Outer Space Scratch Art:
This fun favourite will have your kids busy for ages. Kids may get a little impatient while waiting for the paint to dry, so it might be a good idea to space this activity across two days. 

Materials:
1 x A4 white card
Warm & cool oil pastels
Black acrylic paint
Brush or sponge
Sharp pencil or wooden skewer
A4 scrap paper
Pencil

Colour in your A4 card with warm and cool oil pastels. Make sure no white card shows through, and the oil pastels are applied thickly. 

Paint over the oil pastels with black acrylic paint. Make sure you have a even covering of paint and you can't see too much of the oil pastel colour anymore.

Leave to dry. It may take a few hours.

While the paint dries, get your child to draw a rough picture on A4 paper of what they'd like to have in their outer space picture. Remind them that they can't rub out any lines they do into the scratch artwork. 

Once the paint has dried. Scratch a border around the edge of the artwork with the wooden skewer or sharp pencil. Then draw your rocket ship, planets, stars, aliens etc. onto your page. Gently shake off the scratchings, don't brush them with your hands.

Enjoy creating this fun art piece!