Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

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Twinkle Twinkle Little Star       
Shape Maker

Have endless fun making shapes out of straws.
Easy to set up and use time and again. Let your
imagination run wild. Our downloadable templates
include parts for making up straw people and other
things as well.

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Twinkle Twinkle Little Star       
Lamp

To make this magical star lamp download and
print out it's instructions so that you can look at
the night sky on the ceiling with your child.

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Twinkle Twinkle Little Star       
Mirror

Make a mirror fit for a princess or prince charming.
Download and print out the colour or black and
white versions of the front and back of this mirror.
Stick in between some tin foil and either stick
the mirror onto cardboard or laminate.
Feel free to decorate how you would like,
we use glitter, jewels, ribbons.

    

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Twinkle Twinkle 3d Stars       

Download and print out the coloured or colour
in your own black and white versions twice
so that you end up with four stars of each size.
Then pair up each star by placing back to back
either by gluing onto cardboard or putting
through a laminator. Then slot the double
sided stars together to make a 3d star.
Then tie each star together in a chain for
hanging.

    

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Twinkle Twinkle Little Star       
Mobile

Print out either the coloured or black and white
template to make and decorate this lovely mobile
with your child.

    

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Twinkle Twinkle Little Star       
Jewellery

A selection of stars and moons and other
shapes to print out ready to make jewellery
or hair accessories.

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Twinkle Twinkle Little Star       
Picture

This picture of a landscape is just waiting for
a star to be added to sparkle in the night sky.
Alternatively if you just want some large stars
to colour in print out the mobile black and white
template above.

Fun Facts, Links and even more Activities!

• Laura's Star
  
  
• Watch this beautiful Youtube video showing the internationally best selling children's book "Laura's Star" by Klaus Baumgart.
  
  
  
  If you enjoy this story you can then buy the book or you even have the choice of downloading an interactive app on Ipod, Ipad or Android. Just do a search in the App Store or Play Store for "Laura's Star" and it will come up.
• Shapes games
• Introduce your child to shapes including the star shape. There are numerous games on the computer, Ipad and Android but the quickest and easiest way is to first draw some shapes on paper. Then your child can try and trace over and even colour in.
• Some online shape games we like are found at Babytv.com and in particular the Shapes Train. If you want to have a look click on the picture below.
  
  
• When you want to finish off playing with shapes then why don't you suggest trying to make certain shapes with your child out of your hands. Squares, triangles and circles are easy but when you ask them to do Twinkle Twinkle Little Star as a shape that gets trickier! This shape is much better making together as a team. Once you have done this you can then tell your child what a star they are for helping and how much they are loved and that they are your special star!
• Let your child be a super star and make a microphone for them to sing into. This is an activity you can make in less than ten minutes. Roll up a ball of paper and then cover it in foil if you have some available. Put a hole through the middle of it (about the width of a finger) then stick or tie it onto a small tube of cardboard. We tied ours on with black wool and then we left a bit of the wool coming out of the microphone to make it look more realistic.
  
  
  
  You now have a homemade working microphone as your voice echoes down the tube. You can then have fun decorating it with your child how you like. Make one for each of you or take it in turns using it to sing a song or Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.
• Here are some facts about stars. Did you know that
• the nearest star to us is the sun.
• not all stars are white or yellow like our sun. The hottest stars are blue and the coolest stars are red.
• you can look back in time. This is because it takes a long time for starlight to reach earth. When we sing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star and are looking out at the brightest star in the sky we are probably looking at a star called Sirius, but Sirius is still very far away and it takes four years for its starlight to reach us. So when we are looking at it we are seeing how it was four years ago in the past.
• our sun is only 8 light minutes away.
• with telescopes you can see much greater distances and see stars that are much further away. The Hubble telescope is a telescope that is set out in space which gives us a much clearer view. Using the Hubble Telescope, you can see light from the Eagle Nebula, which takes 7,000 years to reach the Earth!
• Twinkle Twinkle Little Star is probably the best known and best loved poem in the English Language and was written by Jane Taylor (1783-1824). It was first called 'The Star' and appeared in 'Rhymes for the Nursery' published in 1806 which was a joint work written with her sister Ann. When the book first came out however Twinkle Twinkle Little Star was less popular than one of Ann's nursery rhymes entitled 'My Mother', but only Twinkle Twinkle Little Star has stood the test of time. It wasn't until 1838 that the lyrics from 'The Star' were first published with the tune in The Singing Master: First Class Tune Book.

Links

• http://www.planetarium.org.uk/planetaria.asp Click on this link to find Planetarium's near you.
• www.amazing-space.stsci.edu/resources/explorations
• www.bbc.co.uk/education/clips/znt6n39
• http://www.space.com/21702-sirius-brightest-star.html
• http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr162/lect/ cosmology/lightspeed.html

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