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| | We are starting Star Quest in September and I need some decorating ideas. I am thinking I will hang some stars from the ceiling but I need some sort of focal point. This will be our third module. We did Doghouse first and we are just finishing up Wilderness Trail. Both modules lent themselves well to decorating. I made a life-size doghouse out of a cardboard box and bought a life-size stuffed dog at Goodwill to put in front of it for Doghouse and for Wilderness Trail I bought a couple of Christmas trees at Goodwill's "Christmas in July" sale ($8.00 for both) and set up a little tent and the trees and some stuffed forest animals. Both were something the kids could interact with, especially the little ones. So you see, the kids are expecting something they can really have fun with and be part of and I can't think of anything! Help! Thanks, Rondee |
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| | Hi there! Have you checked out the decorating ideas online? You can go to http://www.group.com/support/lio/decorating.asp for ideas for each module. I'll include here what is listed as ideas to get you started for Star Quest: • Create 3-D stars to suspend from the ceiling. Cut out pictures of planets as well and create your own version of “space.” • Use dark sheets to cover walls (navy blue) and purchase glow-in-the-dark stars to affix to the sheets. Then you can darken your room during part of your large-group time and let your kids feel like astronauts. • Create spaceships & rockets (use lots of foil). Visit http://spaceplace.jpl.nasa.gov/en/kids/projects.shtml for lots of creative crafts straight from NASA! Hopefully this will get you started. Please let us know if we can be of service in any other way. God bless you and your ministry!
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| | We just started this module. I tacked up black plastic tableclothes lengthwise around the room starting from the ceiling. This covered the top half of the walls in black. I stuck on glow in the dark plastic stars and planets from the dollar store and I found beach ball type planets of the solar system which I hung from the ceiling with clear fishing line.( Found these in Oriental Trading Post). At the very end of the hour, I turn off the lights and the kids ohh and ahh at the glow in the dark effect. |
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| Great ideas. Thanks for sharing!
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| | We are just finishing up with star quest. In our room, we have a central stage. I have found that my efforts are more effective when focused on the stage. we took a dark blue bed sheet and painted small white and yellow dots to look like stare on a night sky as background. We then took several moving boxes and covered them in aluminum foil using spray adhesive. we then used a box of toy gears and electric wire connectors (that you twist on) and hot glued them onto the boxes to look like buttons and controls. We stacked four boxes untop of one another (a smaller one on top). On the top one, I glued on a blown up a clip art robot head. I then took a set of ajustable christmas chasing lights and pushed the flashing bulbs into holes (I used a LARGE nail to make the holes) in the top two boxes. I gave my husband a voice modulator (found at Target's halloween section for $8) to speak into as a robot. It's suppose to sound like an alien. As he spoke off stage, he would twist the adjustment knob to make the robots lights match his words. This enhanced the illusion. When he wasn't talking, he left the lights on a steady burn. My husband and I are very good at playing off of one another. He played an intelligent, but smart alec part correcting any mistakes I might make. The children loved him. For the control center, we piled longer boxes covered with all the goodies to make a control panel covered in gizmos. We used this item for week four (zook and Bucky). We don't have the room to do showdows theatre well. We perfer to act it out. We added an easy button for the part when the captains tells Bucky to push that button, when she did, the audience heard "That was easy". These buttons are available at Staples for $5. It was halarious. The actors had florescent wigs, green face makeup, black clothes, and the hairband with antanea on them. This matched the puppets we had used during Spelunkers. My actors are 6th thru 8th grade. We practice one hour each week. They are required to have all lines memorized the week before performance. This allows us to work on blocking and character. We have used other curriculum, and this one is one of the few that has a short script almost every week. It has been perfect for us. I have adult volunteers that host and do music. It's too bad that there will only be one year available.
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| Sounds great! And memorable!
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| OverFlowing (10/11/2007)
It's too bad that there will only be one year available.I couldn't agree more. Sounds like you went all out! |
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