Crafts & activities

Make an astronaut helmet for your teddy bear

All brave space adventurers need a helmet if they’re to journey into the deepest, darkest depths of the universe! Help your little one craft a helmet for their (teddy) commander with this fun and simple step-by-step guide from Quick Crafts for Parents Who Think They Hate Craft.

Emma Scott-Child
Make an astronaut helmet for your teddy bear

How to make:

1. Take the tissues out of the box. The hole that they come out of will be where teddy looks out of the helmet.

Make an astronaut helmet for your teddy bear

2. This is a grown-up job - cut another hole in the side of the box, next to the panel with the original hole, to put teddy’s head through.

Make an astronaut helmet for your teddy bear

3. Place the box in the middle of a large piece of foil. Gather the foil and pull it up the side of the box and fold it around the rim of the window.

Make an astronaut helmet for your teddy bear

4. Press it down around the rim of the window to make it neat.

Make an astronaut helmet for your teddy bear

5. Curl the pipe cleaner around your finger, leaving one end straight.

Make an astronaut helmet for your teddy bear

6. This is a grown-up job - Carefully make a hole in the top of the helmet with scissors.

Make an astronaut helmet for your teddy bear

7. Push the pipe cleaner through, bend, and tape it inside of the box.

Make an astronaut helmet for your teddy bear

8. Break the foil on the bottom, where the head hole is. Bend the foil around the opening, so it stays put. Now put it on your teddy’s head!

Make an astronaut helmet for your teddy bear

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