Moon Landing 50th Anniversary Party

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, we decided have a little party. 

I started by making an astronaut photo board. 

I created two "time capsules" for the kids to open. In the capsules, I put moon sand (2 cups flour, 1/2 cup baby oil, and a little bit of silver paint), some rocks to resemble moon rocks, some rocket crafts, a star finder, dehydrated food, a diagram of the space shuttle, an astronaut training guide, NASA t-shirts, rocket launchers, name tags, and the local newspapers that reprinted the cover of the paper from 1969. 

I bought a couple of yards of glow in the dark fabric from Joann's and used that as a tablecloth and photo backdrop. We checked out some moon books from the district library and put together a lego shuttle. 

We turned this cookie cake into a moon. 

The kids put on their shirts and name tags for a few photos.

We ate rocket Popsicles and went outside to use the rocket launcher and balloon launchers. 

I put hair gel and food coloring inside a ziploc bag and taped it inside a cardboard box. This became the scanner for entry into Mission Control. 

For Mission Control, I went around the house and found calculators, remotes, buttons, lights, a microphone, levers, circuits, an old laptop, etc and put them on a piece of cardboard covered with a tablecloth. 

We finished the night by reading the picture books and watching some footage of Apollo 11.