Every night, you can look up into the sky and notice the changing shape of the moon! So let’s bring the moon indoors with this fun and simple puffy paint moon craft. Make your own glow in the dark puffy paint, with our easy puffy paint recipe. Pair it with a book about the moon for literacy and science, all in one!

GLOW IN THE DARK PUFFY PAINT MOON CRAFT FOR KIDS!

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GLOW IN THE DARK MOON

Explore the moon with homemade puffy paint the kids will love to mix up with you. Use this moon craft to introduce the phases of the Moon for kids too. While you’re at it, make sure to check out these other fun space activities.

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GLOW IN THE DARK MOON CRAFT

Let’s make glowing in the dark puffy paint with shaving cream for this fun moon craft! Let’s get kids get painting their own glow in the dark moon, and learn some simple astronomy in the process.

Add this moon theme activity pack to help learn about the moon phases, too!

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Moon Phases

YOU WILL NEED:

  • White paper plates
  • Foam shaving cream
  • White glue
  • Glow in the dark paint
  • Paintbrushes
  • Bowl and mixing utensils
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HOW TO MAKE GLOW IN THE DARK PUFFY PAINT MOON

1: In a mixing bowl, measure and add 1 cup of shaving cream.

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2: Using 1/3 cup, fill almost to the top with glue, leaving room for a tablespoon or so of glow paint and pour the glue mixture into the shaving cream. Mix together well with a spatula.

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3: Use a paintbrush to paint your homemade glow in the dark puffy paint onto the paper plates. Leave it to dry overnight. You can even leave spots for craters!

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4: Cut the plates into different Moon phases if desired when they are dry.

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5: Place the Moon in the light, and then bring it into a dark room to watch it glow.

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PUFFY PAINT TIPS

This is a fun project for kids as young as toddler age and all the way up to teens! Puffy paint is NOT edible! Sponge brushes are a good alternative to regular paintbrushes for this project.

If you are going to be making the different phases of the Moon, you may want to cut out the shapes first!

WHAT ARE THE PHASES OF THE MOON?

To start, the phases of the Moon are the different ways the Moon looks from Earth over the course of about a month!

As the moon orbits around the Earth, the half of the moon that faces the sun will be lit up. The different shapes of the lit up portion of the moon that can be seen from the Earth are known as the phases of the Moon.

Each phase repeats itself every 29.5 days. There are 8 phases that the moon goes through.

HERE ARE THE MOON PHASES (IN ORDER)

NEW MOON: A new moon cannot be seen because we are looking at the unlit half of the Moon.

WAXING CRESCENT: This is when the Moon looks like a crescent and gets bigger in size from one day to the next.

FIRST QUARTER: Half of the lit portion of the Moon is visible.

WAXING GIBBOUS: This occurs when more than half of the lit portion of the Moon can be seen. It gets bigger in size day by day.

FULL MOON: The entire lit portion of the moon can be seen!

WANING GIBBOUS: This occurs when more than half of the lit portion of the Moon can be seen but it gets smaller in size day by day.

LAST QUARTER: Half of the lit portion of the Moon is visible.

WANING CRESCENT: This is when the Moon looks like a crescent and gets smaller in size from one day to the next.

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