Pete the Cat Space Slime

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A fun, hands-on activity to pair with Pete the Cat: Out of This World! Kids will love making and playing with this Pete the Cat space slime!

This fun homemade slime recipe is perfect for your outer space activities. Children will love the story of Pete the Cat: Out of This World, and you’ll love how engaged they’ll be with this fun STEM activity.

As an added bonus, your kids will strengthen fine motor muscles as they mix and manipulate the slime.

Head to Amazon or your local bookstore to snag a copy of Pete the Cat: Out of This World, then give these fun book-based activities a try.

Pete the Cat Space Slime

When Pete heads off to space camp, he gets to float in zero gravity, build rockets, and even goes on an extraordinary interstellar mission that is out of this world—literally. Houston, ready to rock out with Pete the Cat!

The book-based activities below will help you extend the text in a meaningful way, and keep your students engaged after the story is over.

What You’ll Need

• Pete the Cat: Out of This World
• Space toys
• star confetti (optional)
• 4 oz. of Elmer’s school glue
• ½ tbsp. baking soda
• ¼ tbsp. contact lens solution
• Mixing bowl
• Mixing spoon
• Plastic craft mat

What You’ll Do

Read and discuss the story. Create space slime following the directions below.

Pour the entire bottle of glue into a mixing bowl.

Add the baking soda and stir.

Add the contact lens solution, and stir it until the slime begins to form.

Knead the slime wiht your hands until you get the desired slime consistency.

If the slime is too sticky, add ¼ tbsp of contact lens solution at a time until it’s no longer sticky.

Form a ball with the slime. Place it on a plastic mat for playtime with the space toys.

Add the star confetti, if desired. Kids can use small space toys to play with the slime.

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Space Themed Fine Motor Fun

After reading through the story of Pete the Cat: Out of This World, talk to your students about the outer space things Pete encounters in the book.

Build your child’s vocabulary with words like astronaut, rocket, planet, sun, Earth, and more. Then, print out a set of space-themed pom pom challenge mats.

They’ll strengthen fine motor skills as they use small colored pom poms to build a variety of space-themed objects like a rocket, a UFO, an alien, and more.

BOOKS ABOUT SPACE

Fill your book basket with a great collection of books about space. Most of these books can be found at your local library or used bookstore.

If you have a hard time finding them, you can order them through my Amazon affiliate links by clicking the images below.

 

Mae Jemison – Sometimes, we are faced with challenges that seem insurmountable. But with grit and hard work, one can achieve great things!

Little Kids First Big Book of Space – The book will explain basic concepts of space, beginning with what is most familiar to kids and expanding out into the universe.

My First Book of Planets – Get even the smallest astronomer excited for the big universe of space, from the bright and burning sun to our own blue Earth to ice-capped Pluto and every planet in between.