Visit Your Local Airport

Pack up a nutritious picnic and watch the planes take off and land. Take a walk inside and see all of the hustle and bustle! Stop and talk to an airport representative about any cool facts or any free-bees for kids!

Coloring

Grab paints, pencils, crayons, or markers and have fun coloring this cute airplane!

Styrofoam Jet

Supplies:

• printer
• paper
• CLEAN styrofoam meat tray OR the top of a styrofoam egg carton
• scissors
• paint or markers (see NOTE)

NOTE: you can't paint styrofoam with tempra paint or washable markers. It doesn't cover well and it will flake off when it's dry. Acrylic paint or permanent markers work well, but most of us don't want our kids using them. The solution I've come up with is to have the girls assemble the craft on day 1. In the evening, I paint the craft with white acrylic paint (you can buy it for less than $1 at Walmart or the craft store and it will work for many crafts). It dries overnight and in the morning the girls can paint over it with tempra paint or color over it with Crayola markers!

1. Cut out the template pieces.

2. Trace the template pieces onto a clean styrofoam meat tray or the top of a styrofoam egg carton

3. Cut a slit in the body of the plane near the middle for the wings

4. Cut a slit in the body of the plane at the back for the tail

5. Slide the wing piece and the tail piece onto the appropriate places (it's a bit hard because the styrofoam is thick, but it will squeeze... the tightness is what will hold your project together).

6. Paint the plane the desired color.

7. Add designs like windows, airline insignias, etc with paint or markers.

Paper Airplanes

Supplies: paper

Directions:.....

Take a piece of paper, and fold length-ways, and open out. It helps if you make this fold both ways, that is, fold it towards you once, then unfold and fold away from you, and then open out. This will help in the later stages.

Make 45 degree folds to the centre as shown.

Fold down the top as shown, the gap between the folds made in II and the new fold is about 2cm.

Now make 45 degree folds again.

There should now be a small triangle of paper sticking out, fold this upwards to ‘seal’ the folds made in IV.

Now fold the plane back on itself along the fold made in step I.

Fold down as shown to make wings. You should make the wings he same size as the fuselage, by folding them down to it.

The wings can now be folded out to plane shape. The wings should be above level to make the plane fly, lots above level for flights starting from a height, like a lecture hall.

Week 6

Airplanes!

*Suggested Reading*

First Flight: The Story of Tom Tate and the Wright Brothers (I Can Read Chapter Book Series) by George Shea

Who Was Amelia Earhart? by Kate Boehm Jerome

Airport by Byron Barton

Planes Board Book by Byron Barton

My Plane Book by Ellen Kirk

Items needed this week:

• paper
• CLEAN styrofoam meat tray OR the top of a styrofoam egg carton
• scissors
• paint or markers (see NOTE)

Snack Suggestion: Pretzels and Peanuts of course!