If you’d like your own little astronaut to play with, we’ve got a cute little toilet paper roll astronaut craft for you! Comes with a little moon to explore!

Becoming an astronaut sounds amazing, doesn’t it? Ask any child and they would say that it would be super cool to wear a nice, big spacesuit and walk on the moon. That’s probably why kids love the space sections at museums, and often look at astronauts as heroes!

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Most Iconic Astronauts in History

Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin – American astronauts, the first men to land on the Moon
Aleksei Leonov – Russian astronaut, the first man to leave the spacecraft and take a spacewalk
Valentina Tereshkova – Russian astronaut and the first woman in space
John Glenn – First American astronaut to orbit the Earth
Alan Shepard – American astronaut, the first (and only) astronaut to play golf on the moon
Jim Lovell – American astronaut who’s famous for the line “Houston, we’ve had a problem here”

If you ask me, I have deep respect for astronauts – because they’re doing something I would be terrified to do! Astronauts go through very rigorous training before any space mission, and they have to maintain themselves in an optimum physical state. If you’d like to learn more about all the things an astronaut would have to do to prepare, why not do it as you make a cute toilet paper roll astronaut craft?

Adorable Toilet Paper Roll Astronaut Craft for Kids

Supplies required:

Colored craft papers
Empty toilet paper rolls/cardboard tubes
Template
Craft glue
Pencil
A pair of scissors
Markers

How to make the Toilet Paper Roll Astronaut Craft:

1. Download and print the Toilet Paper Roll Astronaut Craft Template. The template includes parts of the astronaut, such as the helmet and its parts, the face, shoes and other parts of the spacesuit.

2. Trace the parts of the template on craft paper of the appropriate colors and cut them out. The space suit base and helmet will be white, which seems right for an astronaut’s outfit! The face can be any skin color, while the other parts of the space suit can be a mix of grey and multiple colors.

3. Let’s start assembling our toilet paper roll astronaut craft with the head. Stick the face inside the helmet so that the straight edges are parallel to each other.

4. Stick the side controls on either side of the helmet, and the neck ring at the base of the helmet. This is the part that connects to the rest of the spacesuit.

5. Take out your markers and draw facial features on your astronaut’s face – eyes, nose, mouth and cheeks. Don’t forget a little tuft of hair on the top! Use a grey marker to draw outlines on the helmet and it’s parts.

6. Cut out a plain rectangle of paper that’s wide enough to go around the empty toilet paper roll and long enough to cover it from top to bottom.

7. Stick the shoes on the bottom edge of the white rectangle, in the middle. Stick the small button box above the shoes, towards the vertical center of the rectangle.

8. Glue the curved strips on either side of the button box and the straight strip under it. Use markers to draw buttons and other details on the astronaut’s spacesuit.

9. Apply glue all over the empty toilet paper roll and stick the white rectangle on it. The base of your toilet paper roll astronaut craft is ready!

10. Attach the astronaut head to the top of the spacesuit.

11. Put the toilet paper roll astronaut craft aside for now – we’re moving on to the moon.

12. Use a grey marker to draw craters and outlines on the moon cutout.

13. Take another empty toilet paper roll and cover it completely with black craft paper.

14. Glue the paper Moon to the black paper-covered toilet paper roll.

Now put our astronaut and moon together – your toilet paper roll astronaut craft is complete!

Look at your astronaut’s face – he is certainly thrilled to explore the moon on his own! You can use the same template of the moon and create other planets, so your astronaut has a lot more to explore. While you’re making them, learn about how each planet looks like from Earth, and what scientists have tried so far to explore them in space. We hope this little toilet paper roll astronaut craft gives you lots of hours of play and learning!

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