Activities
Eat Your Own Breakfast Moon
Use round waffles as your Moon. Ask kids to eat away at the edge to create the next Moon phases (be sure to take pictures along the way!) See if you can eat the waffles into these shapes: Full Moon, Waning Gibbous (just a little eaten off the side), Half Moon (3rd quarter), Waning Crescent, and NEW MOON (all gone!)
If you like sandwich cream cookies, try eating them into Moon phases as shown on this link from NASA.
Make Your Own Moon Journal
Use these links to create your own Moon Journal.
More Lunar Activities for Preschool and Early Elementary
The Astronomical Society of the Pacific has many great hands-on activities for kids of all ages. Some of my favorites are linked below. You can also find more on their Early Learners Page
Read Along Video Links
Read by Anna Hurst of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific in San Francisco, CA.
Read by Mike Hennessy of the Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh, PA.
Read by Jill Kary of the Arkansas State University Museum.
Read by Lou Papai of SciPort Discovery Center in Shreveport, LA.