Lunar Eclipse Night Sky Wreath Craft

A Lunar Eclipse Night Sky Wreath is a great lunar eclipse craft for kids.

You can make a night sky and have the stars and the red moon for the total lunar eclipse. It is a simple way to learn about the lunar eclipse and how it is different from the solar eclipse.

A simple craft to set up and make with kids of different ages.

Lunar Eclipse Night Sky Wreath Craft - a fun blood red moon in a night sky wreath for the lunar eclipse A simple lunar eclipse craft for kids. 3Dinosaurs.com

The Lunar Eclipse Night Sky Wreath Craft is a great addition to the lunar eclipse and the wreath crafts on the site.

What is a Wreath Craft

A wreath is a collection of items around a circle. It can be used as a seasonal decoration around a house.

Lunar Eclipse Night Sky Wreath Craft

This is a fun lunar eclipse night sky wreath with fun stars in the sky and a blood red moon for a total lunar eclipse. This is a simple craft you can make with kids and talk about while the moon is red.

Lunar Eclipse Books to Read

There are not a lot of books with just the lunar eclipse. But these books have information about solar and lunar in them.

Eclipse: Our Sky’s Most Dazzling Phenomenon has information about solar eclipse and lunar eclipse! And it is great to learn about both but you can read about one of ther other sa well.

The Sun Plays with the Moon: An Imaginative Introduction to the Lunar and Solar Eclipses is a fun story about the sun and moon playing and fun way to make make a lunar eclipse and a solar eclipse.

You can also fine lunar eclipse videos to watch as well. Since a Lunar Eclipse happens at night.

What we used to make the Lunar Eclipse Night Sky Wreath Craft

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paper plate
large paint brush
watercolors
3 sizes of start punches
1 1/2 inch circle punch
yellow or gold glitter paper
white cardstock
oil pastels – colors of reds and oranges

How we made the Lunar Eclipse Night Sky Wreath Craft

You can see the steps below that we used to make the Lunar Eclipse Night Sky wreath craft.

Step 1: Paint the Paper Plate Black with Watercolors

We started out with painting the paper plate black. You can see that we cut the center of the plate. And we kept the center to use to not paint on the table.

You want to paint the whole paper plate black.

Step 2: Color the Red Lunar Eclipse Moon

Next we worked on making the red moon with oil pastels. We use a circle punched out to see how big of an area that we needed to color. You can color a bigger area than you need for the circle.

We mixed the three colors to make the red color for the moon.

Step 3: Punch Out the Red Moon

You can punch out the red moon next. You are going to use the 1 1/2 circle punch to punch out the circle. You can see below how it is punched out after we did the coloring.

It makes a fun red circle.

A fun trick to get the moon to be all red when you punch is to turn the punch upside down so you can see the circle you are punching out.

For younger kids have them color a larger area.

You can skip this step with younger kids and punch our red circles for them to go on the wreath.

Step 4: Punch Out the Stars

You can then start punching out the three sizes of colors of stars. We have three size in a set we got and it works great for this wreath craft.

You want to have the mix of sizes to be the different brightness of the stars. You can put then out ahead of time for younger kids. But a lot of kids find punching the stars fun.

Step 5: Glue on the Red Moon

You are going to place your moon on your wreath. It can be the top, on the sides. Anywhere on the wreath is just fine.

Step 6 And Final Step: Glue on the Stars

You are going to glue on the stars on the wreath.

You can place the glue on the wreath rather than the stars. You can place several different dots of glue on the wreath. This is so much easier than trying to put glue on the stars and then the wreath.

Then we place the stars on the glue on the wreath. With the smaller start it is so much easier to place on the glue. And you can add a mix of what stars you think work best for your lunar eclipse wreath.

Final look at our Lunar Eclipse Night Sky Wreath Craft

More Lunar Eclipse Night Sky Activities for Kids

Lunar Eclipse Weekly Packs have six levels of learning for kids. These are easy no-prep printables to use to learn about lunar eclipses. They have five days of printables with lunar eclipse and moon themes in each pack.

Lunar Eclipse Coloring Pages is a simple coloring page for a total lunar eclipse with pictures and simple phases of the lunar eclipse at the bottom.

Eclipse Recording Sheet Printables has pages that can be used for the solar eclipse and one for lunar eclipse as well. A fun recording sheet to use.

Lunar Eclipse is a fun painting you can make with kids for a lunar eclipse. And it is fun to do and talk about how the moon is red during the lunar eclipse.

Total Lunar Eclipse Bookmarks has the sequencing on each for the total lunar eclipse that you can use with kids. A fun science bookmark to use with learning about the moon.

Check out all the fun Solar Eclipse and Lunar Eclipses Printables & Crafts on 3 Dinosaurs.