Use the FREE Astronauts to Earth printable game boards to practice colors, numbers, & shapes! Pair with Education Cubes for even more FUN!
When my boys were little, they loved learning about space. Spaceships. Rockets. Astronauts. Planets. The moon and stars! They were intrigued by everything space-related! So, I decided to make a special space-themed game board to go along with our Space unit. I call it, Astronauts to Earth!
The Astronauts to Earth downloadable PDF file includes five different game boards to help reinforce the following concepts: numbers, colors, and shapes. You can use the two blank game boards to fill in any information that you would like!
What you need to play the games:
You need three basic items to play the games – the gameboards, a writing utensil, and dice. But, I’ll be more specific so that you know exactly what we used and how we played the games. First, here are the supplies we used:
- Astonauts to Earth game board (scroll to the end of the blog post to download)
- dry erase markers
- Education Cubes (with the Spaceship Color insert cards)
Astronauts to Earth Game Set-up Instructions:
Now, I don’t like to waste money, especially when it comes to printables for the kids. Therefore, to save on ink and paper, I laminated the game board so that the boys could reuse it as many times as they’d like.
If you don’t have a laminator, you could slide the game board into a page protector.
Once I laminated the game and slid the Spaceship Color insert cards into our Education Cubes, it was time to play!
How to Use the Game Boards:
The games are super easy to play. Roll the cube or dice and mark off the appropriate cloud beginning at the respective spaceship.
Continue marking off clouds until all the astronauts get back to Earth (i.e. all of the clouds are marked off.)
Super simple – but super fun for little learners!
Space-themed Alphabet Books:
If you’re using the Astronauts to Earth game boards as part of a Space unit study, you’re probably looking for some exciting space-themed books! While there are lots to choose from, here are some ABC-themed space books to add to your collection.
Space-themed Math Books:
I love using living math books to help teach, review, and reinforce math skills. Here are some space-themed living math books to add to your space lessons.
More Space-themed Activities:
Want to add more space-themed activities for your young learners? Here are some really cool, really fun space-themed activities you may want to try.
Who doesn’t love Highlights magazine? I have vivid memories of the excitement of finding an un-used Highlights magazine at the doctor’s office! And the Space Activity workbook below includes games for learning, solar system coloring, dot-to-dot, mazes, word search and more!
These sticker books below look like so much fun! I’m certain my kids would have loved using them! With each book, kids create 10 space-themed pictures with stickers! The Paint by Stickers book even includes Glow-in-the-Dark Stickers!
Speaking of glow in the dark stickers – am I the only one who actually had a glow-in-the-dark solar system on their bedroom ceiling as a child? Oh, the memories!
Glow in The Dark Stars for Ceiling, Glow in The Dark Stars and Moon Wall Decals
More Game Boards to Download:
If you like the Astronauts to Earth game boards, check out my other FREE printable game boards:
- FREE Printable Racing Racecars Game
- FREE Printable Princesses & Frog Game
- FREE Printable Flap, Flap, & Fly Game
Get the FREE Astronauts to Earth Game Boards HERE:
This post was originally published on March 14, 2011.
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hey, i would love the astronauts to earth game and the up up and away game. but even after subscriing, i cannot get either link to work… is there something i am missing?
thanks so much for any help and advice
Thank you for your patience! I’ve fixed the download link for the Astronauts to Earth game boards. Everything should be working now!
I’m having a really hard time downloading the link. It keeps linking me back to this page. I went to the link you posted in a previous reply below and it is still looping.
Hi Chelsea! Thank you for your patience! I’ve fixed the download link for the Astronauts to Earth game. Everything should be working now!
You know, I COMPLETELY forgot that I had another game that I was working on (with more colors)! I will try to get it completed for you!
Love, love, love this game!! My students will love to use it. I have just printed off the edu. cubes for the color game and didn’t realize there were more colors!! Yea!! I was wondering if there was a spaceship color board to go with the other colors?
Keep up the good work!!!
Hi Anna! It will direct you to a page on my actual website (as opposed to my blog): http://www.mamajenn.com/MamaJenn/AstronautsToEarth.html
Once you are on that page, scroll down to the bottom of the page and you will see a download link.
Hope that helps!
I have been trying to print this game and it keeps linking back to a different page.
these are really cute! thanks for sharing.
Adorable! And we’re just beginning our Space unit this week, thanks!
Blessings,
Valerie
Pssst: My cubes are in the mail! I can’t wait for them to show up!