Paper Plate Alien Craft For Kids

Today we are making an alien craft! Kids of all ages will have so much fun making this super silly alien craft. It uses basic crafting supplies and is so much fun to make! This simple paper plate craft allows you to make a handprint alien and a flying saucer! This UFO craft is out of this world! You can make this alien craft at home or in the classroom.

Alien Craft

Using paper plate and acrylic paint you can make a fun and messy UFO craft that looks silly and neat. Kids will be able to practice fine motor skills, explore colors, and make creative and fun aliens!

This alien paper plate craft can also be easily turned into a puppet which would also promote pretend play. It’s up to you whether or not you want it used for that purpose or to fit another need in your lesson plan. You could also use it as a letter A craft as well. So, without further ado, let’s make this fun alien craft!

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Supplies Needed To Make This Alien Craft

How To Make This Alien Craft

Step 1

Trace around half the paper plate. Make 2 lines on both sides and around the circle in the middle.

Cut along the line.

Step 2

Paint your hand green and press it in the middle.

Fill in any blank areas with green paint.

Step 3

Paint a black hole where the alien sits in his flying saucer.

Step 4

Paint the rest of the ship yellow.

Step 5

Glue googly eyes to the eye stalks of your alien.

Step 6

Add blue and red blinking lights. We used a pattern for this. And you’re done!

How To Make This Alien Craft Your Own

Just like all our crafts you can make this alien craft your own. You can do things like:

• Use small pompoms as lights instead of adding different colored paint.
• Add a craft stick or popsicle stick to the bottom to make this alien craft a puppet.
• Add stickers of planets and stars to your spacecrafts.
• Instead of painting your flying saucer, decorate it with markers.
• Use sequins or faux gems to make fancy lights and shiny bits on your alien spacecraft.
• Add pipe cleaners around the edge of
• our alien spaceship to make it look like it has different color lights.
• Make the aliens different colors.
• Add silly things like feathers, cloth, string etc to your aliens.

Our Experience With This Alien Craft

My kids love aliens. Not like the grainy footage type aliens or like those free videos of people allegedly recording aliens, but silly aliens like the Martian from Bugs Bunny, Space Jam, Monsters vs Aliens, and the ET movie. Which is a must-see by the way if you or your kids have never seen it. It really is a fun movie.

Anyway, after watching ET again my kids wanted to make aliens. And while I’m not talented enough to come up with an ET craft, I decided this paper plate craft was simple enough my youngest and oldest kids could both do it with ease and still have fun.

And they did! They made their aliens look silly and even named them. It was a good craft that was easy to do and budget-friendly which is always a plus. So, I hope your family has as much fun making this alien craft as mine did.

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How did your alien craft turn out?