DLTK's Crafts for Kids
Paper Plate Spaceship Porthole Craft

This paper plate porthole provides the perfect opportunity for kids to "see what's under the sea". It's a good craft for an outer space theme.

Materials:

paper plate,
silver, white, gold or grey paint and paint brush
cheerios -- you need about a dozen for the craft and, if your kids are anything like mine, half a box for nibbling on while making the craft!
a drinking straw or a pretzel
scissors,
glue,
one piece of blue construction paper or cardstock
clear plastic (we used the clear half of a large ziploc bag)
paper,
printer,
something to color with

Instructions:

Cut a circle from the center of a paper plate.
If making a porthole: For the handle:
- Glue cheerios to each end of a 2 inch length of a straw or a pretzel and then glue to the paper plate
  
  or
- glue a milk carton cap and then glue to the paper plate.
Glue cheerios around the outside of the plate as decorative “bolts”
Paint the whole plate, including the cheerios silver, grey, white or gold.
Let dry.
Optional: Glue a piece of clear plastic inside the paper plate to cover your porthole (the clear half of large freezer Ziploc bags work well for this… I find saran wrap a bit too clingy and difficult to work with)

Print out the template of choice.
Color the template pieces if using the B&W version.
Cut out the template.
Glue the paper plate over the template so you can see it through the hole.

Templates:

Close the template window after printing to return to this screen.
Set page margins to zero if you have trouble fitting the template on one page (FILE, PAGE SETUP or FILE, PRINTER SETUP in most browsers).

Template (alien): (color) or (B&W)

Template (astronaut): (color) or (B&W)

Template (earth): (color) or (B&W)

Cosmonaut Sergei K. Krikalev, flight engineer for Expedition One, is positioned at a port hole on the Zvezda service module of the International Space Station.

Source: NASA International Space Station Imagery

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