From fun, easy hands-on activities to short videos with everything you want to know about rockets.

Make a Model of a Rocket

An illustrated images that says "Craft Time: Make a Rocket." It is in whimsical font, with scissors and glue illustrated, suggesting it is for children.

Make A Carboard Tube Rocket

Make a simple rocket from a cardboard tube and construction paper.

Ages: 4+ | Time: 8 mins | Screen Free

The shape of a rocket composed of brightly colored construction paper shapes laid out against a black background.

Build a Construction Paper Rocket

Turn basic shapes into a rocket.

Ages: 6+ | Time: 30 min | Screen Free

 

A paper rocket on a straw in the foreground. A colander on carpet in the background.

Rocket Design Challenge

Build and test a rocket model that can reach a certain target.

Ages:  6+ | Time: 20-30 mins | Screen Free

Videos About Rockets

A whimsical illustration of four children in spacesuits driving along a foreign planet.

Story Time Video: Rockets and Rovers

Inside their rocket playground, a group of friends blast off in their imaginations. 

Ages:  4+ | Time: 6 min story, 4 min craft

A thumbnail image of three middle-aged white people making excited faces. Behind them are two photographs of rockets. In front of them is the text "Learn about rockets!"

On Air: All About Rockets

Explore the history of rockets, the legacy of Robert Goddard and how his experiments in rocketry ignited the public’s imagination in this video series for middle schoolers.

Ages: 11-14 | Time: 4-9 min videos

Rocket in the Vehicle Assembly Building

Videos: How Do Rockets Work? How Do They Take Us to the Moon?

Understand how rockets work and take a closer look at rockets used in the Apollo program for the first Moon landings, and what NASA is using for the Artemis program.

Ages: 11-14 | Time: 30 sec-4 mins videos

Experiments and Games About Rockets

A red balloon taped to a straw zooms along a string when the air is let out the back.

Balloon Rockets

Build a balloon rocket to explore rocket propulsion—the force that pushes rockets forward!

Ages: 9+ | Time: 20 mins | Screen Free

A digital illustration of a rocket ascending into space.

Rocket Lab

Engineer your own rocket.

Ages:  10+ | Time: 5 mins

A blue balloon attatched to an empty water bottle is inflated by the gases that were created in the bottle.

Baking Soda Balloon Blast Off

Launch a balloon with a safe chemical reaction. 

Ages:  10+ | Time: 5 mins | Screen Free