Many thanks to them for that! Well, I just have to repost their notes))

Original taken from shatlburan in How children see space

Today the whole world is celebrating the anniversary of the beginning of human exploration of a fundamentally new essence - the Cosmos! On April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin made a space flight for the first time in history and thus opened a new era of mankind.

An exhibition of children's drawings on a space theme has opened in Rostov today: We are descendants of Gagarin. Space relay-Rostov.

It was interesting to see how children imagine space, how they see the space future, what they expect from it and whether they dream of becoming astronauts.

There are many photos from the exhibition under the cut.

Figures can be conditionally divided into several categories. Some differed in the detailing of the technical part of the spacecraft:

(this one is generally done in pastel)

Others reflected the story:

Still others imagined everyday scenes of the cosmic future:

Space trains, railway station, spacecraft parking. The curtains on the windows of the train are great!

And here we can see orbital stores: plants and flowers, household appliances, honey. laboratory. I would venture to suggest that small buildings are fast food outlets: shawarma, tasty food, "coffee to go", etc.

Of course, it was not without aliens:

The title of the picture is "Hello friend!" It's nice that the children are in a peaceful mood. The culture of aggression has not yet ruined them. The theme of friendship and peaceful coexistence with aliens runs through all the drawings. There are no battle scenes anywhere.

Subtle humor and good imagination. Everything is perfect here!

Catching the stars

Attractions attached to the rings of Saturn.

Flying saucer with wheels!

Only NEVZ launched its space electric locomotive :)

Nebulae and landscapes:

And some just liked:

The ship and one spacesuit are made of foil.

A total of 152 drawings from 15 educational institutions in Rostov and the region are at the exhibition. There are many interesting works. The exhibition will be held from 12 to 20 April at the Rostov House of Creativity for Children and Youth (former Palace of Pioneers, Sadovaya, 53-55). Free admission.

The exhibition is important in that it actualizes the theme of space as such. Children fantasize and draw interesting stories. But it's sad that they stopped dreaming about space - to the question "who do you want to become?" none of the authors of the drawings answered "cosmonaut". Football player, lawyer, businessman ... Meanwhile, man and Humanity have a much higher purpose than business and football. It is necessary by all means to kindle the thirst for the expansion of space, to convey the value of this path. And the more active the space theme will sound on the agenda, the more chances we, earthlings, will have to return to the path of development and achieve outstanding results on a universal scale!

Happy Cosmonautics Day everyone!

Original taken from kopninantonbuf in Space dreams of Don schoolchildren

Children drew pictures, wrote stories within the framework of the All-Russian competition "We are the descendants of Gagarin - the space relay race", which is conducted by the public organization for the protection of the family "Parent All-Russian Resistance" in conjunction with the public movement "The Essence of Time".

The exhibition presents more than 150 works made by students from 20 educational institutions of Rostov-on-Don, Shakht, Kamensk-Shakhtinsky, Novocherkassk, as well as eleven stories (they can be read in the VK group dedicated to the exhibition.

“Every atom of our body
was once a star. "
Vincent Freeman

A week ago, on our creative instagram @miftvorchestvo, we launched a competition for the best performance of the task from the notebook "642 ideas what to draw". The task sounded simple - space. Many creative and creative works were published for the competition. You can see them all by tag. We publish the best works and give a step-by-step master class on how to learn how to draw space.

The best works for competition # 642ideikosmos

"If you can't fly into space, make it come to you." Photo by @ al.ex_kv.

"And when darkness sleeps beside you, And the morning is far away, I wanna hold your hand and guide you ..." Parov Stelar ft. Lilja Bloom - Shine. Photo by @julia_owlie.

Aren't they cool? 🙂

Step-by-step master class

If you did not participate in the competition, but also want to learn how to draw space, save yourself somewhere these step-by-step instructions on what to do and how to make it look bright and beautiful.

1. In order to draw the Universe, only 3-4 colors are enough. At least with that amount you can start. Important: the sheet for watercolor should be very dense so that it does not wrinkle from water and so that the paint spreads beautifully and evenly.

2. The outline can be drawn with a hard, simple pencil to indicate the area that you will wet with water. Wet some of the allotted space.

3. Apply paint to the wetted area. Try to keep the contours nice.

4. Wet the rest of the space with water and apply a different color of paint. Selectively paint bright spots throughout the design. The drawing must be wet for the paint to flow beautifully.

5. After the drawing is completely dry, apply the stars. This can be done with white or yellow paint using an old toothbrush.

6. Some stars can be drawn more carefully.

Photo for the master class from kitty-ink.tumblr.com.

If you sprinkle salt on a wet drawing, then the structure of the cosmos will turn out to be even more interesting. The salt will absorb some of the paint, and shaking it off after it dries completely, there will be beautiful white dots and clouds in place of the salt.

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Continuing the theme of space adventures. In this tutorial I will explain. I wonder when a man will be able to fly into space? I mean don't jump out to the moon and back. And there - into the depths of the universe. Or at least to Mars! Something is getting completely cramped on this planet ... Okay, let's leave this business to the scientists, and we'll start drawing! As an example of an astronaut, I chose this picture: It was a little shabby, apparently taken from an old Soviet book. But it won't hurt us, because we ourselves can draw a beautiful picture, right? Get down to business!

How to draw an astronaut with a pencil step by step

There are four steps ahead. Step one. At the top of the sheet, place a large round head. She is big because she is wearing a helmet. Draw two curved lines downward - this is the outline of the body. We will draw an astronaut in zero gravity. And this immediately sets his position. Let's draw the contours of the arms and legs. The spacesuit is wearing a belt. We outline the backpack over the shoulders. Step two. We begin to draw the details: the helmet, fingers, all sorts of bells and whistles on the "suit". Moreover, all the elements are large enough. Step three. Draw a hole for the eyes on the helmet and make it three-dimensional. Let's start drawing the shoes. Let's show the pocket-bag on the belt. Look carefully at the picture and add the missing piece on your sheet. Rivets, folds on the fingers, and more. Step four. Show the horizontal shading on the belts. Let's draw the shoes: a drawing on the sole, a fastener. The astronaut has a small electronic device on his thigh. Now let's outline the main elements of our drawing. Almost ready. You can "revive" our hero with the help of shading, or add color with the help of paints! I recommend another interesting lesson similar in topic.

“Every atom of our body
was once a star. "
Vincent Freeman

A week ago, on our creative instagram @miftvorchestvo, we launched a competition for the best performance of the task from the notebook "642 ideas what to draw". The task sounded simple - space. Many creative and creative works were published for the competition. You can see them all by tag. We publish the best works and give a step-by-step master class on how to learn how to draw space.

The best works for competition # 642ideikosmos

"If you can't fly into space, make it come to you." Photo by @ al.ex_kv.

"And when darkness sleeps beside you, And the morning is far away, I wanna hold your hand and guide you ..." Parov Stelar ft. Lilja Bloom - Shine. Photo by @julia_owlie.

Aren't they cool? 🙂

Step-by-step master class

If you did not participate in the competition, but also want to learn how to draw space, save yourself somewhere these step-by-step instructions on what to do and how to make it look bright and beautiful.

1. In order to draw the Universe, only 3-4 colors are enough. At least with that amount you can start. Important: the sheet for watercolor should be very dense so that it does not wrinkle from water and so that the paint spreads beautifully and evenly.

2. The outline can be drawn with a hard, simple pencil to indicate the area that you will wet with water. Wet some of the allotted space.

3. Apply paint to the wetted area. Try to keep the contours nice.

4. Wet the rest of the space with water and apply a different color of paint. Selectively paint bright spots throughout the design. The drawing must be wet for the paint to flow beautifully.

5. After the drawing is completely dry, apply the stars. This can be done with white or yellow paint using an old toothbrush.

6. Some stars can be drawn more carefully.

Photo for the master class from kitty-ink.tumblr.com.

If you sprinkle salt on a wet drawing, then the structure of the cosmos will turn out to be even more interesting. The salt will absorb some of the paint, and shaking it off after it dries completely, there will be beautiful white dots and clouds in place of the salt.

On our creative instagram @miftvorchestvo, we will regularly hold notebook contests “642 ideas, what to draw”, “642 ideas, what to write about” and “642 ideas, what else to write about” (new!). Subscribe to keep abreast of everything creatively interesting and creatively fun.

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So the month of April has come ... with the hope of warmth and a bright sun, with blossoming and joy ... Very soon the world will celebrate the Day of Cosmonautics. This is a holiday that includes important events and the greatest discoveries, achievements of human civilization and the discovery of inaccessible secrets and worlds.

At different times, the children and I conducted various activities on the topic of Space, links to some of them will be at the end of the article and in. And today I invite you and your children to arm yourself with pencils and paints and go to draw space!

Hooray! I announce the opening new heading "Learning to draw" and I invite you to meet the artist Yulia, who shared her drawing skills with us.

How to draw space in stages

Drawings on the theme of space are a frequent task in April in schools and kindergartens. Julia offers us two versions of the space theme for different ages: for preschoolers and primary school students.

I know that many parents strongly oppose drawing templates and examples. But I am also convinced that in order to learn to draw, sometimes you need a push, an example, by embodying which, the child will believe in himself and begin to reveal his capabilities and talents. Let's try?

Drawing "Rocket in space" for children 4-5 years old.

The drawing is so simple and light that it seems to me that it does not need additional descriptions. However, if the video format of the lesson is more convenient for you, then watch this video:

Drawing on the theme "Space" for children 6-7 years old.

And here is the video MK of the rocket drawing, posted on our:

These are the simple and accessible drawings about space that the artist Julia offered us today. And I am grateful to her for her beautiful work.

How do you like these drawings about space? And what do you and your children like to draw on a given topic? By the way, you can send your drawings on this MK to me by mail, I will post them in this article.

What to draw for Cosmonautics Day?

For Cosmonautics Day, of course, you need to draw a rocket, space and stars, planets. You can also draw an astronaut.

There is also such a drawing, you can paint with plasticine or colored pencils.



You can draw a picture like this



there is such



And how to draw, you can see in the video

By the day of cosmonautics, April 12, you can draw an astronaut, a rocket, a spaceship, planets, space, the moon, dogs - Belka and Strelka, a view of the planet Earth from space, an artificial Earth satellite, a space station.

By the day of cosmonautics, you can draw a rocket and decorate it with not stars and a planet.

Stage 1: draw the rocket body by drawing 2 parallel lines up and connecting with a line below;

Stage 2: at the top of the parallel lines, we connect using a triangle without a base. Further, in the lower part, draw 3 supports in the form of a cone;

Stage 3: we finish painting the body of the packages and the porthole (circle) on it;

Stage 4: adjust, delete extra strokes with an eraser, paint the rocket at your discretion. For colorfulness, draw stars and a planet around.

This is roughly how it will look visually on paper:



The holiday of April 12 in Russia is the day of cosmonautics, and therefore, accordingly, we will draw something cosmic - either space itself, planets, the starry sky, satellites, or astronauts, rockets. If you have no experience in drawing, I suggest you use the step-by-step drawing schemes, use them as visual instructions. For example, you can draw such a drawing on a space theme - a rocket flying in space, against the background of stars and a planet.



Making the drawing in color will be much better. And here is a variant of drawing an astronaut in a cartoon version:



You can draw a desert surface of some planet and an astronaut on it. Good luck with your creativity!

April 12 is the day of cosmonautics. And of course, you can draw a rocket and an astronaut for this holiday, you can also draw a portrait of the first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin or a landing on the moon. And you can draw the first dogs of astronauts Belka and Strelka.

For Cosmonautics Day, you can draw a large inscription on April 12 or Cosmonautics Day. Next, you can draw a rocket, stars, famous astronauts, or glue photographs of famous people who are associated with space. You can draw an astronomy textbook. It is best to depict Yuri Gagarin on the poster.

For this holiday, they usually draw an astronaut, so I also advise you to draw your astronaut as you see him. And this video will help you with this, where the whole process of drawing and drawing an astronaut with steel will be shown step by step.

There are many options, for example, draw a portrait of Gagarin or draw space or the moon.

Astronautics is, first of all, a technique, in our case it is a rocket. Simple, hassle-free and easy to draw.





Rocket in the galaxy.



The drawings are easy enough to redraw on your own.

The figure for the Day of Cosmonautics should have everything that is connected with space and man.

Planets, rockets, astronauts, stars. You can draw a figurative drawing that everything is in the hands of a person: palms are holding the planet Earth.