Little Lambs Exploring the Heavens Lapbook is an engaging year-long study on astronomy from a Creation perspective. 

Little Lambs Exploring the Heavens Lapbook provides lessons for the entire school year. You will read a read a well-written, beautifully illustrated picture book, enjoy a hands-on activity, and make a booklet for your astronomy lapbook.  

Made with love, each booklet is designed to awe students with the power and majesty of God the Creator who made the earth. 

The themed study lasts all year with one lesson a week or however you want to use the material. After all, you are the teacher. A typical lesson has a picture book to read aloud, a hands-on astronomy lab, and a booklet to create.

Hands-on Learning Activities include: 
  • Earth on a Paper Spring
  • Sun, Moon, & Earth Paper Model
  • Earth Tilts & Turns
  • Play with Constellation Blocks
  • Make & Eat Edible Constellations
  • Play with Planet Blocks
  • Paper Plate Sun
  • Play with Element Blocks
  • Eclipse Activity
  • Play with a Solar Calculator
  • Moon Reflects Light of the Sun Activity
  • Oreo Phases of the Moon
  • Paper Plate Moons
  • Finger-Painted Paper Plate Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
  • Space Bingo
  • Paper Towel Roll Rocket
  • Rocket Picture
  • Make Lapbook Booklets

Lapbook Booklets include: 
  • On Day ? Booklet
  • Tilt & Turn Worksheet
  • Telescope
  • Stars
  • Galaxies
  • Comets
  • Meteors
  • Solar System
  • Our Helpful Sun
  • Solar Energy
  • Phases of the Moon
  • Moon
  • NASA
  • What Goes to Space
  • Apollo Program
  • Space Shuttle
  • International Space Station
  • Astronaut 

We suggest you go star gazing as a family once a month. 

Of course, this unit study is no longer ours as we give it to you. Please adapt it however you need to so that it will work for your family! 

Supplies Needed

​Crayons & Colored Pencils
Glue
String
4 Brass Fasteners (Brads)
​Aluminum Foil
Pretzel Sticks
Mini Marshmallows
Tape
10 - 9” White Paper Plate
8 Standard Clothespins (Yellow if Available)
8 Mini Clothespins (Yellow if Available)
Yellow Paint
Black Permanent Marker
Helium Balloon(s)
Air Inflated Balloon(s)
Hole Punch
Solar Calculator
Black Construction Paper
Flashlight
Finger Paint (Gray, White, Yellow, Light Blue, Green, Red, Brown, Tan, Bright Blue, Blue Green, Brown) 
Scissors
13” White Crepe Streamer
Paper Towel Roll
Colorful File Folder
Construction Paper in a Contrasting Color to the File Folder
Black, White, Yellow, Red, & Blue Construction Paper
Red and Orange Crepe Streamers, 12” each
Glitter Glue
Oreo Cookies
Uncle Goose Periodic Table Blocks (Available here) 
Uncle Goose Constellation Blocks (Available here)
Uncle Goose Planet Blocks (Available here)
Uncle Goose Moon Phase Blocks (Available here) 

Picture Books

You will need to borrow, purchase, or check out from the library the following picture books:
  • What Makes Day & Night by Franklin M. Branley 
  • Sunshine Makes the Seasons by Franklin M. Branley 
  • Caroline’s Comets by Emily Arnold McCully 
  • The Big Dipper by Franklin M. Branley 
  • Glow in the Dark Constellations by C.E. Thompson 
  • Stars! Stars! Stars! By Bob Barner 
  • Good Night Galaxy by Adam Gamble and Mark Jasper 
  • Rand Riley’s Really Big Hit by Chris Van Dusen 
  • Hello World! Solar System by Bill McDonald 
  • I Am the Sun by Rebecca & James McDonald 
  • The Sun is My Favorite Star by Frank Asch 
  • Eclipse Miracle by Sand Sheff 
  • Berenstain Bears On the Moon by Stan & Jan Berenstain 
  • I Am the Moon by Rebecca & James McDonald 
  • On the Moon by Anna Milbourne and Benji Davies 
  • I Am Earth by Rebecca & James McDonald 
  • My First Book of the Planets by Elizabeth Winthrop 
  • Mission to MARS by Franklin M. Branley 
  • Looking at the Planets by Melvin Berger 
  • There’s No Place Like Space! All About Our Solar System by Tish Rabe 
  • Planet Name Game by Tish Rabe 
  • Roaring Rockets by Tony Mitton 
  • Laika the Space Dog by Jeni Wittrock
  • Let’s Go to the Moon by Janice Knudsen Wheat
  • Astronaut Living in Space by Kate Hayden
  • The International Space Station by Franklin M. Branley
  • Mousetronaut by Mark Kelly

Where to Purchase

​Purchase the E-book,
 Little Lambs Explore the Heavens Lapbook, on our new website, PowerlineProd or PayHip or TeachersPayTeachers.

Series: Teach STEM the Fun Way, Units & Lapbook
Author: Meredith Curtis 
Publisher: Powerline Productions
Paperback: 165 pages
Age/Grade: Preschool & Elementary ​

​This Lapbook was Created with Love!