Today I have found some "space crafting" : ) projects for you. Make Your Own Space Station is a series of cards that show you how to built some cute little space toys. It seems to have been part of of series of crafting cards of projects you could make from household objects. Probably a little strange but also a lot of fun to try.
Make Your Own Space Station. (Spears Games Project Cards.) New York: Ace Publishing. (10 cards.) 1970.
Here is another quick post for you. Space puzzles!
I last shared these in 2016 so it is about time to bring them back.
These were classroom puzzles (although they were probably owned by kids at home too). They were mostly for Kindergarten-2nd grade kids and were "educational" as well as fun. They are labeled as produced by the "Judy" company and were part of a "Space Exploration" series.
I really liked them when I found one. These 11 Judy puzzles are all the ones I was able to chase down. There are several about early space flight and a number about the Moon landing.
From the same 1953 Women's Day issue comes my final posting from this "space packed" issue. For an early Christmas present to yourself or a craft project to make the perfect present for someone else, here are the plans for making some nifty space helmets!
A fun piece of ephemera today, a Mickey Mouse Pencil box from 1935. People forget about the craze for Mickey Mouse in the 1930s, but they also forget how the revolutionary idea of rockets taking people into space was also a current "fad". This captures in a whimsical way for children how people could travel into space. There were a series of similar Dixon Mickey Mouse pencil boxes on different topics but this one particularly caught my eye (of course).
From the Weston's label inside they may have been a promotional/premium item with these crackers.
Happy 2021! Here is a game for you to play in case you didn't get what you wanted over the holidays.
The Space Race card game was created by the Ed-U-Cards Co, NY. It is a little too early for me to have played it but it is one of the first popular uses of the term "Space Race" and may have influenced space-happy children to think about who would get to space first. Rather than explain the rules, here is the sheet below. Basically first person to get all the destination cards 1-10 wins (but there are set-backs along the way).
