Outer Space worksheets

Here are nineteen colouring pages built around rockets, planets and the creatures who might travel among them. A astronaut floats weightless against a starry background, a ringed planet sits alongside a careful rendering of Earth, and there's a lighter, funnier side too, with a space dog in a helmet and a space cat astronaut kitted out for the cosmos. Between the realistic and the playful, most children will find something that suits their mood. Line weights and detail levels vary enough to cover a good age range, from simple, chunky outlines for a three-year-old with a fat crayon to busier scenes with more shapes and smaller sections for a five- or six-year-old working on control and patience. Colouring them gives children a reason to talk about what's out there, notice patterns like stripes on a planet or dots for stars, and practise staying within lines at their own pace, no correct answers required.