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Space at Home
Parties, kitchen-table experiments and the questions that come up at bedtime: space for families, written by the engineers who run the parties.
For primary schools
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Latest in Space at Home
20 Space Activities for Kids at Home (KS2)
Rockets, craters, Moon phases, a Mars habitat and a satellite with a budget: twenty activities with kit, timing and the science underneath, nothing from a specialist shop.
Celebrating World Space Week 2026 in Portsmouth with Build Your Rocket
World Space Week runs 4 to 10 October and this year it is about rockets. With Portsmouth City Council and Portsmouth Libraries we are running Build Your Rocket at Central and Southsea libraries on Saturday 10 October.
World Space Week Activities: One for Every Day of the Week
Seven World Space Week activities for kids, one a day from 4 to 10 October: build Sputnik, spot the space station, race a balloon rocket and finish with a launch. Nothing to buy.
Space Birthday Party Ideas That Actually Work for 6 to 11 Year Olds
One mission, one build, one launch. The space birthday party ideas we use at our own parties, by theme and by age, with the mistakes to avoid and a checklist to print.
Space Party Entertainers: What to Ask Before You Book
Nine questions that tell you more than a photo gallery, a comparison table you can fill in, and the red flags. We are one of the options; ask us too.
Planet, NASA or Astronaut? Choosing a Space Party Theme
Three different afternoons filed under one word. Which theme suits which child, what each looks like in a living room, and what goes in the party bag.
How to Make a Bottle Rocket at a Birthday Party (Safely)
A two-litre bottle, a cork, a bicycle pump and a set of rules everyone follows. The build the children do, the launch the adult runs, and what is actually happening.
12 Space Party Games You Can Run in a Living Room
Twelve space party games with almost no kit, in the order that keeps a crew of six to eleven year olds where you want them, and the one thing each game quietly teaches.
For parents
A space party they will talk about for months
We bring the rockets, the crew and the mess. You bring the cake and a room full of children.
