My kids are as fascinated by outer space as I was at my age. Take some time to talk about some of the great historical moments in space travel or about what's happening currently.
Optional materials are a shoe box, string, sparkle glue, a picture of the child and tissue paper.
Colour pieces, as necessary. Cut out the pieces. For older kids, you can use a single piece of tinfoil and wrap it carefully around the template piece. For younger kids, it's likely easier to rip the tinfoil into one inch square pieces and let them glue those all over the template. Glue on decorations.