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Help the shooting star make its journey through space by finding your way through the maze.
How to Find...The North star
Line up the two red stars that are found in The Big Dipper, and follow that line to discover the North Star!
Can you find the North star tonight?
Can you find the Alien space ship hidden in this picture?
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...that the sun is a star!
Concept
Using a Space theme we have brought the alphabet to life on the back of the Alphabites boxes. Our colourful boxes inspire and engage kids to learn about Space in a fun and creative way. Our boxes include cut out planets,
Learn the cheesy nacho rhythm to help you remember the order of the planets My Very Excellent Mother Just Served Us Nachos
Mercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune
Saturn’s rings are made up of rock, dust and ice!
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Stars with Hair
Comets come from the outer realms of the Solar System. They have been described as ‘stars with hair’ because of their long tails. The tail can change direction depending on where the Sun is.
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Halley’s Comet
Halley’s Comet is the most famous comet and it can be seen from Earth with the naked eye every 75 years or so.
...Pluto is no longer classed as a planet. Pluto has been a Dwarf Planet since 2006.
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...71% of the surface of our home planet Earth is covered by water. That is why it looks blue from Space.
Saturn 5 is the largest rocket ever built. It had five rocket engines and was taller than a 30-story building. It took the first men to the moon.
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Can you find the Alien space ship hidden in this picture?
Did you know... ...The first words said on the moon were ‘the Eagle has landed’
Astronauts’ footprints will stay on the Moon for millions of years. There is no wind to blow them away! How many footprints can you find on the moon?
Can you find the Alien space ship hidden in this picture?
Can you find the Alien space ship hidden in this picture?
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Collect the Solar System Cut out Jupiter and Mars, stick them to the magnets inside this box. Collect all of the boxes to complete the Solar System on your fridge!
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Cold stars are red Warm stars are yellow
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Collect the Solar System Cut out Venus and Earth, stick them to the magnets inside this box. Collect all of the boxes to complete the Solar System on your fridge!
Can you find the Alien space ship hidden in this picture?
Count how many cold, warm and hot stars you can find
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...that a shooting star is not a star? It is a meteor, which is made from rocks!
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...On the 20th July 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on the moon!
Can you spot which planet has the biggest moon?
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Collect the Solar System Cut out the Sun and Mercury, stick them to the magnets inside this box. Collect all of the boxes to complete the Solar System on your fridge!
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In our solar system, eight major planets circle around the Sun. The Sun sits in the middle while the planets travel in circular paths (called orbits) around it.
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Collect the Solar System Cut out Saturn and Uranus, stick them to the magnets inside this box. Collect all of the boxes to complete the Solar System on your fridge!
Comets are made of ice, dust and small rocky particules kind of like a dirty snowball! Can you create your own rocky comet using materials like paper and dried pasta? Dont forget a long tail!
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Collect the Solar System Cut out Neptune, stick it to the magnet inside this box. Collect all of the boxes to complete the Solar System on your fridge!
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which when applied to the fridge magnets inside the box, complete the Solar System. The collectble aspects of the fridge magnets build excitement among kids, and anticipation for future boxes. Summer Whittaker & Amelia Hanson
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Each box has an illustration or two of a planet from our Solar System. The child is prompted to cut out the planets and connect it to the fridge magnets found inside the box. Once all of the boxes are collected the solar system is completed.
Collect all the boxes to complete the Solar System This interactive activity makes learning fun and brings the Solar System to life on the family fridge. The kids are also taught a rhyme to remember the order of the planets.
Summer Whittaker & Amelia Hanson
Web Presence
When we were designing our cereal boxes we wanted to create a concept that could be applied to other media. We felt the space theme was fun for kids without being too scholarly. We wanted to extend the fun on the cereal boxes
further, and have created disposable activity sheets that can be downloaded from the website. The Bear website will take kids into a wonderful new world, jam packed full of facts and activities.
The theme is continued online to engage kids with educational activties
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BIGDIPPER COMET EARTH MARS MILKYWAY LIGHT MOON PLANET SKY SPACE STAR SUN TELESCOPE TIME
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...in space, astronauts cannot cry, because there is no gravity, so the tears can’t flow.
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Complete the wordsearch by finding all of the space related words!
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...there are more stars than all of the grains of sand on Earth!
Colour this placemat and learn more about space!
Circle the 3 differences between the rockets!
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Fill in the missing letters using the cereal boxes to help you!
M _ RCURY SOL _ R SYSTEM EAR _ H SHO _ TING STAR COM _ T ASTRO _ AUT
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How many stars can you find?
Activity Place Mats
Our activity place mats can be enjoyed for more than one breakfast sitting. Once the cereal boxes are completed, parents can download the printable place mat in order to entertain kids for longer. We designed these activity sheets
which can also be used as disposable place mats. We hoped that our place mats would bring even more fun to the breakfast table and beyond.
Printable activity sheets that double as disposable place mats can be downloaded online
Summer Whittaker & Amelia Hanson