If you’ve got a kid that loves space or it’s something that you’re learning about in your classroom then you need to grab our free build an astronaut printable.
Download this fun cut and paste craft and make your own paper astronaut ready to explore the solar system, and beyond! You’ll find a choice of faces or you can draw your own.
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Build an Astronaut Printable
Space is always a big and popular topic for kids and there’s so much to learn about and inspire them with planets, rockets and the possibility of an alien encounter!
Our free printable is a great way for kids to get hands on while practicing coloring and scissor skills. They can choose from boy or girl faces, leave their astronaut’s helmet blank, draw in a picture or even add a photo of themselves.
Looking for something a bit more basic to decorate? Make sure to check out our astronaut templates with three different printable designs.
Craft Supplies
- Astronaut craft PDF
- White paper
- Scissors
- Glue
- Colored markers or coloring pencils
Cut and Paste Astronaut Craft
Start by printing the PDF file onto white paper. If your child is likely to play with their finished craft then you might want to print it onto cardstock to make it a bit more sturdy and durable but if you’ll just be displaying it at home or one a bulletin board in your classroom then normal printer paper should be fine.
Next it’s time to grab your coloring materials and color in your astronaut and their equipment. You only need to color in the parts you’ll be using so just go with the face that you want to use.
If you’re drawing your own face in or if you want to stick a photo into your astronaut’s helmet then now is the time to do that.
Use your scissors to cut out the separate parts following the dotted lines around them for guidance. Again you only need the parts that you’ll be using so don’t worry about the additional faces.
Now it’s time to make your spacesuit, take the main body part and glue the space helmet to the top and stick the legs, arms and space boots on as indicated on the printable.
Next up we’ll be adding the extra’s that your astronaut is going to need so let’s add some glue onto their backpack (life support system) and then attach that to their back.
Add a little glue to each end of the oxygen supply and then stick it so that one end will be attached to their spacesuit and the other end goes around the back of their backpack.
You also need to their control unit to the front of their spacesuit.
Finally we want to see what your brave astronaut looks like so glue their face into their helmet and they’re finished and ready for some intergalactic adventures!
More Space Crafts for Kids
We love an outer space theme here and over the years I’ve shared lots of ideas with both free printables and easy art projects to try.
This pom pom printed moon craft is a really nice and easy activity especially if you have preschoolers or kids in kindergarten, plus who doesn’t love a craft that involves paper plates?!
This rocket ship template is a great one for encouraging creativity or as a starting place for a writing prompt – where would you fly to? there are six different designs to choose from and lots of ideas for ways that you can use these.
Finally our space activity sheets are always popular and includes tracing, creating your own aliens and a maze amongst other things.
Grab our cut and paste solar system printable and help kids learn about the order of the planets and their names.
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I absolutely love your printable. My granddaughter loves to color and put them together. Thank you.
Deneen Tressler
The printables are super cute and so helpful with my almost 4 year old toddler she loves coloring and building with them each day its a huge help to keep her busy and creative. Thank you!
Oh that sounds lovely! Thank you so much for sharing x
This will be amazing when teaching the letter sound “a”