Printable packs · 🚀 Week 5 of 52

Outer Space — printable activity pack

Rockets, planets and shooting stars — and not only on the cover. The word search, the scramble, the crossword, the dot-to-dot and the coloring page are all built out of the space theme. It suits the child who has started asking what is past the moon, and it drops straight into a school space unit or a wet Saturday that needs filling without a screen.

Four levels of the same theme — ages 3⁠–⁠5, 6⁠–⁠8, 9⁠–⁠12 and a harder grown-up level — so a mixed-age class or family works on the same puzzles, each at their own level. 11 pages, US Letter PDF, ready to print at home or in a classroom.

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Pay as a guest — no account needed. You get the Outer Space pack at the level you pick, as a PDF, straight after checkout, and you can print it as often as you like for your own family or class.

Three pages from this pack

Cover of the Outer Space pack for ages 6⁠–⁠8: the pack title, a level badge reading Ages 6⁠–⁠8, a line-drawn rocket with two fins, a round porthole and a flame at the tail, and the list of what is inside.Word search from the Outer Space pack for ages 6⁠–⁠8: a square grid of capital letters, with the six words to find printed underneath — rocket, planet, comet, orbit, galaxy, saturn.Dot-to-dot page from the Outer Space pack: eleven numbered dots on an otherwise empty page, joining up into a rocket.

Rendered from the Outer Space PDF itself, at ages 6⁠–⁠8. The puzzles are generated, so your copy’s grids and maze won’t be these exact ones.

What the hardest level is actually for

ASTRONAUT, TELESCOPE, METEORITE, GRAVITY, NEBULA, ECLIPSE — that's the whole 9⁠–⁠12 list, and it's the reason to buy this one for an older child rather than a younger one. Those six turn up in the first fortnight of almost any primary astronomy topic, and hunting them in a grid is a cheap way to get the spelling to stick before the worksheet arrives. Smaller siblings get SUN, MOON, STAR, JET, SKY and UFO instead: sayable, drawable, already theirs. The dot-to-dot is eleven dots, about the right amount of patience for a five-year-old at the end of a long day.

Try the Outer Space pack free

The free sample is this theme: a 6-page Outer Space PDF with the cover, a mini sudoku, the word search, the maze and a coloring page, plus a page about the full pack. No account, no email.

What’s in the Outer Space pack

  1. Cover, with the theme and the level on it
  2. Mini sudoku, sized for the level
  3. Themed word search
  4. Word scramble
  5. Mini crossword
  6. Maze
  7. Dot-to-dot
  8. Coloring page
  9. Trace-and-write practice
  10. Answer key: the sudoku, the word search, the word scramble and the crossword
  11. A last page about the weekly subscription, with a discount code

11 pages, US Letter PDF, ready to print at home or in a classroom.

The answer key solves the sudoku, the word search, the word scramble and the crossword. The maze doesn’t have an answer — a maze doesn’t need one.

The words your child will be hunting for

These are the words each level’s puzzles are built from: the word search grid is filled with them and prints them under it as the list to find, the scramble jumbles up to seven of them one per line, and the crossword interlocks as many as will fit. Same theme at every level, different words — that’s what makes a mixed-age table work.

Ages 3⁠–⁠5
preschool–kindergarten
SUN · STAR · MOON · SKY · UFO · JET
Ages 6⁠–⁠8
about grades 1⁠–⁠3
ROCKET · PLANET · COMET · ORBIT · GALAXY · SATURN
Ages 9⁠–⁠12
about grades 4⁠–⁠7
ASTRONAUT · TELESCOPE · METEORITE · GRAVITY · NEBULA · ECLIPSE
Grown-ups
the hardest level
ASTRONAUT · TELESCOPE · METEORITE · GRAVITY · ECLIPSE · NEBULA · ROCKET · PLANET

The grown-up level isn’t written separately: it’s the longest words from the 6⁠–⁠8 and 9⁠–⁠12 lists, on a bigger grid and a harder sudoku.

Where it sits in the year

Week 5 of the 52-week calendar, so it comes round around the end of January. Subscribers get it that week as part of the weekly pack; on this page you can buy it on any day of the year, and the free sample above is always this theme.

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