Materials
White art paper
Crayons
Watercolors
Sponges, cut in 2" x 2" (5 cm x 5 cm)
Containers
Water
Silver or gold glitter and glue
Instructions
1. The day before you plan to do this activity, ask the children to look at the night sky and to try to
remember all that they see.
2. The next day, invite the children to draw a picture of what they saw in the night sky.
3. Suggest that they color the stars and moon with crayons, pressing hard, but ask them not to
color the sky.
4. Give the children watercolors, sponges, and containers of water. Using the sponges, the children
should wet their papers entirely and put a black or dark blue "wash" over their pictures of the
sky.
5. When the pictures are dry, invite the students to use glitter to make their "Starry, Starry Night"
pictures sparkle.
More to do
Dramatic play: Use a refrigerator box to make a "rocket ship" for the play center. Put a journal or
plain paper inside for the "astronauts" to record what they see in "outer space."
