficult!

5. Stack the black plate on top of the colourful plate so both painted sides are upwards.

6. Attach the fastener by pressing it into the centre of both paper plates to keep them together.

7. Spin the top plate and watch as the shooting stars change colours!

The moon influences the oceans, weather and hours in

a day on earth.

Paper plates

Paper fastener

Shooting star template

Glitter

¾ cup of water

Mixing bowl

Tape

Medium stove pot

Large spoon

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Variety of sports balls

Speaker

Music playlist

1. Designate someone to control the music. The game goes quickly so switch up who controls the music after each game!

2. Line up the balls in a circle. Make sure there is one less ball than there are players. For example, if there are 5 players, make sure there are only 4 balls in the circle.

3. Players will circle these “planets” while the music plays.

4. When the music stops, players sit on a ball. The player left standing is out of the game. Any player who loses balance and falls off of a planet is also out of the game. Keep playing until only one player is left.

Galileo made a telescope allowing him to find

Jupiter and discovering that the moon had mountains

and pits.This was back in the 1600s, that's over 400

years ago!

Tiny Recreation YouTube Chanel

You can jump as high as 10 feet on the moon and float

for 4 seconds. Wow!

Try hitting the balls away before someone sits on it.

Now everyone has to chase the ball before sitting on it.

If you do not have access to YouTube at home, no

problem! Think of a dance routine you can perform for

your friends and family! Do slow motion actions just like

you would on the moon!

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Tiny Recreation Moon Walk

The footprints left on the Moon by man won’t disappear

as there is no wind in space. Cool!

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Water

Ziploc Bag

1. Pour all the orbeez into the big plastic bag.

2. Fill the rest of the bag with water (don’t over fill).

3. Leave the orbeez planets to grow in the bag!

4. Watch the planets expand. In 4 hours, they will be fully grown. The longer you leave them in the water, the bigger they get.

5. Once the planets are completely grown, you can carefully open the ziplock and feel them. Make sure to put them back and close the bag so they don't leak!

Name all your planets (each color) to create your own

solar system! Draw them out on a piece of paper

showing how far they are from each other!

When you have finished playing with your Orbeez, it is

possible to shrink them. Orbeez are reusable.

The easiest way to shrink Orbeez is to leave them in

the sun. They will release the water and shrink to their

original size!

Orbeez 20 different objects that are soft enough to throw (balls, pillows etc.)

1. Divide into two teams.

2. Gather all the soft objects.

3. Each team gets 10 objects to throw as the “asteroids.”

4. Divide the playing field in two (make a long line separating the two sides).

5. On go, all the players throw all their asteroids into the other team’s side (Throwing their asteroids back to them is allowed).

6. After 3 minutes, the team with the most asteroids on their side loses!

Asteroids are leftovers of the early Solar System. The

planets and the moons that we see today are the

survivors of that chaotic period. By studying asteroids,

we get a sense of what the Solar System used to be

like billions of years ago. WOW!

Payers have to pass the object to three different people

before they can throw in over onto the opposing team's

field.

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The temperature of a shooting star is around 1,650

degrees celsius! Hot!

String

Elastic bands

2 cups

3 people

Water

1. Place an elastic around the rim of the cup and tie three long strands of string around the elastic.

2. Fill 1/4 of the cup with water and have each person take a string.

3. At the same time, each person pulls on their string to slowly raise the cup into the air.

NOTE: Teamwork is super important to complete this task! Everyone needs to be pulling at the same time and with the same speed!

6. Using only the strings to hold onto, transfer the water from the original cup to the second cup.

7. Increase difficulty by making the distance between the cups farther and adding obstacles to go around.

Race against another team and see whose space arm

can pick up the most objects in 3 minutes!

There is a famous space robotic arm in Canada called

the Canadarm. It is used for space missions, to deploy,

maneuver and capture passengers. NEAT!

Tiny Recreation Space Arm

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If you have white Christmas lights, include them into

your creation! Your starry sky can act as a night light!

“Camp in a Box” box

Plasticine

Toothpicks

Constellation diagrams

Paint

Paint brushes

1. Start out by painting the top of the box black or blue; this will be the dark sky.

2. Following the constellation diagrams, recreate the constellations with the plasticine and toothpicks.

3. Make stars by rolling your plastacine into round balls and use the toothpicks as the constellation connectors.

4. After all constellations are made, use the plasticine stars to stick the constellation to your dark sky.

5. Decorate your sky anyway you like.

6. Add the star stickers to your sky to give it a night time effect.

Create your own star constellation! Once you create

your masterpiece, add it to the constellation diagram to

make it official (under “create your own constellation”).

The famous artist Vincent Van Gough, who painted

“Starry Night,” considered it a failure. It is the most

recognized painting in western culture! Interesting!

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Free sports equipment loaner kits are available to borrow and contain everything needed

to play a variety of sports. Kits include instructions, game play rules and examples of skill

drills and activities. The following sport loaner kits are available for rent throughout the

summer:

Pickleball Tennis Soccer Bocce Ball

Frisbee Golf Giant Lawn Bowling Ball Hockey Beach Volleyball

Kits can be borrowed from Thursday to Tuesday and equipment is cleaned and sanitized

after each use. For more information and to reserve, visit the Tiny Online Portal

(www.tiny.ca/onlineportal) or contact the Recreation Department by emailing

recreation@tiny.ca or calling (705) 526-4204 ext. 3.

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